Political correctness makes it impossible to be precise. Terrorism is a
tactic. It makes no sense to wage war on a tactic. Doing so makes us
forget than while there are a number of different groups and individuals
that are willing to use that tactic to try to achieve their ends. The
current suspect may in fact be a Nordic male, with an extremist group
from either the far right or the far left, or a disgruntled tax payer,
maybe even a real anarchist, a group that is entirely off the scale,
(modern anarchists are much to organized to merit the name).
Anyway I'm expecting that whatever the motivation for this little act of
barbarism, it's probably not what the major news organizations are
pushing right now, and when truth is known they will not acknowledge the
fact and keep pushing their current tripe, or change to the new
information never acknowledging that their speculations were wrong.
Right now I'm just glad that the people I know in Norway are alright.
I've always seen Norwegians as being pretty good people, going about
their business in the best traditions of Western Civilization, trying to
the the right thing. They don't deserve this, but then so few really do.
On 7/22/2011 5:00 PM, Toralf Lund wrote:
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Well CNN says the shooting at the youth camp about 30 minutes away
was possibly connected to the one in the central city...
While what you say is true, (re media can often be too quick) what's
the definition of terrorism? How can this be anything else no matter
what/who the source.
True, it's a question of definitions. It's definitely terrorism in one
sense, but not necessarily associated with a "terrorist" organization
(which is what the media often seem to imply), or even intended to
cause fear as a way of reaching a certain political goal (which some
would say must be a part of such a terrible act for it to become
terrorism.)
- Toralf
ann
On 7/22/2011 14:50, Toralf Lund wrote:
Darren Addy wrote:
We tend to assume "terrorist" immediately these days, until proven
otherwise, don't we?
I mean... it could have been a small meteorite/asteroid impact now,
couldn't it?
Or maybe Mr. Creosote just had a bit too much for lunch again?
:-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkOv0-u6A0
Apologies in advance...
Well, I don't mind...
I completely agree that people, not to mention media, are far too quick
to talk about terrorism when something like this happens. Last time
there was a bomb explosion in Oslo I believe a rather young guy working
on his own turned out to be behind it. (Yes it's happened before - on a
smaller scale, but I think someone got killed. This was many years ago,
though...)
I wasn't in Oslo today, either, by the way...
- Toralf
Darren Addy
Kearney, Nebraska
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