Urban warfare !

This week Greenpeace activists broke into a CSIRO facility in Canberra and used weed whackers to destroy a test crop of GM modified wheat.    These activists wore overalls clearly bearing the Greenpeace logo and it was their intention to eliminate whatever scientific data this test crop would provide.

There is a mixed reaction to GM modifications to food across the community and the government has tasked the CSIRO to determine fact from fiction.  We live in a world with an expanding population and it is becoming critical that we must increase the food supply.   Clearing more land for agriculture risks destroying the very means of absorbing carbon, hence to achieve balance we need to breed more productive crops from the existing acreage - and that is where GM can make the difference.

The objections are many.  Some fear GM crops may escape and contaminate traditional varieties.  Some fear agricultural giants such as Monsanto gaining a monopoly on crop strains.  Some think GM food will adversely affect human health.    Much of this could be totally irrational - but the one way to prove or disprove these objections is to make scientific investigations - and that Greenpeace seeks to destroy.

There is little difference between urban terrorists breaking into a government facility to destroy legitimate science and hackers breaching government archives to steal secrets and disrupt communications - and all of that is just a short step to activists setting bombs and trying to destroy property and people in an attempt to gain their objectives.

The terrorist creed is that " the end justifies the means ".   If we accept that, then we accept anarchy.

Law and order needs to make a point - and hunt down and prosecute these Greenpeace activists.  All forms of terrorism need to face the full strength of the law.