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         MindNet Journal - Vol. 1, No. 69
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         V E R I C O M M / MindNet         "Quid veritas est?"
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    The views and opinions expressed below are not necessarily the
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    The following is reproduced here with the express permission of
    the author, Jeff Jacoby.

    Permission is given to reproduce and redistribute, for
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    Editor: Mike Coyle

    Assistant Editor: Rick Lawler

    Research: Darrell Bross

    Editor's Note:

    Propaganda -- whether it is liberal or conservative -- is just
    that -- propaganda. It serves to distort the truth, and to
    control the attitudes of society.

    The following author presents here an excellent example of how
    double standards can be promoted by the press, and used to
    condition an unwitting public.

    Propaganda is the most effective form of mind control.

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    ARE ENVIRONMENTALISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UNABOMBER?

    By Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe

    April 23, 1996

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       That perfect silence you hear is the environmental movement
    not being blamed for the crimes of the Unabomber. It is
    President Clinton not calling a press conference to denounce the
    purveyors of hate and division on the ecological fringe. It is
    the Sunday-morning Beltway pundits not accusing environmental
    activists of inflaming an unstable creep like Theodore
    Kaczynski, the Unabomber suspect. It is editors in America's
    great newsrooms not assigning long takeouts on radical groups
    like Earth First, which blow up logging equipment and demand the
    blood of environmental "villains" -- like those the Unabomber
    killed.
       There's no disputing the pull of militant environmentalism on
    the mind of the Unabomber. His own writings cite "anarchist and
    radical environmentalist journals" to justify attacks on "the
    industrial-technological system," and he obviously drew his
    victims from the  demonology of green extremists. Two examples:
       (*) At a 1994 Earth First meeting in Missoula, Mont., the
    public-relations giant Burson-Marsteller was excoriated for
    supposedly having helped Exxon recover from the Valdez oil spill
    disaster. Kaczynski attended that meeting. One month later,
    Thomas Mosser, a former Burson-Marsteller executive, was killed
    by a bomb mailed to his home. In a letter to the New York Times,
    the Unabomber claimed credit. "Among other misdeeds," he
    wrote, "Burston-Marsteller [sic] helped Exxon clean up its
    public image after the Exxon Valdez incident."
       (*) In a 1989 tract called "Live Wild or Die," a group of
    enviro-nihilists put out an "Eco-[expletive] Hit List." No. 1
    on the list was the Timber Association of California. Last year,
    the Unabomber addressed an explosive to the association at its
    Sacramento headquarters -- unaware that it had been renamed the
    California Forestry Association. Gilbert Murray, the group's
    president and a father of three, opened the package. He died on
    the spot.
       So isn't it odd that the nation's opinion makers aren't
    skewering environmentalists for the Unabomber's long trail of
    death and mayhem?
       Isn't it curious that editorial writers and "Nightline"
    producers aren't hyping Kaczynski's connection to the
    eco-fanatics? Isn't it strange that we're not being reminded
    that deadly rhetoric can fuel deadly deeds -- that when
    environmental advocates put timber executives on a "hit list,"
    they are encouraging psychopaths to blow up timber executives?
       Well, no, it isn't strange. It would be absurd to blame decent
    environmentalists for the Unabomber's murders. Just as it would
    have been absurd to blame decent conservatives for the horror in
    Oklahoma City. Or decent pro-lifers for the killing of abortion
    doctors.
       Whoops. Did somebody say ..."double standard?"
       Twelve months ago, when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were
    arrested for the bombing in Oklahoma City, it was open season on
    anything right-of-center. President Clinton slammed conservative
    talk show hosts as "promoters of paranoia" who "spread hate"
    and "leave the impression that ...violence is acceptable."
    Washington Post pundit David Broder observed, "The bombing
    shows how dangerous it really is to inflame twisted minds with
    statements that suggest political opponents are enemies." A
    Scripps Howard wire story was headlined: "Did National Rifle
    Association Ads Spark Bombing?"
       Even the Republican Party found itself charged with the
    terrorism in Oklahoma City.
       When House Speaker Newt Gigrich arrived to pay his respects,
    a reporter asked him whether the GOP victory in 1994 had led to
    the atrocity. Columnist Carl Rowan echoed that slur. "Unless
    Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, 'Am I inflaming a
    bunch of nuts?'" he said, "you know we're going to have more
    events" like the attack on the Murrah Building.
       The same phenomenon was at work four months earlier, when John
    Salvi opened fire on two Brookline abortion clinics, killing two
    women.
       "The National Right to Life Committee, the Pro-Life Action
    League, and Operation Rescue ...are responsible for these
    shootings," snarled Kim Gandy of the National Organization for
    Women.
       "Despite the claims of pro-lifers," the Boston Globe
    editorialized, "yesterday's murders were not merely the acts of
    a deranged individual."
       Planned Parenthood blasted the "inflammatory rhetoric" of
    pro-lifers "that fostered this climate of fear and violence."
    One syndicated columnist (my colleague Ellen Goodman) declared:
    "The mainstream antiabortion rhetoric that calls abortion
    murder has led many, step by step, to the 'logical' conclusion
    that killing a 'killer' is justifiable homicide.. ..It's not
    surprising that as the whole army moves toward the extreme, a
    flank will carry the message over the edge."
       He who says X must say Y. Either Al Gore, Earth First, and
    Greenpeace had a hand in the Unabomber's killings -- or Newt
    Gingrich, the NRA, and Rush Limbaugh's radio show didn't cause
    the carnage in Oklahoma City. If John Salvi is the product of
    "mainstream antiabortion rhetoric," then Theodore Kaczynski
    was spawned by mainstream environmentalists.
       _Every_ movement has its kooks and degenerates. To blame the
    left for the atrocities of the Unabomber would be shameless.
    Even as it was shameless to blame the right for the crimes in
    Brookline and Oklahoma City.

    Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for the Boston Globe. His e-mail
    address is .

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