Defining Terrorism

[Mark Kohut]

GREAT THANKS. lotta necessary reading to do.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Danny Weltman <danny.weltman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone interested in a bit more of an in-depth look at the question might
> enjoy this article: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/terrorism/
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A good article, thanks. And leans more toward Joseph.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:28 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > By Phillip Cryan
>> >
>> > "Terrorism" may be the most important, powerful word in the world right
>> > now.
>> > In the name of doing away with terrorism, the United States is bombing
>> > Afghanistan and talking about possible attacks elsewhere. Political
>> > leaders
>> > from many countries are at once declaring support for the new U.S. war
>> > and
>> > seeking to re-name their own enemies as "terrorists."
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pine/Phil110/terrorism.html
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:26 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> My apologies if this has been posted to the list before.
>> >>
>> >> What is terrorism? Few words have so insidiously worked their way into
>> >> our
>> >> everyday vocabulary. Like `Internet' -- another grossly over-used term
>> >> that
>> >> has similarly become an indispensable part of the argot of the late
>> >> twentieth century -- most people have a vague idea or impression of
>> >> what
>> >> terrorism is, but lack a more precise, concrete and truly explanatory
>> >> definition of the word. This imprecision has been abetted partly by the
>> >> modern media, whose efforts to communicate an often complex and
>> >> convoluted
>> >> message in the briefest amount of airtime or print space possible have
>> >> led
>> >> to the promiscuous labelling of a range of violent acts as `terrorism'.
>> >> Pick
>> >> up a newspaper or turn on the television and -- even within the same
>> >> broadcast or on the same page -- one can find such disparate acts as
>> >> the
>> >> bombing of a building, the assassination of a head of state, the
>> >> massacre of
>> >> civilians by a military unit, the poisoning of produce on supermarket
>> >> shelves or the deliberate contamination of over-the-counter medication
>> >> in a
>> >> chemist's shop all described as incidents of terrorism. Indeed,
>> >> virtually
>> >> any especially abhorrent act of violence that is perceived as directed
>> >> against society -- whether it involves the activities of
>> >> anti-government
>> >> dissidents or governments themselves, organized crime syndicates or
>> >> common
>> >> criminals, rioting mobs or persons engaged in militant protest,
>> >> individual
>> >> psychotics or lone extortionists -- is often labelled `terrorism'.
>> >>
>> >>     Dictionary definitions are of little help. The pre-eminent
>> >> authority
>> >> on the English language, the much-venerated Oxford English Dictionary,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-terrorism.html
>> >
>> >
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