[thechat] Justice, was Chomsky, was Michael Moore's message

[Bill]

> I have to add that I have a level of hesitancy using the word
> "terrorist."  I understand that last weeks attacks were designed to
> create terror, but the word "terrorist" has been bandied about a lot
> within US society, to discredit certain activists, for example, the
> pacifist Judi Bari.
>
> 150 years ago, any American Indian that refused to move to a
> reservation was labeled a "hostile."  The label helped dehumanize.
> Dehumanization makes it easier to kill.  So I regard labels with
> suspicion.


terrorism:  to use unconventional violence as a "force multiplier" by
causing widespread, paralizing fear to disable a nation in the pursuit of
political, religious, or cultural goals.

...in case we all needed a good definition in place of any labels that might
be overused.

BH