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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (1976)7/20/2005 6:10:29 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541878
 
What would examples be of terrorism with no intent to protest?

It seems to me that, when protest turns to violence, particularly terrorism-type violence which targets those who aren't even the perpetrators of the grievance, the kernel of protest, while it still may be hiding in there somewhere, has been so overcome by something else that it is all but lost. The something else may be vengeance or plunder or war or whatever, but protest is no longer what it's about.

terrorist violence with no political rationale

I think it's important to distinguish between the grievance and the protest, which is the expression of the grievance. Just because the political rationale is there doesn't mean that what's happening is a protest. The grievance that triggered the protest has morphed into something else, like terrorism.
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