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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (217304)	8/27/2007 4:24:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793739

A reasonable reply [not that I agree with it all]: <To: Maurice Winn (who wrote) 8/27/2007 4:10:19 PM From: rough_cut_gemstone I cannot respond. Your intolerant thread head has banned me. There is nothing stretchy about the term terrorist except as used by petty partisans for self serving purposes. A terrorist is a person who intends to harm innocents in order to bring a negative effect on his enemy. A terrorist group encourages some or all of its members to use this strategy. The strategy works. Terrorist events disorient societies by spreading fear among friends, families, or similar others who could be targeted. The fear is exacerbated by the fact that we have no way of knowing who will be hit, by whom, how it will occur, when or where to expect the attack. When the terrorist is ghost like it adds to the scary effect. The cumulative effect of not knowing the source or where or when it will surface, but that the event could be devastating, is a paranoid psychosis that is contagious. The worst thing we could do is to act our our paranoid psychosis by attacking innocents who look like the ghosts. The smartest thing we could do would be to bring the innocents into our circle by declaring the terrorists to be a common enemy. So only the ghost like terrorists remain on the outside, then they have no place to hide and their camouflage becomes transparent. Terrorist is the perfect word for what they do. Who they are affiliated with by history, culture, ethnicity, or demographic is irrelevant except as a means to gather intel. > Bombing Hiroshima, London, Dresden, Vietnam would fit that description: <A terrorist is a person who intends to harm innocents in order to bring a negative effect on his enemy. A terrorist group encourages some or all of its members to use this strategy. The strategy works. > The underlying problem is some people wanting to boss other people around and confiscate their property. That's how democracies work too. Most people are in favour of that. Strangely, they deny it and say "Oh no. I'm not in favour of that. It's just that somebody has to be in charge and we need to take money from people for the greater good. Of course, it should be me and my gang." Mqurice