Implicitly Apologetic


To give this documentary credit, it doesn't look and sound like something M. Moore could have made. Yet it is not quite impartial as it wants to come across. Not enough of the other side, especially businesses who lost their property, were presented. There was no mention of what those businesses had to go through after the loss of property, how those losses affected the property owners and their families, how many people lost their jobs, etc. The film makers took pains to humanize the terrorists, but not the victims.
As to identifying these vandals as terrorists, that's how they should be identified.They did organize to commit multiple acts of destruction. Whether it was directed toward human beings or property is irrelevant. The terminology however has to be more precise. They could be called property terrorists.
Another thing I'd like to point out is that this country does not have laws strict enough to protect private property. The sentences these terrorists received are laughable. Even with plea bargains, the smallest sentence shouldn't have been less than 20 years for each terrorist. They also should be obliged for life to repay the damages they caused.

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As said in the documentary itself, there are many definitions of terrorism and although targeting civilians is common among terrorists (something ELF was deliberately avoiding), what these guys did imo CAN be considered terrorism because it contained most of key characteristics of terrorism (i.e. violent, ideological in motives, attacks designed to send a message, conducted by an organization with a cell structure etc).

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