{"article":{"id":2968,"heading":"FBI definition of \"Terrorism.\"","author":"Winston Smith","created":"2000-08-21 01:45:23","modified":"2000-08-21 03:36:22","last_modified":"Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:36:22","article":"<br>  <br>        \"The unlawful use of FORCE or violence against persons or PROPERTY to intimidate or COERCE a GOVERNMENT, the civilian population, or ANY SEGMENT THEREOF, in FURTHERANCE OF POLITICAL OR SOCIAL OBJECTIVES.\" This is how the FBI defines terrorism, though they too use force to intimidate and coerce the civilian population in furtherance of a social objective, thus they are terrorists by their own definition. However, this definition can also include activists and is probably written in these words for that very purpose. Civil Disobedience is slightly unlawful and it is a form of \"force\" against persons and property to coerce the government and corporations (one of the segments thereof). It is nonviolent, but they can still call it terrorism because it is to further a political and social objective, several actually. This only means that their definition of terrorism is not the real definition, but a revised one. We should write this definition on signs to carry at marches and demonstrations, to indicate what hypocrites they are. Also, we should demonstrate against terrorism, because we should be against it, they are the ones terrorizing people and we don't wanna' look like them. I don't think anyone in this movement would even consider a form of terrorism, but if the Feds make up their own definition of terrorism they can write it to include their political opponents, us. Pretty sneaky, huh. Let's have an anti-terrorist rally sometime, I am happy to protest against terrorism, it is a bad thing, especially when it is carried out by lawful authorities of which we pay to protect us. It is kind of hard not to be against terrorism, especially that kind of terrorism where you are powerless to defend yourself, yet you knew it would happen well ahead of time and you just have to take it. Don't take it anymore, speak out against terrorism, and make it loud so the jerks who think we are terrorists will at least have the chance to hear the truth to where they can't deny they got that chance. <br><br> Peace\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"The home of the sheep and the land of the confused","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The FBI's definition of \"terrorism,\" appears to include civil disobedience. Go to www.fbi.gov, and go to search, type \"Domestic Terrorism\" in the search engine space, and hit go, then look through it all, peticularly the first one on the list.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/2968.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":2978,"heading":"what's a terrorist?","article":"Weren't the Founding Fathers and all the colonists who fought against the English crown in the war of 1776, \"terrorists\"?\r\n\r\nWhy are $15 pipe bombs \"terrorism\", but aircraft carriers and $1M Patriot missles somehow honest warefare?\r\n\r\n\"Terrorism\" is just a political term used by The Big Guy to demonize The Little Guy fighting against him.  I'm sure Timothy McVeigh would have gladly flown a fleet of F-15s into Oaklahoma City, had he an economic superpower he could tax too.\r\n\r\nYou may not like the idea of violent conflict, but so long as it's to defend or restore that which is rightfully yours or someone else's, then it's a necessary evil.  And some day, it might even be saving your ass - or the ass of your children, or your grandchildren-to-come.\r\n\r\n-Anonymous, because free speech isnt safe anymore.  Not in Amerika.\r\n\r\np.s. Tyrants and dictators just love pacifism.\r\n","author":"anonymous","parent_id":2968,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-21 03:01:11","modified":"2000-08-21 03:14:23","fileurl":""},{"id":2999,"heading":"play into their hands","article":"Violence is the option of choice for those too ineffectual or unimaginative for real change. \r\n\r\nOutside of immediate self-defense, violence is never justified.  Everyone claims to be 'right.'  The closer one moves to that side, the closer one resembles the enemy.\r\n\r\nViolence provides immediate gratification to the ineffectual - the false sensation that something is actually being achieved.  \r\n\r\nIn actuality, what is achieved is the obvious pretext for the enemy to restrict freedoms that could otherwise be exploited to jam the system, and a loss of public sympathy.\r\n\r\n","author":"farmy","parent_id":2968,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-21 03:36:22","modified":"2000-08-21 04:15:22","fileurl":""}]}