Defining terrorism

[dArKeR]

Every age has its enemies. In the mid-20th century, Fascists were the evildoers. After World War II, Communists became civilization's public enemies. The bombings across London of July 7th have shown that terrorists remain today's designated masters of evil.

The word "terrorism" now appears in law books around the world and is gaining new legislative adoptions. Various civil sanctions apply to "terrorist organizations." It can be a crime to assist a terrorist organization.

But it is sometimes hard to determine who "they" -- the terrorists -- are. Whether organizations are terrorist or not is largely an administrative determination motivated by politics. Politically divided, the UN repeatedly passes resolutions against terrorism but cannot agree on how to define the term.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/18/2003264041

[wli]

1. because it's a propaganda euphemism for "enemy of the state"

No bones about it. Pure fascism at work.

[dArKeR]

2. or "enemy of the corporations"?

[wli]

3. pretty much the same thing since they run the show

[stellanoir]

4. "war is the terrorism of the rich,

terrorism is the war of the poor."

all war is terror.