David's Snippets, Part Two
Terrorism: The calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimindation or coercion or instilling fear.
Terrorism: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
These are two definitions of terrorism (I got from them dictionary.com) that I believe most people would agree are pretty accurate. I tend to agree with the first definition more because it specifically mentions civilians and leaves out damage against property (but I guess it's possible that some people stay awake at night utterly horrorified that someone might key their car).
Anyways, the reason that I point this out is that is because it definitively shows that the United States is a terrorist organization. There is no debate that the United States of America has committed acts of terrorism. In fact, the USA is responsible for the two largest terrorist attacks in the history of civiliziation (the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) which killed a combined total of about a quarter of a million Japanese civilians.
In the United States' defense, most of its time is not spent committing international acts of terror against its enemies, and it is by no means the only group that uses terrorism as a means of attaining political goals. In fact, almost every government that has ever existed has used terrorist methods to control either its domestic of foreign enemies (and even friends). The United States is simply the most powerful nation on earth, and therefore is quite possibly the most effective at utilizing terrorism to attain its political goals. Also, since the US theoretically has other, more humane ways to "convince" people, it seems less reasonable for it to use terrorism than, say, a poor Palestinian who has no political or economic power and really nothing to lose (or gain).
Terrorism: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
These are two definitions of terrorism (I got from them dictionary.com) that I believe most people would agree are pretty accurate. I tend to agree with the first definition more because it specifically mentions civilians and leaves out damage against property (but I guess it's possible that some people stay awake at night utterly horrorified that someone might key their car).
Anyways, the reason that I point this out is that is because it definitively shows that the United States is a terrorist organization. There is no debate that the United States of America has committed acts of terrorism. In fact, the USA is responsible for the two largest terrorist attacks in the history of civiliziation (the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) which killed a combined total of about a quarter of a million Japanese civilians.
In the United States' defense, most of its time is not spent committing international acts of terror against its enemies, and it is by no means the only group that uses terrorism as a means of attaining political goals. In fact, almost every government that has ever existed has used terrorist methods to control either its domestic of foreign enemies (and even friends). The United States is simply the most powerful nation on earth, and therefore is quite possibly the most effective at utilizing terrorism to attain its political goals. Also, since the US theoretically has other, more humane ways to "convince" people, it seems less reasonable for it to use terrorism than, say, a poor Palestinian who has no political or economic power and really nothing to lose (or gain).
posted by Denial so Fragile it Fractures at 3:44 PM
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