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To: tejek who wrote (527333)	11/9/2009 6:45:53 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1576160

"......I consider anything that causes extreme terror in people a terrorist attack. Lots of things terrorize people, while some people are entertained by the same things that terrorize others. In the context of what makes someone a terrorist, however, you have to consider the motive. 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 when you let it. 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 through fear, suspicion, disorientation, etc. 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 out our paranoid psychosis by attacking innocents who look like the ghostly terrorists (bigotry). 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.

To: tejek who wrote (527333)	11/9/2009 7:13:15 PM
From: Joe NYC	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576160

You and I differ......I consider anything that causes extreme terror in people a terrorist attack. But that's just semantics. Surely there is a difference between: 1. a bus driver who accidently falls of the cliff (with the bus and the passengers) 2. Virginia Tech shooter 3. 9/11 hijackers Clearly, 1, 2 and 3 are not the same, despite the fact that they caused the extreme terror to their victims. Common term is to call 1. accident 2. lone nut 3. terror attack Hasan is clearly not 1. Between 2 and 3, it is starting to look very much like 3 - terror attack. It will be interesting if Obama tries to degrade it from 3 to 2... It plays better with his base. There is no evil in the base (of course other than GWB). As I said, he already started the weasel act when he said: "We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing."