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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Sure, not defending him at all, but to me terrorism, at it's core is fucking with people's belief in their safety during a normal moment. The van today, that was terrorism, the car was fucked up, but under that definition it is something else, the protesters knew they might be in harm's way.
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I disagree with your definition. I would call it non-state-sponsored political violence. If the 9/11 hijackers had issued a threat to bomb the WTC, it would still have been terrorism.
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Nazi Germany wasn't "terrorism" it was a country killing millions. And I don't know, I'm a dim bulb, and definitions don't mean much to me, and my fam is Jewie, I ain't immune to the Charlotteville hate, but the two seem different, not in degree of evil, but in spreading fear to peeps generally?
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Sure. In one case, part of the intent might be to tell people that if they protest they won't be safe. In the other case, part of the intent might be to tell people that they're never safe. Each is evil in its own way.
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