This is not the definition of terrorism that I was taught when I became a leftist. Terrorists do not trust the masses and have few ties to them. So they do not attempt education of the masses or appeal to their sense of justice. Terrorists aim too randomly to discourage their true enemies. Hundreds of janitors and food service workers were killed in the 9-11 events but Bush, Sharon, Cheney, etc., are alive and now more powerful than ever. If the aim was justice for Islamics in Palestine or elsewhere, then the goal was not reached. Human rights activists such as myself had to work even harder to show ignorant American Christians that Middle Easterners and followers of Islam are people with rights. My mom asked, why do they hate us so much? So, terrorists convinced my retired mom, who has always been poor, that they hate her. Contrast that with what we did in Seattle; large numbers of working people were mobilized. We had educational forums on health care here and around the world. Steel Workers put on forums on globalization. We discouraged the meeting of a globalization group. We forged at least a temporary alliance between labor and environmentalists. The crowd was mixed race (though not enough) and mixed age. The youth realized that civil rights are only those rights that you fight for. Terrorists believe that revolutionary change comes from too random violence. How many Irish families were freed by blowing up postal customers in England?
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