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...doesn't scare you or worry you? After a certain point, they look at my record and realize no amount of punishment will stop me from pursuing my goals. I generally get some kind of a penalty that I can live with, whether it's jail time or a fine that I refuse to pay. If you're afraid of the consequences, you can't really engage in civil disobedience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environmental Activist Mike Roselle | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...environmentalists never intended to seem extreme. Why do you think they have become seen that way? I don't think there's anything extreme about saving the whales from the whale hunters. I don't think there's anything extreme about saying we have to stop pumping carbon into the air. If we're extremists, so be it. The stakes are too high. If we want people to make sacrifices in their lives, then we environmentalists should also be willing to make sacrifices. Too many times [environmentalists] are high-paid people working in corporate offices, and they're living just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environmental Activist Mike Roselle | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

What's the longest time you've served in jail? Four months was the longest. [Police] tend to look at my record and realize that nothing they do is going to stop me from continuing in this recidivist pattern. Every time I go to court, you always see their eyes kind of light up when they look at my arrest sheet, which goes all the way back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environmental Activist Mike Roselle | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...highlighted some of what sets Beck outside the realm of fact-based, civil political discourse--notably his statement that the President has a "deep-seated hatred of white people." That statement is part of a consistent pattern of race-baiting by Beck. This summer, ColorofChange.org began asking advertisers to stop supporting Beck's TV show because our members are concerned about the way he stokes racial paranoia and fear with inflammatory rhetoric that's not based in fact. Dozens of companies listened and pulled their ads. It's clear that much of corporate America already knows the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...world without nuclear weapons, human beings were killing one another with such feverish efficiency that they couldn't keep track of the victims to the nearest 15 million. Over three decades of industrialized war, the planet averaged about 3 million dead per year. Why did that stop happening? (See the top 10 Obama-backlash moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want Peace? Give a Nuke the Nobel | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

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