Masking Terrorism

Liberalman

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Mar 18, 2007
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Terrorism is on the rise here in north America but the police are hiding this by calling it everyday murder,

On September 11 2001 more than three thousand people died and the world was in shock.

Americans stopped spending money because they thought the end was near.

The economy was in turmoil.

The president had to tell Americans to start spending the economy can roll again.

Ever since that day terrorism was stopped or was it called something else.

In America people are stabbed, shot, blown up or just disappear from the face of the earth without a trace.

To Americans that is OK.

It’s OK if it’s drug related or if it is organized crime or gang related as long as it is not terrorism.

There has been more school shootings where more people are killed at once and it is accepted because it is not related to terrorism.

I can understand the journalists in America not printing the truth because they are afraid of being thrown in jail because of the Patriot Act.

Canadian journalists do not have that restraint but they are not ready to identify it as terrorism either.

When the new Conservative party is voted out of office I hope our Canadian journalists will feel more comfortable reporting what really is going on.

I guess freedom of the press was another casualty on that fateful September day in New York City.
 

flipside

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May 6, 2007
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Terrorism has always been here and always will be here..

Two wrongs do not make a right and an eye for an eye will eventually leave us all blind.

There are more mature, and effective ways to "fight" terror other than bombs and bullets. If your a childish bully you may feel an immediate retaliation is justified and it wouldn't matter if you caught "your" culprit and killed him as long as others saw your reaction and feared your retaliation.. and we all know who has the least friends.. a childish bully has none!
 

iARTthere4iam

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Jul 23, 2006
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Terrorism is one thing, rape, theft, assault, kidnapping are other things. Lumping all crime together and calling everything terrorism doesn't clarify the issue. You seem to assume that the US government is trying to cover up terrorism by labelling it something else, when it is clearly trying to keep the citizens on edge and concerned about terrorism occurring again. If people think terrorism is not happening or not going to happen soon people will not support the War on Terrorism. However if people believe that terrorism is just around the corner they will support any action that is necessary.
 

MikeyDB

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Jun 9, 2006
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Yes "terrorism" is the Bush bogeyman of choice after all...

America has kidnapped Afghanis and locked them up in jail in Cuba...

America has killed its own women and children in domestic incidents for years...beginning of course with the attempted extermination of the plains indian....no terrorism involved there...

America governments have lied to its people and manufactured consent for speading industrial and economic terrorism around the world...Nicaragua, East Timor, the Phillipines, Chile, the list is extensive...

"Terrorism" as concept is intended by the American to inspire fear dread and loathing of anything and anyone that fails to accept the absolute right of America and Americans to take what they want (natural resources) however they want (invasion and support of internecine turmoil, economic sanctions and embargoes...etc.) but one dare not call the American perspective on life as an American that holds the notion of "walk softly but carry a big stick"...as terrorism for gosh sakes...
 

thomaska

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May 24, 2006
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Yes "terrorism" is the Bush bogeyman of choice after all...

America has kidnapped Afghanis and locked them up in jail in Cuba...

America has killed its own women and children in domestic incidents for years...beginning of course with the attempted extermination of the plains indian....no terrorism involved there...

America governments have lied to its people and manufactured consent for speading industrial and economic terrorism around the world...Nicaragua, East Timor, the Phillipines, Chile, the list is extensive...

"Terrorism" as concept is intended by the American to inspire fear dread and loathing of anything and anyone that fails to accept the absolute right of America and Americans to take what they want (natural resources) however they want (invasion and support of internecine turmoil, economic sanctions and embargoes...etc.) but one dare not call the American perspective on life as an American that holds the notion of "walk softly but carry a big stick"...as terrorism for gosh sakes...

You left out the Destruction of Alderaan.:roll:
 

Twila

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I think that the definition of terrorism should be taken into account when trying to lump all crime under that heading.
According to the dictionary. Terrorism is:
1.the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes. 2.the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. 3.a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
I don't know too many drug dealers who apply terrorist tactics to their deals. Nor rapists, nor serial killers. Mass murders maybe, but definately not your average run of the mill crime of passion.
 

iARTthere4iam

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I think that the definition of terrorism should be taken into account when trying to lump all crime under that heading.
According to the dictionary. Terrorism is:
1.the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes. 2.the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. 3.a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
I don't know too many drug dealers who apply terrorist tactics to their deals. Nor rapists, nor serial killers. Mass murders maybe, but definately not your average run of the mill crime of passion.

Excellent point. One may have been "terrified" during a car accidentbut it is clearly not terrorism. Terrorism is a specific tactic to alter a situation politically. Terrorism must also be separated from war and guerilla warfare which may seem to share some characteristics.