Fair enough Art, I didn't mean to get on your case. Um, "hoards of paid missionaries clogging the sidewalk?" I don't think they're that careless with their money.   

"The incidents of spiked trees leading to injuries for loggers, for example, all turn out to be done by either mad property-rights advocates, or people trying to give environmental groups a bad name."
Nerd, do you have any references for these statements? Useful if they can be backed up. The very few examples on record BTW of people being injured by spiked trees occurred in sawmills, not to loggers. (because a logger fells a tree with a cut that is below and parallel to a hidden spike, but a sawmill blade can't miss it.)

It's slightly disingenuous to say that eco-terrorism flat out doesn't exist. But you are essentially right, such acts going beyond the area of destroying property are extremely rare. (However, destroying property frequently creates risk to people and animals...) There is a stupid game some people play though, which I have observed, "more-radical-than-thou", which mostly consists of people implying they're going to do things

Environmental activists generally have been on the receiving end of terrorism and violence, yet these incidents really get buried in the news. (e.g. Earth Firsters Judi Bari/Darryl Cherney's car being bombed with them in it, and later David Chain was killed by a falling tree.)

Willie-O