Date: 13 Sep 2001 05:49:53 -0700
From: Inanna-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: M-INTRO: questions on america




do you, all the members of this list,  observe any  vagueness, and perhaps some sort of  double-standard,  in the way usa and the ordinary americans use the word "terrorrism"? 
if the attack is "on" usa on the lands of usa, it is terrorrism!  if the attack is "by" usa's secret agents, troops, fighters, etc on another country's land, it is "defending the democratic powers of the world." (have you counted how many times bush and blair used the word 'democracy' in their press releases?)
from this point on, the same observation can be made for many other words such as democracy, good-bad, evil,...
should not there be a more universal criterion to distinguish between the good and the bad?

kaiserw wrote "..they are also americans..."  what if they were not americans?

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kaiserw wrote:
This also has to stop because we are regressing back to a WW2 mentallity (i.e. the Japanese internment camps), we must think about our actions, they are also Americans and have holes in their hearts as well. I believe we should find the people that did this and deal with them in manor that shows the world that terrorism will not be tollerated by anyone, and that it should stop before the entire world as at war. 

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