Killing people is murder or manslaughter. The way you wrote that sentence, you could call a lot of things terrorism which aren't. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
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Ok, I'm sorry for not writing it "correctly", now do we really need to argue about what word to call it? It doesn't matter if it's considered terrorism or not, he/she/they still hurt hundreds of people and need to be caught. |
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I'm not saying it isn't fucked up but how many people have been killed by our own government this year alone by predator drones? I find it disconcerting that you're so riled up about an attack that killed 3 people but you probably don't even bat an eyelash for the terrorist activity perpetrated by our government. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
^ That's why there's no definition of terrorism. Any sufficiently rigorous definition would have to include all governments. |
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That's not what I think at all. I never said I care more about 3 people dying than the thousands the U.S. government kills. But this thread is about the Boston bombings, not about all the people the government kills. There are other threads for that. I didn't think it was necessary to say anything about that here, we already know how fucked up the government is. You can't assume that much just from what I say in a couple posts. |
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It's a natural reaction, we're much closer to the people in Boston. Some of my friends were participating in that marathon. But I'm trying to strike at the heart of the conflict, if we want terrorists to stop, we can't continue to ignore the terrorism our tax dollars are paying for. It's simple blow-back. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I was about to speak up against what Woodstock was saying but i held my tongue knowing what he wants is an argument which i don't want to do. |
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Boston beefs up security after marathon bombings - YouTube |
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No, I don't want an argument, I didn't expect reactions like this and regret saying anything. And I don't mean terrorism like what politicians use as an excuse to start wars, I was just saying that deciding if it's terrorism based on what country or group they're from doesn't make sense, so if an attack by al-Qaeda is terrorism, then why isn't it terrorism when an American does the exact same thing? |
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Yes sir, and that is not what I was implying. |
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---o--- my DCs say I'm dreamy.
I apologize, sometimes I don't realize I'm instigating shit when all I'm doing is trying to correct people or clarify a subject. And I'm taking out on you a problem I'm having with the general animosity of a lot of people reacting to this event. I believe the perpetrators of this tragedy, ie terrorists, need compassion. They were led toward this action by tremendous pain, which they unfortunately could not see through. They are already experiencing tremendous suffering, otherwise they would not feel the need to cause such suffering. So I have no desire to hurt them, even though they came very close to hurting my friends and this is honestly the closest I have ever been to a tragedy of this nature, emotionally. I just feel sorry for them, and I wish we could lay down this animosity between each other once and for all. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I feel that the main reason for this is the fact that the media sensationalize deaths that happen which are on our side of the fence. It's not often you hear as big a fuss made about hundreds of people that were killed in places like Afghanistan and when there is, people seem to view the deaths that happen as more of a statistic than anything else because of the fact that they do not think of the devastating effects it has on the families left behind and all the suffering caused. They brush it under the carpet because it is for "the greater good" and that's all it has ever been about. |
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Probably unrelated [to the bombings], but an MIT officer was shot and killed about an hour ago. Whoever did it is toast considering there's cops and FBI agents all over the city. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
Shit hit the fan. One bombing suspect is dead, the other is currently on the loose. MIT shooting was related. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
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Have any reasons been given for the bombing? |
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This is the only thing I've found on the motives: |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
And now they report they have the suspect in custody. |
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Gunshot would to the neck and leg. Taken to Mt. Auburn Hospital. Glad this is over. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
this.. |
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