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To: Joe NYC who wrote (144971)	4/15/2002 1:15:48 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572695

It seems that your point is that terrorism is what everyone calls terrorism + everything that's worse than terrorism. Joe, you've got it mixed up. Bush and others believe terrorism is what everyone calls terrorism. I go by Merriam Webster's Online definition. Suppose you take the same definition to something that we can call "annoyance", like humid weather. If we take your definition and annoyance is what everyone else perceives as annoyance + everything worse, than you can say that genocide is annoyance. I don't think it makes sense use words in such an ill-defined way. I think annoyance is one thing, terror is something else, different, much stronger than annoyance. Same with genocide. It is something different than terror. I don't understand the argument made in the first part of your paragraph. As for the last two statements, I agree....genocide is something different than terror. However, both were elements in the greater event that we call the Holocaust. And I think its an injustice to the people who went through it to call the Holocaust simply an example of human genocide. In fact the Holocaust was a multi year period of time where millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other minorities were exposed to high levels of terrorism, relocated from homes, sometimes several times, forced to live in squalor and depravation and then killed. It was one of the worst periods in human history. ted