Yes, Mr. Amon, I have noticed that 12 young people have been charged with arson and conspiracy to commit arson — and I am ecstatic about the possibility that they might go to jail for the rest of their lives for their crimes (HCN, 4/17/06: Eco-terrorism and the trial of the century). You may want to lionize these criminals, these terrorists, but I won’t. You may want to make them out to be your heroes, but they are not heroic, and you are nothing more than a terrorist sympathizer.

R. Barry Crook
Aspen, Colorado

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Terrorist sympathizers

by R. Barry Cook, High Country News
May 15, 2006

<h1>Terrorist sympathizers</h1> <p class="byline">by R. Barry Cook, High Country News <br />May 15, 2006</p> <p>Yes, Mr. Amon, I have noticed that 12 young people have been charged with arson and conspiracy to commit arson — and I am ecstatic about the possibility that they might go to jail for the rest of their lives for their crimes (HCN, 4/17/06: <a href="320/16249">Eco-terrorism and the trial of the century</a>). You may want to lionize these criminals, these terrorists, but I won’t. You may want to make them out to be your heroes, but they are not heroic, and you are nothing more than a terrorist sympathizer. </p> <p> <b>R. Barry Crook</b><br /> Aspen, Colorado </p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189070">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Terrorist sympathizers</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-322/terrorist-sympathizers/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=112155&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-322/terrorist-sympathizers/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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