by Jim Kouri, CPP
Sabotage, like any other weapon, offers its user an
amplification and extension of his own strength, both
to harm others and defend himself.
Sabotage has the additional appeal of destroying
much evidence of itself, and is usually hard to
prove.
Sabotage offers the indigenous malcontent or the
alien subversive the widest selection of targets,
the greatest opportunities for conversion, and
the most efficient results of any weapon available to
him. The saboteur need not be thought of as a wild-eyed,
shabbily-dressed foreigner out to
bomb buildings. The man who hesitates shooting a
competitor might have no qualms about burning that
man’s place of business. Moreover, sabotage motivated
by political or military objectives is usually planned
only after the target has been assessed through industrial
espionage and a detailed picture of vulnerabilities is
obtained.
A saboteur may be anyone in an organization of the target
industry,from a janitor in the machine shop to an
rgy inefficient vehicles. Perhaps the war in Iraq and the ensuing conflict are about oil.
Defenders of the war have (rightly) cited that the soldiers are defending our way of life. Would it not be a shame that primary lifestyle they are defending is not freedom or democracy, but the SUV?e they are defending is not freedom or democracy, but the SUV?
