French activists disable SUV's

French activists targeting urban SUV owners. I just found this story compelling reading for some reason.

Under cover of night, Marrant's troops target Jeep Cherokees, Porsche Cayennes and other four-wheel-drive vehicles parked on the tree-lined avenues and cobblestoned lanes of wealthy neighborhoods. The eco-guerrillas deflate tires without damaging them, smear doors with mud and paste handbills on windshields proclaiming that the vehicles are dangerous, polluting behemoths that do not belong in the city.

"We use the mud to say that if the owners will not take the four-wheel-drives to the countryside, we will bring the countryside to the four-wheel-drives," ........

Although city leaders don't condone vandalism, officials have gone as far as proposing that Paris ban sport utility vehicles. Deputy Mayor Denis Baupin, who oversees transportation programs, has called the SUV "a caricature of a car."

(BIG WARNING: In the US you may be considered a terrorist if you support this type of action. The guy in California who started a fire at an SUV lot went down on terrorism charges. The Bush administration defines certain environmental(ELF) and animal rights groups(ALF) as terrorist. Not that I condone the actions of some of these groups, I don't want to be accused of supporting terrorism 'cause I could go to jail for that in Bush's America, but I find their investigation and prosecution under terror statutes an over stretch of the laws meant to protect the average citizen from a real threat. Sorry to take the fun and levity out of this, but this is the legal reality we live in.)