2010/2/19 John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com>: > It walks like a duck. It quacks like a duck. But it ain't a duck?
Well... his flight resembled Daffy's, I guess... It depends on how much you're willing to dilute the term. Terrorist is a sort of word that makes great headlines and is very suitable for whacking someone over the head with. Like "sexist", "racist", "communist", ... All of which are used widely outside their original meaning. But for the description of homicidal nutters, I absolutely see your point. We don't have any good name for them except "terrorist", and Bin Laden opened a whole new avenue of means they can use for their deluded goals. It's a sorry state of matters, but I still side against labelling them terrorists as long as they do not have the ideological/religious connection usually bound to the term. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
