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Reply to Amity on "who's a terrorist?"
How do you arrive at that interpretation? The stated, and indicated, goal of most criminal activism of this sort is to stop the activities that the activists wish to see an end to.
Someone already replied very articulately, but I'll respond as well. The ideological objective she was trying to achieve was getting Toby Bradshaw to stop participating in genetic research for the timber industry. Clearly, they weren't stupid enough to believe that burning down his lab would somehow destroy his knowledge and disable his ability to do genetic research. This isn't a 1970s James Bond movie. Researchers don't keep all their "life's work" in isolated file cabinets. Briana and her friends were sending a message. They were trying to intimidate Bradshaw by destroying property associated with him. That's terrorism.