Defining Terrorism

[kelber at mindspring.com]

And, more concisely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdDaWKT7rRM

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 30, 2015 10:54 AM
>To: Danny Weltman <danny.weltman at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <Pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Defining Terrorism
>
>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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