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<p>[quote user="tree68"]<span style="color:#003300;font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;">Negligence is a crime, especially with such a dire outcome.  </span></p> <p><span style="color:#003300;font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;">Terrorism wouild require an overt act, and so far, there's been no mention of such an action by anyone that I've heard.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#003300;font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;">Besides, terrorists rarely can keep quiet for long - they've got to make sure everyone gets their point.</span></p> <div style="clear:both;">[/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;">  <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I am not saying that I believe it was terrorism.  But I will say that I believe it is foolish to rule it out without any reason, or rule it out just because there is no direct evidence of it yet.  Let the evidence take this where it may. </span></p> </div> <div style="clear:both;"> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I am not sure what you mean when you say that terrorism would require an overt act.  If this train wreck was sabotage, I would say the train wreck was certainly an overt act.  Some may quibble with the term “terrorism” as it would apply to sabotaging an oil train.  I would simply call it sabotage in the name of a cause. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">But you don’t have to look too hard to see that there is bitter opposition to oil trains.  It is not just the way it has always been either.  The opposition to oil is clearly is convinced that the destruction of the planet is sure to happen as a result of burning fossil fuels, and they are quite energized to do something about it.  And they are particularly energized because fracking and tar sand oil has suddenly exponentially increased the potential supply.  So the opposition feels especially threatened by this sudden ramp up in oil production.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I would not discount the possibility of this type of sabotage for the cause just because nobody has taken credit for it yet.  There would be no need to take credit for it.  In fact, it might be more effective to not let the world know that it was sabotage.  I say that because the usefulness of such sabatoge by the anti-oil train faction would be to show the world that shipping oil by rail is too dangerous.   Admitting that it was sabatoge would undermine that objective.  Wrecking a train does not show that trains are dangerous if it is revealed that the wreck was intentionally caused.    </span>    </p> </div>
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