Environmentalists to terrorists

[abdulaziz]

When did they become the equivalent of terrorists, and I’m referring to what happened yesterday outside the houses of parliament, also I love the new term they have come up with to justify it all "Direct action" WTF!

Get the riot police in there and beat them senseless please

[V8mate]

Since when is 'direct action' a new term? The Trots have been using it for years.

[abdulaziz]

I only started hearing it recently actually, couple the Heathrow thing, then the power station thing, maybe I’m not paying enough attention to them

[Don]

Direct Action: i.e. demonstrating, shouting, civil disobedience etc is one thing. Terrorism is another.

To really be a terrorist you must adopt the tactics of terror: intimidation, threats and violence.

So, for example, PETA has a significant minority of supports willing to conduct terrorism. The sort of people who hound people who work for companies that might once have worked with another company that once did business with Huntingdon Life Sciences and so on.

These people should be locked up in the Guantanamo Bay equivalent and harmed frequently.

To be honest I view that as being harsh if one is simply exercising one's right to demonstrate.

Were this lot particularly using "Tactics of Terror"? Or were they dressing up in silly costumes and running about more like Fathers for Justice?