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Firstly, destuctive activity like this has been proven NOT to do anything positive, so the act itself, other than being destructive, is also counter-productive at the same time.
Secondly, the negative environmental impacts of these fires, as has already been intoned, makes me wonder if these people really have a clue about a long range plan. If they do not, maybe they are just lashing out, which makes them either not smart enough to listen to, or too excited to listen to, Either way, I can't listen to them.
Thirdly, they are not terrorists, they are arsonists. You can call them names if you want, and you can hope that bad things happen to them, and you can try to help get the full weight of the legal process in your jureisdiction to be laid upon them. In the face of the ridiculous acts that created a real danger to life, all of these reactions are acceptable. However, to call them terorists is to call a hang-nail "life-altering" or a hole in the sidewalk as "life-threatening."
The word terrorist is the American word du jour because the sheer horror of 9/11 has put that word into the consciousness. But to use the word whenever someone lashes out is totally inappropriate, and absolutely innaccurate. Leave the extreme words for the extremists, and try to understand and accept the english language without watering it down with inapproriate pathos.
Peace,
Pierre
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