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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (10637)	10/9/2001 5:28:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

<Who/what else should be on the list? > French state terrorism [Rainbow Warrior photographer murder in 1985 in my peaceful little harbour]. Palestinian terrorism Hamas terrorism Libyan terrorism Saddam Hussein terrorism USA Militia terrorism [eg, Tim McVeigh] USA school kid terrorism [lots of them] Gangster terrorism [most countries] Maori terrorism [hasn't started yet - I'm getting in first] ... and more... Mqurice

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (10637)	10/9/2001 6:36:14 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I agree wholeheartedly that terrorism in Northern Ireland is terrorism - period. I don't know anything at all about Basque separatism. My husband informed me last night that US Senator Teddy Kennedy, brother of former president Jack Kennedy, had been instrumental in getting rid an immigration law which formerly prohibited people with terrorist organizations from immigrating - as is well known, he supports the IRA. I think Teddy Kennedy is a big, fat, stupid idiot. I am presently reading a book about the Boston "Tea Party." While I was waiting for SI to load, this is what I read: "It was a quasi-military action, the boldest and most dangerous in Boston up to that time. The first 'body' meetings authorized military action: an armed watch on Griffin's Wharf to prevent the tea from being landed. When Samuel Adams told the meeting he had armed himself, townspeople followed suit; there was not a pistol to be bought anywhere in town." The difference between then and now is that the target of the Boston "Tea Party" was property - chests of tea. However, there were plenty of raiding parties against the settlements of Euroamericans by Native Americans. I have a very politically incorrect book written in the 19th century about how the Native Americans liked to scalp, rape, torture, enslave, and so on, Euroamericans - - and each other. I doubt it could get published today. Several hundred people who established the earliest settlement in Virginia, on the island of Roanoke, disappeared off the face of the earth - - it is thought that they were captured by Native Americans and enslaved. Euroamericans did not have to teach them anything about slavery - this was a common practice before Euroamericans got here. Maybe Euroamericans learned to kill civilians as a form of terror from Native Americans. But that wouldn't explain St. Bartholomew's day - and countless other attacks on civilians in Europe. Maybe a better question would be - when did it become unthinkable to attack civilians? Or maybe - Has it ever been really unthinkable to attack civilians, or do we just pretend this?