Anarchists Killed Nanotech Scientist in “Feral Defense of Wild Nature”

10 March 2013

[eds. note: the fol­low­ing arti­cle is from a pro busi­ness, mil­i­tary and defense jour­nal]  by Busi­ness Insid­er Mil­i­tary and Defense

10 March 2013

[eds. note: the fol­low­ing arti­cle is from a pro busi­ness, mil­i­tary and defense jour­nal]  by Busi­ness Insid­er Mil­i­tary and Defense

An Anar­chist ter­ror group call­ing them­selves “Indi­vid­u­als Tend­ing Toward Sav­agery” (ITS) has recent­ly claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for a high pro­file attack on a sci­en­tist two years ago, and made sev­er­al death threats, accord­ing to reports.

Dr. Ernesto Mén­dez Sali­nas, a biotech­nol­o­gy expert, was shot and killed in 2011, but until this admis­sion his death was large­ly attrib­uted to the gen­er­al rise of vio­lence in Mex­i­co, and even lat­er attrib­uted to a rash of car jack­ings.

The ITS fol­lowed its shock­ing claim of respon­si­bil­i­ty by issu­ing threats against any promi­nent researchers in the field of nano and biotech­nol­o­gy, whom they plan to take out with Ted Kaczyn­s­ki-like tac­tics. (A par­tic­u­lar hero of theirs.)

The rea­sons for doing so: Uncon­trol­lable pro­lif­er­a­tion of nano-par­ti­cle “goo” that will con­sume the earth in a man-made, micro­scop­ic apoc­a­lypse.

The group has claimed bomb attacks in the past, but how many are theirs is unclear. The anar­chists say they’ll either take respon­si­bil­i­ty for attacks months lat­er or not all. For one such unclaimed “attack,” which killed 20 peo­ple, they say the gov­ern­ment is sup­press­ing infor­ma­tion.

From a blog ded­i­cat­ed to the group:

The explo­sion in the Pemex tow­er (for exam­ple) in Jan­u­ary 2013, which left 20 dead and hun­dreds wound­ed, shows what “evi­dence” the gov­ern­ment and the media are going to make known. Lies upon lies.

The gov­ern­ment report­ed that the explo­sion was the result of a bro­ken gas line. ITS has claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty, though there’s no evi­dence avail­able to prove their claim.

Nonethe­less, until nan­otech­nol­o­gy is stopped, they vow to con­tin­ue.

“We have said it before, we act with­out any com­pas­sion in the fer­al defense of Wild Nature. Did those who mod­i­fy and destroy the Earth think their actions wouldn’t have reper­cus­sions? That they wouldn’t pay a price? If they thought so, they are mis­tak­en,” they said in a state­ment after the most recent attack.