Category: Counter Extremism

Animal Rights, Counter Extremism

WANTED: Your Children for Animal Rising’s Training Camps

BY ALEXIA JAMES Terrorism involves violence or the threat of violence for political or ideological reasons, causing fear and disruption. While Animal Rising’s tactics are primarily disruptive, focusing on non-violent protests, some of their actions have caused significant disruption and damage and their civil disobedience methods have frequently resulted in its members being arrested. Their methods include graffiti, destruction of property, blockading and preventing food … Continue reading WANTED: Your Children for Animal Rising’s Training Camps

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Counter Extremism

The Dynamics of Political Extremism: A Critical Examination

BY MARK TAC Around two years ago, I was invited to contribute to an initiative led by John Woodcock, Lord Walney, to define extremism in politics. This study was inspired by Boris Johnson and proposed by my local MP, who was then the Secretary of State for Transport. At the initial meeting, I was eager to explore the fundamental definitions required for any academic study, … Continue reading The Dynamics of Political Extremism: A Critical Examination

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Counter Extremism, Thoughts

Only the Terrorist is Guilty

BY EFFIE DEANS Whenever there is a terrorist attack in somewhere like Israel, we are told by the BBC that it carried out by militants. It gives the impression that the far left from the 1980s stopped handing out newspapers to blow himself up. Only when a terrorist attack happens here in Britain will the BBC allow itself to describe it as such. IRA militants … Continue reading Only the Terrorist is Guilty

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Counter Extremism, countryside

The Modus Operandi of Sabs & Antis

BY SARAH GREENWOOD Animals are fast becoming the means of waging a proxy war between all the disparate ideological groups who have jumped on the ‘fur baby’ bandwagon on the one hand, and the exasperated and bemused real time carers of the aforementioned creatures on the other, along with the owners of the land upon which they live who have been forced into justifying their … Continue reading The Modus Operandi of Sabs & Antis

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Counter Extremism, countryside

Aubrey Thomas’ Hunt Sabs Ka-Ching

A website called Hunting Leaks – with links to the convicted fraudster Jay Tiernan* of Stop the Cull – is doxing hunt subscribers and their businesses. Extremists are encouraged to hassle those on the list. To justify its criminality, the group accuses the Countryside Alliance of holding a database on saboteurs – this, they insist, makes their action an appropriate response. Of course, if the … Continue reading Aubrey Thomas’ Hunt Sabs Ka-Ching

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