2010/2/19 Adam Maas <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:39 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Not true. No one denied the McVeigh and his Michigan MIlitia partners were >> terrorists. Trying to make the label a racial issue is ridiculous. >> >> The guy in the plane was a criminal. To say he's not a terrorist is merely a >> way of saying that as far as anyone can tell at this point, he's not >> connected to any group plotting against our government or any other >> government. He's just another angry taxpayer. >> Paul >> >> > > In addition, it should be notable that certain notorious terrorists > currently located in Chicago are quite seriously white (Bill Ayers and > his wife, late of the Weathermen) and pretty much all of the ELF and > related groups are white and very definitely terrorists, not to > mention Boston's favourites, the IRA. It's more an unfortunate > coincidence that most currently active terrorist groups tend to have > members who are darker of skin (although that's not always the case, > particularly with Islamics, alot of the Chechnyans involved in Islamic > terrorist groups are light-skinned, as are many Balkans or Persians, > and Arabs are also Caucasian, if generally on the darker side of the > spectrum) > > This attack does not appear to be a terrorist attack, in that it > doesn't appear to have been an attack designed to change government > policy by terrorizing innocent civilians. It appears to be a revenge > attack directly targeted on a particular organization by an angry and > not entirely well wrapped individual.
I quite agree with Paul and Adam except in that I don't consider the Chechnyan resistance terrorist. There is Chechnyan terror as well - too sadly so - and it is saddening to see the resistance also targeting civilians but my connotation of terror includes a cause that is from my point of view illegitimate - which of course is a very daring interpretation; I realize that -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
