On the face of it, this a crazy classification by UK authorities. They also claim to have retracted it. But how did this happen in the first place? Devil's advocate argument: I do understand how...
On the face of it, this a crazy classification by UK authorities. They also claim to have retracted it. But how did this happen in the first place?
Devil's advocate argument: I do understand how governments value the existing energy supply chain. Not only is the petro-economy extremely significant, but the world's militaries also run on petroleum. A disruption to this flow may be considered a nat sec threat.
In my personal view that is a really short-sighted stance, but this is an interesting event which brings up questions of how sternly anti-carbon groups will be treated in the near term.
On the face of it, this a crazy classification by UK authorities. They also claim to have retracted it. But how did this happen in the first place?
Devil's advocate argument: I do understand how governments value the existing energy supply chain. Not only is the petro-economy extremely significant, but the world's militaries also run on petroleum. A disruption to this flow may be considered a nat sec threat.
In my personal view that is a really short-sighted stance, but this is an interesting event which brings up questions of how sternly anti-carbon groups will be treated in the near term.
Here's an article covering one of those inflitrators into the Standing Rock protest groups that was posted to tildes ~ a year ago.
https://tildes.net/~enviro/9js/the_infiltrator_a_former_marine_working_for_the_private_security_firm_tigerswan_infiltrated_an