what's in a word?

[ish mailian]

So when a gangster murders a cop to send a message that the police should
not enter the neighborhood, a political act, that, in many parts of the
world, achieves its political motive, we can label it terrorism? And when
the state responds by killing dozens of suspected gang members, this too is
terrorism? The objectives, on both sides, are political. No, I think the
words has lost most of its meaning now. Tim McVeigh was a terrorist, so
were all the men who knocked down the WTC, but these shootings are not
quite the same as those. The governments are trying to control the word and
failing, as it backfires and is given more racist and xenophobic
connotations by people like Trump and by the media. It's fairly useless
now.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
> wrote:

> There has to be a political objective, too. Otherwise it is just murder.
>
> Am 04.12.2015 um 19:38 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>
>> I always thought the core 'traditional' meaning of the word was to
>> kill/attack citizens when not at war.
>>
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