I rather like homicide bomber. It distinguishes between the guy who just wants to blow himself up (wish there were more of those), and the guy who wants to blow a lot of other people up. So I really like homicide bomber and will use that in future.
Political protest seems to me a very big umbrella, and covers folks who are peaceful, folks who run amuck (breaking windows, throwing rocks at policemen, etc), and folks who firebomb, blow up statues, blow up buildings, or blow up other people. All of these things are political protest, imo. I don't know how anyone could argue that going after symbolic political targets is not a form of political protest. It's a violent form of political protest, but is is obviously political and most certainly protest.
"2: express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country" [syn: resist, dissent]"
It's hard to get more "oppositional" that terrorism.
protest
n 1: a formal and solemn declaration of objection; "they finished the game under protest to the league president"; "the senator rose to register his protest"; "the many protestations did not stay the execution" [syn: protestation] 2: the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent [syn: objection, dissent] 3: the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval; "he shouted his protests at the umpire"; "a shower of protest was heard from the rear of the hall" v 1: utter words of protest 2: express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country" [syn: resist, dissent] 3: affirm or avow formally or solemnly; "The suspect protested his innocence" |
