That's one to ponder.
Surely, the Boston Tea Party is looked upon as good.
I wonder if history will favor the EPR, a Mexican group of rebel terrorists who blew up oil pipelines in Mexico disrupting millions of dollars of activity going on in factories and plants run by multi-national corporations. Here's a cutting from [http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/07/11/mexico.gas.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories|a July 11, 2007 article] at CNN.com written by the fine folks at AP.org:
Honda, Hershey's and other multinational companies temporarily shut down their factories in western Mexico on Wednesday after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline.
The small, left-wing guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for the explosions issued a statement late Tuesday vowing to continue the attacks, while the Mexican government scrambled to increase security at "strategic installations" across Mexico.
At least a dozen companies including Honda Motor Co., Kellogg Co.'s, The Hershey Co., Nissan Motor Co., and Grupo Modelo SA were forced to suspend or scale back operations because of the lack of natural gas, the daily newspaper Excelsior reported. They said they faced millions of dollars in losses.
Vitro SAB, a Mexican company that makes glass containers, said the shutdown of two plants would cost it about $800,000 a day.
Of course to read about the terrorists, themselves, CNN does us the favor of burying their story toward the bottom so as to not accidentally inspire any sympathy for them from anyone but the most dedicated news readers. Here's what they would probably rather you not read:
The group that claimed responsibility for the explosions is the "military zone command of the People's Revolutionary Army," or EPR, a tiny rebel group that staged several armed attacks on government and police installations in southern Mexico in the 1990s, but was later weakened by internal divisions.
In a statement issued late Tuesday, the EPR said it was waging a "prolonged people's war."
"We have started a national campaign of harassment against the economic interests of the oligarchy and the anti-people government, and declare those interests as legitimate military targets," it said.
Wow.
They sound a bit like freedom fighters, don't they?
Like throwing tea overboard, they're fightin' the Man through His financial interests...
...and breaking laws and risking lives in the process.
I hope their goals are met before anyone gets hurt.
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