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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Lane3 who wrote (2521)7/29/2005 1:17:07 PM
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Of course anyone can be terrorised by any number of fear producing phenomena. I was referring to a specific act intended to cause fear in innocent people in order to leverage influence over one's enemy. If that doesn't qualify then nothing does. I have no doubt the term will be morphed into irrelevance before we go much further.

Currently right wing extremists are fond of labeling any enemy force as terrorists. Left wing extremist are fond of justifying away terrorist action by finding alternative circumstantial motives and explanations for the behavior.

Wont be long until the term itself represents nothing more than a convenient excuse to objectify someone you want to pick on ... are we there yet?
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