Terrorism - The Word

"the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."

What do you consider a terrorist to be? The above quote is what a dictionary states it as. But with the current events, I dont believe that this definition is true.


Why? Because of two recent events. The first and latest, the foiled car bombings in the U.K. Before any info was known on the situation, CNN and other large news production deemed these bombers as terrorists. This was before the "terrorists" stated any reason for the bombings. The "terrorists" never said anything about their political, religious, or ideological objectives, but they were still terrorists.

My second event is the Virginia Tech shooting. This shooter clearly stated that his reason for it was to change the thinking of people so they would be better to people like him. Now isn't this the force of violence to achieve ideological beliefs?


So in your opinion, what does the word terrorist mean? Because to mean, it doesn't mean anything any more.

 

PETA is a terrorist group. They use tactics to inspire fear in others (throwing paint on fur coats, etc.). At my school, I mentioned them as a terrorist group and I pretty much got shunned. How are they not?!? They fit the exact definition of a terrorist.


To answer your question, a terrorist is anyone who uses the weapon of fear or terror to achieve a goal, or to send a message.

 

Quote what I said In The September 11 thread : I think it was real. The U.S government actually created terrorism. They were terrorizing muslim nations throught the late 1980s and through the 1990s. So this caused some muslims to become extremist, actually more with because the US started supporting Israel against Palestine, the slowly Palestinian genocide.
SO AL-Qaeda formed as the biggest terrorist group in history,provoked from the backlash of the US operations in Asia and northern Africa. The US government and Al-Qaeda are evil.

 

Your just like me...you like to take things sort of out of context. But what your saying makes sense...and is true. I hate the word terrorism, its not used loosely enough.

 

Things such as the Vriginia Tech shootings is not terrorism. Maybe you should watch the news and see it. Also they might say that because they cause terror to others

 

Americans are terrorist.

We go over to another country kill 100s of thousands of innocent people. When their country really did nothin to the US.

So whos really the terrorist......

 

Half the news is biased and bullshit.

Most of this topic is the way you define something. Terrorists can be killers, or just people trying to make a point the wrong way.

 

And they can't stop us

More than half the news is biased and bullshit. They say what brings in the bucs.

And a terrorist as I see it is someone who exploits others to maximize fear and publicity. Terrorism is simply a form of asymmetric warfare

 

Technically, any one who terrorises or scares someone else should be considered a terrorist; not just someone who blows up buildings and wears tea towels on their heads.

 

Ehm, They can't stop us? You must one hell of a redkneck! Pfft, those iraqians will kill any1 at anytime, saw at 9-11 not 1 tear dropped from my eye because it's bushes fault!! Bush started this crap and i hope it ends!! Comon democratic president!!

 

The US government invented terrorism. They are corrupt liars who are having other weak countries invaded and murdering more innocent people then those who are real criminals.The news about terrorism is pretty much bullshit, lies and anti-Muslim stuff that brainwashes people into hating Muslims.I've seen alot of this is the American media.Our bad foreign policies got us into these messes,Clinton and George W. Bush didn't do shit it's there blame.

 

not to be racism but yeah US goverment is a terorist and they create all the rest of terrorism becaue of their corruption and lies. One ant makes a mistake the entire ants get the result of it. Take for instance in Iran, what happen when just Saddam Hussein attack US? The whole country now is in a down fall because one of their most important stock (oil) have been destroyed durin the US's 1 month of terrorism to conquer Iran. Btw terrorism defines that Just because they do not agree or satisfy with a decision or result, they take immediate actiol without being rasional.

 

Actually the definition of terrorism is someone who terrorises, duh.

I'm with the war in Iraq, even though many soldiers are dying needlessly, someone needs to fix up that country.

 

I certainly hope you're retarded. Otherwise you have no excuse.

Do you support genocides?
Do you support corrupt governments?
Do you like societies that breed/house groups that would like to, or already have, attacked the US?
Do you support countries that have WMDs (supposedly) and are known to have used them in the past on more than one occasion?

It seems that you do.
And do you really think those Iraq body counts (which are exaggerated, I bet it's no more than 150,000) are the results of the US military?
Firstly, our military action was/is weak as hell, and I don't see how they could ever be given so much credit.
Lastly, if you bother to look at actual reports, you'd see that those body counts consist, overwhelmingly, of car bombings, suicide bombings, executions, etc. that were not a result of the US occupation. To say that would be to say that such things never occurred before the US came. :/

 

Very well said Cruel_Machine. You forgot to mention how many of those "innocent" Iraqis kidnapped and sadistically murdered innocent US civilians that worked in Iraq.

 

The people who kidnap and murder are EXTREMISTS, not civilians.