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Thread #83206 Message #1528364
Posted By: Little Hawk
25-Jul-05 - 11:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Unite Against Terror
Subject: RE: BS: Unite Against Terror
Uh-huh. About that smart. Well, like I said, who isn't against terrorism? Anyone being terrorized is against it, aren't they? Only problem is, they only think it's terrorism when it's done TO them or their chosen friends, not when it's done BY them or their chosen friends. All deliberate aggressions on other people and all attempts to cow other people into yielding their way of life to yours are terrorism. The number one proponents OF terrorism are and always have been national governments, and their mechanism for practicing it is warfare...economic warfare, diplomatic warfare, and full scale military warfare. Their common objective: material gain.
When the British romped all over Africa in the 1800's, for instance, massacring Native tribes with fast-firing Martini rifles...they were committing terrorism. Ask the Natives about it. They were certainly terrified. When the USA bombs people with B-52s the same thing is happening. Terrorism. For the USA to declare a "War On Terrorism" is as ironical as Stalin declaring a "War on Totalitarianism" would have been. It's a major case of the pot calling the kettle black.