Someone's eco-terrorist is someone else's eco-freedom fighter

You can remove eco.

well yes, that's the original quote.

so much wasted money that could have been used to fix the road instead. But proving whatever point they had was better in their minds

There was a case in the US some months, maybe a year or two ago where some stairs in a park were garbage for too long due to red tape BS. Some guy just said fuck it and build new ones. PT construction, standard deck type construction. Same stuff you see in all sorts of nature preserve land, state forests, etc, and that the useful idiots who I will mention in a minute love to circle jerk about being "low impact" in environmental contexts.

And how did HN respond? Well of course everyone the comment section were screeching about how the sky was gonna fall because he didn't pay his way through an environmental impact assessment, he should get the electric chair as a warning to other vigilantes, etc, etc, etc. Basically a bunch of ideological jerks who were pissed that he made the .gov look back.

It's not right but it's at least understandable that the municipality themselves were pissed that he did it because it made them look bad (which is the reason the story went viral in the first place) but it's a whole 'nother degree of bad moral character to be not just pissed off in this unjustifiable way, but to be pissed off in this unjustifiable way on someone else's behalf.