What do you know about the "Green Scare"?

Question

What do you know about the "Green Scare"?

Answer 1

shouldn't that be "Greens Care"?

edit;

wow thanks hala i learned something new. i didnt know there was a name for it, just that it happens. i saved your link.

Answer 2

Green Scare, is a term used by environmental activists referring to legal action by the U.S. government against the environmentalist movement. The term alludes to the Red Scare, periods of fear over communist infiltration of U.S. society.

The US government and its agencies employs repressive legislation such as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act to  attack the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front and those who publicly support them.

The term has now been used to describe an early 2006 sweep of arrests, convictions of alleged ELF/ALF activists on charges relating to acts of "environmental terrorism".

Recent repressive legislation and fear tactics are used by the government in attempt to turn environmental activists into "terrorists."

[edit]: no probs littlerobbergirl, i've learned heaps here on yahoo too.