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To My Mind, The Safest Ceremony On Earth

To My Mind, The Safest Ceremony On Earth

Meanwhile, Hyping Up The Elderly

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/05/25/memorial.security/index.html
This event will pose no threat to the brave and dutiful government willing to hype fear among, of all people, many of the nation's elderly, mostly survivors of the hellish ruins of postwar Europe. While a western patriot myself, I have no qualms in saying 'Al-Queda' has no track record for either a)killing a man in a wheelchair, and b) condoning and not condemning the killing of a man in a wheelchair. These heroes will have their ceremony and the nation will remember their payments for the world we lived in until 911. For them, we are and will be eternally grateful. That's why it's pure rubbish to use their time with the bogus terror threat. Some of you may remember my prediction/fact a while back stating there would be an attack on the US around late Sept. and Earlier October. I think it may be possible the attack will be on the US led coalition forces in Iraq. Something out of the ordinary. Imagine the coup for Bush and Co. if their troops were killed with dirty biological WMD or something of the sort. Not only would the WMD lie be vindicated (oh it had to come from some secret arsenal known only to a select few Hussein henchmen) but the national support for Bush would rocket, the world would come together for America as it had after 911, and this time, THIS time, someone will prod Bush and control him better this second term. No more of the mission accomplished excrement, or the poking under tables looking for the WMD. No more of that. Mark me.
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Reply #26 Top
I apologize for being rude on my response


I wasn't offended. No problem.

VES
Reply #27 Top

Collateral damage isn't terrorism.  It's sloppy and inefficent but it's not terrorism.

Terrorism, by definition, is the act of performing random acts of violence towards a civilian population for the express purpose of creating fear and uncertainty and is performed by persons with no definitive origin.

Al Qaeda wasn't targeting some person in the world trade center. They were simply murdering as many people as they could in the most arbitrary way to instill fear and panic amongst their enemies.

Moreover, if a military aircraft from country X wrongly bombs a building full of civilians in country Z then country Z has many options available to them.

Consider how much simpler things would be if the WTC had been attacked by say the government of Iran or some other nation state.

What's nice about nation states is that they are much easier to be held accountable.

The minute you give terrorists the same legitimacy as the governments of nation states you might as well throw up your hands and argue that criminals have their own legitimacy as well. Terrorists are just another form of violent criminal who have simply passed a threshold beyond what can be dealt with by civilian police forces effectively.

Reply #28 Top
The United States was founded by acts of "Terrorism". The rebels destroyed personal property, attacked soldiers of the "peacekeeping" force sent in by the world's superpower. They executed law abiding citizens.

Just so that everything can be put into a certain perspective.

Cheers
Reply #29 Top
Terrorism should have a basic, simple meaning. But everything is relative, isn't it? This article is about our government talking of the terror threat and measures taken to prevent attacks at a ceremony. It's about a government that tells it's citizens just how unsafe we are in our home homeland, so much so, that we have to have such intense security at such a ceremony. hmmm, Terror fear. Yep, it's all relative.