A group of eco-terrorists in Mexico, whose goal is to end humanity as we know it, has been targeting scientists in their country who are involved in the realms of bio- and nanotechnology. In order to achieve their goal, members of the group wish to murder the scientists.
Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje (ITS) posted its manifesto on its blog Liberacion Total at the end of February.
Wired refers to ITS as "[a] violent fringe group with anarcho-primitivist views," saying that the organization's name "roughly translates to 'Individuals Tending to Savagery,' although 'Tending to the Wild' might be more exact."
Among other things, the ITS manifesto takes credit for a failed bomb attempt at the Biotechnology Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico whose target was a researcher at the facility.
More bombings are allegedly being planned, according to the manifesto, due to the fact that the Mexican scientists against whom ITS is waging its war "must pay for what they are doing to the Earth."
"We have said it before, we act without any compassion in the feral defense of Wild Nature," the manifesto says. "Did those who modify and destroy the Earth think their actions wouldn't have repercussions? That they wouldn't pay a price? If they thought so, they are mistaken."
ITS sees humanity's ever-growing interest/reliance on technology as the source of its own inevitable doom as well as major ecological disaster. ITS wants us to destroy all of our technology and go back to a hunter-gatherer society (the irony of the manifesto being published on the group's blog clearly being missed by its members).
"Nanotechnology is a particular scourge: Self-replicating nanobots will one day escape from laboratories to consume the Earth; and weaponization of nanotech is inevitable," says the manifesto, as relayed by Wired.
ITS first caught the attention of the public eye after August 2011's bombing of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico City left one robotics researcher seriously injured and burst the eardrum of a computer scientist there. An early version of the ITS manifesto was found among the charred rubble.
Though no arrests have yet been made in that case, ITS has taken credit for the 2011 shooting death of Ernesto Mendez Salinas, a biotechnology researcher, also of the National Autonomous University. The group claims Salinas' murder was its "first fatality," Wired reports.
The lateness of the claim, however, has police still believing Salinas' murder was related to a carjacking; however, by suggesting responsibility, ITS is putting out the message it is willing to kill for its cause.
Though Wired points out that "narco-terrorism ... has plagued Mexico for years," ITS clearly wants to up the ante.
The group's manifesto criticizes Finnish writer Pentti Linkola, who believes nuclear weapons should be used to "literally bomb the world back into the Middle Ages" for not going far enough, being that Linkola feels an "ecological dictatorship" should follow said catastrophe.
ITS is not interested in any dictatorship of any kind (aside from a symbolic one, apparently, that would ruthlessly foist its ecological agenda on the rest of the world).
"But what also has to be clear, is that there will be more attacks on those scientists," the manifesto warns. "There will be more attacks on their labs and institutions, they must pay what they are doing to the Earth, must accept and take responsibility for their actions and minutes after a bomb explodes in their face (if they survive) say: — I deserve it."
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