Sjmarf to Today I [email protected]English • 2 months agoTIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographeren.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19arrow-up1349arrow-down13
arrow-up1346arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographeren.m.wikipedia.orgSjmarf to Today I [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square19
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•2 months agoWhy specify actual in such a way? Did those Greenpeace people get accused of terrorism?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•2 months ago Did those Greenpeace people get accused of terrorism? Only all the time. The press even coined the term ecoterrorism.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoThat’s interesting. I would’ve thought labeling stuff as terrorism was a newer thing, maybe early 2000s thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agowhile you got an answer related to Greenpeace from another poster, I was referring to the 1984-like fearmongering of western governments about vague threats of terrorism.
Why specify actual in such a way? Did those Greenpeace people get accused of terrorism?
Only all the time. The press even coined the term ecoterrorism.
That’s interesting. I would’ve thought labeling stuff as terrorism was a newer thing, maybe early 2000s thing.
Same as it ever was.
while you got an answer related to Greenpeace from another poster, I was referring to the 1984-like fearmongering of western governments about vague threats of terrorism.