It's only terrorism if you have brown skin or a towel on your head

WoodPeckr

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its the first strike of the tea partiers
Yepper this is just the beginning!

Joe Stack from Texas IS a TERRORIST just as Timothy McVeigh was and BOTH are USA homegrown TERRORISTS and most likely Republicans!....:rolleyes:
 

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Weren't the IRA considered terrorists (by the british - not so much the Americans since they funded them).
The late Senator Kennedy did everything in his power to prevent the extradition of IRA terrorists from the U.S. Then the current Labour Goverment had the overwhelming stupidity to make him a CBE.
 

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Terrorism is intended to strike terror. It is not just the destruction caused by the act but the effect the act and resulting destruction and terror will have in achieving a political end. Destruction simply for the sake of destruction and as payback for some perceived wrong is not terror per se regardless of the color of one's skin.
So you're saying the people in the building weren't terrorized?

Really?

I'd be a little freaked by a plane flying into my workplace... Wouldnt you?
 

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By publicly posting his manifesto online, he has made a clear political statement, coupled with a destructive act of violence; that certainly fits both the dictionary and common-use definitions of terrorism. Even though he hasn't explicitly called for others to support him, and doesn't appear to have any ideological agenda beyond what he stated in his letter, he still wanted people to know exactly why he did what he did.

This is not the work of a terrorist organization, which uses violence towards an ideological goal; it was an isolated incident committed by an unbalanced individual. This was also true of McVeigh & The Unabomber (among many others) but the term still fits the intention of the action itself. Nonetheless, to say "this was not an act of terrorism" obscures the difference between the two, and reinforces the inherently-racist connotation of the word itself.
I concur.
 

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Dontcha know, it’s called “man made disasters” now. Lol

Seriously, I don’t know why they make a point of not calling it terrorism.

In this case, he didn’t do it to further some ideology. He wasn’t indoctrinated to believe that he’ll get his 72 virgins. He was a pissed off guy with some bad wiring.

Muslims don’t do all the acts of terror, just only about 95%.
 

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Now that's just plain a stupid comment.
NOT stupid at all.
These Tea Baggers are preaching sedition and only a really dumb lawyer would not see that and apologize for them...:rolleyes:
 

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The late Senator Kennedy did everything in his power to prevent the extradition of IRA terrorists from the U.S.
The Irish suffered greatly at the hands of the Brits (especially the Scots). During the two great potato famines when over 2 million Irish perished, the rich Scottish landowners were EXPORTING food OUT of Ireland. The late Senator Kennedy's family traces its roots back to Ireland.
 

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This will happen again.
Funny DICK Cheney said the same about a month ago, remember!

Maybe he was giving a 'green light' codeword to these Tea Bagging idiots!.....:rolleyes:
 

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If your name is Joe Stack from Texas and you flly planes into government buildings because you are pissed off about your taxes you are not considered a terrorist.
Sigh. You know this isn't terrorism. This guy isn't part of a network of people, as far as I know, loosely or not that are formally recruited, indoctrinated and instructed with the explicit goal to strike terror in another group. Stop being a smartass and an apologist for Islamic psychopaths that aren't doing the religion any good. You do know you're just a pathetic laughable pawn in the eyes of the "brown skin towelheads", right?
 

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1. Not everyone who commits suicide is a suicide bomber or terrorist notwithstanding that he/she may cause damage and destruction in doing so.
No, but this case fits the bill pretty well.

2. The exercise he is speaking of is not the suicide or the plane crash.
Apparently it was, he posted that message the same day he crashed the plane into the building, as in, immediately before he did so. The message is meant to explain what he is doing and he signed it citing his death in the signature (put his own date of death as 2010 under his name).

He plainly intended to attack a government target while killing himself and as many other people as he could take down with him all in the name of a very specific political agenda.

That fits the classic definition of suicide bomber to a T. Essentially he used his airplane as a bomb and blew himself and it up trying to kill people for a political reason.
 

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He is a terrorist

and John Mayer is a racist.

imo, both according to their respective definitions
 

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Sigh. You know this isn't terrorism.
Yeah right!
And Timmy McVeigh was as American as apple pie!.....:rolleyes:

They are BOTH terrorists as defined by Darth Cheney....
 

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Yeah right!
And Timmy McVeigh was as American as apple pie!.....:rolleyes:

They are BOTH terrorists as defined by Darth Cheney....
So

Who is arguing with you??
 

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Well rama seems to be the only one who thinks this nut wasn't a terrorist....:cool:
 

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The late Senator Kennedy did everything in his power to prevent the extradition of IRA terrorists from the U.S. Then the current Labour Goverment had the overwhelming stupidity to make him a CBE.
True, Irish americans supported the cause of the IRA, pehaps without fully understanding the horror of terrorism. I attended irish celebrations in new york attended by hundreds of people. While drinking Guiness and singing Irish songs(including 'rebel' songs) the particpants also contibuted(via raffle and contribution) to a bunch of guys collecting for the 'cause'. We all know where that money was going. Kennedy was supporting his Irish American constituency.
 

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Don't just bash the Kennedy family.
Lets not forget the Bush family did its part also by supporting arms trade with Hitler's Nazis prior and up to WWII!
 
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