On last night's episode of the flag-waving, Patriot Act-pushing,
jingoistic NAVY NCIS on CBS, a so-called "ecoterorist" was featured as
the villain. This guy was supposedly the member of a radical animal
rights "cell," snuck aboard a submarine (virtually impossible), and
was going to release the toxic poison sarin gas into the sub's
ventilation system. Absurd, of course, but the true horror of this
episode was the blatant anti-animal rights, anti-dissent message, from
"Special Agent Gibbs" (Mark Harmon) suggesting that peaceful
protesters at a Navy base be "shot," to making the subject matter of
injurious sonar testing laughable. There was NO differentiation
between peaceful animal rights protesters and "domestic terrorists."
PLEASE boycott CBS programming, their sponsors, contact the show's
producer, spread the word, etc. This is post-Sept. 11, right-wing
paranoia (animal rights activist destroys nuclear submarine and its
crew) at its worst!
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