Rethinking "Terrorism" - Who wields terror today? Think about it.

[kpete]

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Rethinking "Terrorism"

People aren't terrorists just because we don't like 'em and would like to lock 'em up. They have to willfully inspire terror.
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Terror? Maybe the White House aides whom I saw scrambling out like rats on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, were frightened by the 18 fanatically misguided Muslims who in suicide attacks flew planes straight into several buildings.

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Who wields terror today? Think about it.

Al Qaeda doesn't care what Americans feel. These fanatically theocratic Muslims believe in wiping out Western liberal (and illiberal) democracy, along with Western humanistic mores that go back to the Renaissance, off the face of the Earth.

The only people who stand to gain from terror, politically and economically, are George W. Bush, Richard Cheney and their associates. Oh, yes, and the cops everywhere who act like they're rushing to smoldering Downtown Manhattan seven years ago every time someone doesn't halt quite long enough at a stop sign.

more at:
http://cecilieaux.blogspot.com/2008/02/rethinking-terrorism.html

[stellanoir]

1. Keith spelled it out really clearly last eve.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x93692

Powerful stuff.