Suppose these folks describe themselves as conservatives?
Activists Trash Research Facility
By Aviva L. Brandt
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, June 7, 2000; 6:27 a.m. EDT
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A group of activists whose stated mission is to make life miserable for companies developing genetically engineered grass for golf courses caused more than $300,000 in damage at a grass-seed research facility.
A group calling itself the Anarchist Golfing Association slipped into Pure-Seed Testing Inc. on Sunday night and stomped experimental grass plots, destroying a decades' worth of work.
The group took responsibility for the vandalism in an e-mail boasting about the attack to the company president.
However, the grass destroyed at Pure-Seed was grown using ancient techniques of plant breeding, not genetic engineering, company owner Bill Rose said.
"That's natural breeding. They actually destroyed what they purport to be supporting," said Rose, who estimated the damage at $300,000 to $500,000.
"They pulled and threw and stomped and mixed labels and threw away labels and did everything they could to destroy things," Rose said. They even painted the fuse box black so workers would be unable to read the labels.
"They certainly knew what to do to do the most damage," Rose said.
washingtonpost.com
Hard to decide which revolution is more important- digital or biological.
This country (and the world) is going through a period of great change, mostly fueled by feedback loops in digital technology. Many people will need to adjust to the changes whether they want to or not. I see much of the conservative movement of today to be similar to the Granger movement 100 years ago. At that time large groups of small farmers resisted the changes of the industrial revolution. They didn't stop it, they never had a chance, it was a worldwide feedback loop. I can't predict the nature of our society in the coming decades, but I'm pretty sure the clock isn't rolling back to 1950. |
