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[pecunium]

What is terrorism?

According to some it is those who oppose things like the No Child LEft Behind Act (that would be the Gov't official who called the National Education Association terrorists)

According to some it is not the people who ousted Aristide (he was chided for calling them that, the CCN interviewer told him they were political opponents. Now, I might be kind and call them rebels, or, if I agreed with them, revolutionaries, but I can see where Aristide can be allowed to call them terrorists).

But when it comes to sending mail bombs to the Office of Diversity and Dialogue, in Scottsdale Arizona, well it apparently doesn't merit much comment at all.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/0227explosion27.html


If the article is to be believed there is no reason for this, it just happened to be in that office.

"
City officials were unaware of any grievances, threats or orders of protection against Logan or others in the Office of Diversity and Dialogue. They say they have no reason to believe race or Logan's position provided a motive for the bombing."

It was just one of those things.

Never mind that mail bombs are actually pretty rare. Never mind that they are almost always related to some grievance, or political motive. Nope, never mind that.

Just go back to to calling people who commit real crimes, like opposing administration plans for, "tort reform, Terrorists: BOSTON (Reuters) - The chairman of American International Group Inc., the world's largest insurer by market value, on Tuesday called lawyers opposed to tort reform "terrorists" and said class-action lawsuits are a "blight" on the United States."

Because those people are a threat.

TK

Comments

Wandered over from Chorus's LJ

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Blowing up liberal scum (and with a name like "the Office of Diversity and Dialogue" you know they have to be bleeding heart swine) is okay, because some brave "freedom fighter" (think Contras, not French Resistance) is doing Big-G god's work.

Threatening the free flow of money from the poor to the wealthy... of course, that is a terrorist act in Bush's America.

Hell, I'm surprised your journal is still here.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Found this through geekchick's LJ. I think you made some excellent points here.

I think it might also be worth noting that extremists who bomb abortion clinics aren't called "terrorists" either.

[ourika.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised nobody's called him on the, "I live in Scottsdale because there's no crime here," quote. I can't believe anybody who be stupid enough to say something like that.

There most certainly is crime in Scottsdale.

I've been skimming through your LJ, and I friended you. Let me know if you'd prefer that I un-friend you (I'll just read through your LJ without having it on my list *joke*)

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

I found you via mactavish.

Let's see if I have this right. Racial prejudice was so bad in the Police Department that a whole new branch of the city government was needed to address it. Many (possibly all) employees have been required to take "training and outreach programs." The office receives complaints about people who work for the city. The person who runs this office is black. He has pushed hard enough to get the city to where it won an award for best practices in diversity.

But somebody was just playing a prank and sent the mailbomb to a random address.

=rolls eyes=

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No, nor are the people in Texas who were arrested with the plans, and means, for making cyanide bombs, nor was there much outcry at the ricin sent to Congress.

I ought to be more cynical than I am, but the amazingly bland focus of the, "War on Terrorism," on not much more than a handful of Arab/Muslim groups, when we have a significant (which is different from large) number of such people acting in the U.S., from the U.S., and because they are citizens of the U.S. (what was the name of the clinic bomber who was hiding out in the Carolinas for two-plus years? How long before he was classed a domestic terrorist?), is still a tad shocking, and more than a trifle disappointing.

And a lot worrisome.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Hey, I put this out for the world to read, which means I have no bitch if the world should choose to read it.

I'm always flattered to see someone has found my ramblings, ponderings and panderings (the silly quiz results) amusing enough to make a part of their day (given that time is finite), so no, I have not a whit of objection.

TK

[ourika.livejournal.com]

*grins* I tend to be amused by the same thing when random unknowns friend me :-) Thanks. I'll be reading ya later.