New Movie Called 'Soft Core Eco-terrorism' for Kids

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New Movie Called 'Soft Core Eco-terrorism' for Kids

"Hoot's so-called harmless 'mischief' is training a generation to look cute while burning homes and cars and stores. Eco-terrorism is serious. Eco-terrorism is arson and pipe bombs and hate that hurts people and destroys lives," Arnold said. He had not yet seen the film when interviewed by Cybercast News Service."


By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
May 01, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - Three middle school children band together, sabotage a construction site, gag a land developer and take him hostage. But their criminal conduct, aimed at saving the habitat of burrowing owls from "greedy land developers" isn't reality-based.

It's the subject of a new movie that one entertainment reviewer labels "soft core eco-terrorism" for kids.

The movie, "Hoot," opens Friday May 5. It features environmentally conscious teenage characters vandalizing heavy machinery by stealing parts off of them and flattening tires in order to hinder a development project.

The teens, who ultimately succeed in halting the project, spray paint a police car that is providing security, trespass, rip up surveyors' stakes, place alligators in portable toilets, release poisonous Cottonmouth snakes at the construction site and evade the police. The teenagers also debate stealing the construction trailer and sinking it into a nearby canal to further delay the project.

The teenagers in the PG-rated movie face no repercussions for the illegal acts and instead are portrayed as heroically preventing the construction of a pancake house in South Florida to save the owls' habitat. There are consequences, however, for the pancake company.

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New Movie Called 'Soft Core Eco-terrorism' for Kids

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Hollywood continues doing what it does best  .....  undermine the morality of the world.

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Boys, 10 and 12, Are Charged in Brush Fires
From Times Wire Reports


Two boys were charged with setting weekend brush fires that burned more than 1,500 acres in southwest Florida, authorities said. More than two dozen homes were destroyed or damaged.

The boys, 10 and 12, were charged in Lehigh Acres with intentional and reckless burning of land, a third-degree felony. They were charged as juveniles, said Lt. Robert Forrest of the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

Both were being held at the county juvenile detention center, he said. Authorities were seeking a third youth.

The blaze was 75% contained Sunday afternoon but firefighters worried that wind and rising temperatures could stoke hot spots, said Gerry LaCavera, a state wildfire specialist.