death by euphemism
"domestic terrorism" is just a big long way to say "murder", and it's starting to rankle me that we can't call all these people exactly what they are without resorting to sideways linguistic dodges that serves only to obfuscate the truth, and perpetuate the colossal unconstitutional waste of money and time that is the department of homeland insecurity. (a guy craps out on his jet ski, swims a huge long distance to the nearest visible land for safety, climbs a fence and crosses a wide open asphalt area to reach people who can give him aid, and the TSA/DHS morons who couldn't build a system to stop anyone from doing any of that--the fence he climbed was around JFK at the time--want to charge him with terrorism-related crimes??????)
anyway, it seems some nut job has opened fire at the "family research council" because, if i'm not mistaken, it appears that the preferred way to redress things like people being murdered at abortion clinics is to, in turn, murder other people at other places. yeah. real civilized.
can we just call this what it is? a sociopathic homicidal rage/outrage? because that's what it is.
it's murder.
period.
and it's murder when folks get murdered at a sikh temple in wisconsin, and it's murder when folks get murdered delivering legal notices (not to mention ridiculously yellow to journalize this for its proximity to a college, owing to the apparent recent popularity of murdering people at colleges) to a texas apartment, and it's murder when folks get murdered going to the movies in colorado, just like it's murder everywhere else. (except, apparently, when it's in syria, but that's a whole 'nuther can of worms).
i, myself, am against murder. you should be too.
anyway, it seems some nut job has opened fire at the "family research council" because, if i'm not mistaken, it appears that the preferred way to redress things like people being murdered at abortion clinics is to, in turn, murder other people at other places. yeah. real civilized.
can we just call this what it is? a sociopathic homicidal rage/outrage? because that's what it is.
it's murder.
period.
and it's murder when folks get murdered at a sikh temple in wisconsin, and it's murder when folks get murdered delivering legal notices (not to mention ridiculously yellow to journalize this for its proximity to a college, owing to the apparent recent popularity of murdering people at colleges) to a texas apartment, and it's murder when folks get murdered going to the movies in colorado, just like it's murder everywhere else. (except, apparently, when it's in syria, but that's a whole 'nuther can of worms).
i, myself, am against murder. you should be too.
posted by kad barma at 2:22 PM
1 Comments:
I think it starts with the redefinition of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMD) from Nucs to Nuc/Chem/Bio (the Soviet view) to high explosives in your trunk (theFBI). Terrorism is, in my mind, the crossover from police business to "black helicopters". We should want to keep this on the police side of the line and not be allowing the Federal Government to take away our civil rights.
Regards — Cliff
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