Eco- freaks like these are indeed the cruelest and most hateful people you'll meet outside of Jihadists.
Many of them are indeed terrorists, bent on imposing their psychotic worldview on all around them, and will stoop to any depth, including violence and murder, to achieve that.
Their crimes are not reported more often because the liberal media sympathizes with them. It's why Hollywood movies are much more likely to have an evil corporate boogeyman type as a villain than an ecoterrorist villain.
This is an example of Prod identity and enviro politics coming into conflict, though I doubt it will redound much on the D Party.
On one hand, the boy is a member of an indigenous people group, who have an internationally recognized right to hunt whales for food.
On the other hand, the shave-the-whales enviro-mob use whales as a high-grade enviro-sacred-symbol. So they don't much care about the ethnic heritage of humans or their internationally recognized rights.
Don't forget, the island where the boy lives is technically a part of Alaska, and ever since Sarah Palin first came into national attention in summer of 2008, ultra- liberals have rabidly hated anything having to do with that state.
