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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (1976)7/20/2005 5:49:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541735
 
Terrorism can be an attempt to intimidate, either for money or to get political power, or to achieve some other end.

If it is a protest it has to be in response to something. Terrorism doesn't have to be a response to anything. Terrorism is largely done for intimidation effect, but intimidation doesn't have to involve terrorism. You can threaten someone directly, or through hints without fitting under any standard definition of terrorism. (I would use "causing terror" as a definition. Otherwise you have to say hurricanes and earthquakes where terrorism.)

If you kill or injure civilians in order to terrorize other people in to giving you what you want (money, power, political change) than you could be considered to have committed terrorism. The exact boundaries might be fuzzy but not so fuzzy as to invalidate the point.


I tried to think about historical examples of systematic terrorist violence with no political rationale and can't come up with any.

"Not a protest", does not equal "no political rationale".

Also "terrorism" doesn't equal "historical examples of systematic terrorist violence". Terrorism can be non-systematic. And you can talk about terrorism that hasn't happened yet and thus is not historical. If your talking about the meaning of the word hypothetical terrorism is as relevant as historical terrorism.

Tim
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