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2/27/2003 10:15:00 PM | Timothy Nader favors pre-emptive action to take out nuclear reactors? But the Green Party counts on short memories. In 2000 it crowned Ralph Nader, the noted "consumer advocate" and most famous of non-Muslim Arab-Americans, its presidential nominee, and he too roared against pre-emption. But back in 1977, Nader had different views. Interviewed by New York City's Village Voice in its April 4, 1977, issue, he defended violence in words he now would probably like the country to forget. "What activists [attacking nuclear reactors] are trying to do is make new law based on the settled Anglo-Saxon tradition of self-defense," Nader said. "That is, if someone tries to break into your house you can retaliate lawfully. In the case of a nuclear reactor, the self-defense is projective. But what are you going to do: Wait until radioactivity is all over the place? Shouldn't you destroy property before it destroys you? Here you are violating a minor law to get judgment on a more important one." Now let's not get into side arguments. Nuclear reactors do not spew radioactivity all over the place. That's just one of environmentalism's standard fictions. Some 80 percent of France's energy generation is nuclear, but its people aren't dying like flies. What is interesting in the context of today's debate is that Nader was defending terrorist pre-emptive action by a small group of malcontents, yet he deplores such action by the president of the United States to prevent a nuclear and/or biological holocaust. From Insight Magazine (yep, owned by the same company that runs the conservative Washington Times) I got this link from politicaltheory.info, a new Arts and Letters Daily-type webpage, but linking to specific topics relating more to political theory. (Also, they also just linked to my Nation article) perma link |
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