Cole writes: "White terrorists are called 'gunmen.' What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn't that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, 'terrorists.'"
Aurora shooter James Holmes is rarely referred to as a terrorist. (photo: AP)
Top Ten Differences Between White Terrorists and Others
10 August 12
- White terrorists are called "gunmen." What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn't that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, "terrorists."
- White terrorists are "troubled loners." Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.
- Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.
- The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.
- White terrorists are part of a "fringe." Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.
- White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.
- White terrorists are never called "white." But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.
- Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.
- White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.
- There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won't stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.
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In an age characterised by the blatant denial of the reality of 'White Supremacy' should we be surprised??
"What differentiates a right wing bigot from a left wing bigot and vice versa?"
The age-old answer:
"Not a God-damned thing!"
huh?
Dont bother asking why, the rant you get back isnt worth it.
Can you say "Don't bother asking why", without using the negative. For instance could you possible advise newsmom what, in your opinion, WOULD be worth asking why about? AND, if you are so sure that I would even reply back and reply back with a rant, and furthermore with a rant that "wouldn't be worth it", would you PLEASE inform the me and the world (or at least those who read rsn.org comments) exactly what the "IT" is that is ALWAYS AND UNIVERSALLY WORTH "IT"?
It's simple really, anyone who commits an act of terror is a terrorist. Dictionary and text book stuff when the words are applied correctly.
Let's have a look at Ireland. Now here is a country that has been sacked by England from the 1600's on. The English wanted Irish land, Irish crops and Irish horses. To achieve this, QE-I sent a Danish mercenary force in (who named Blackpool "Dublin" and gave us the phrase "beyond the pale",) among other forces, and swept through the country leaving every man, woman and child swinging from the trees; whole towns and whole villages. The smell of death could be smelled three to ten miles out to sea. Down through the ages, the English took and retook Ireland (including the Irish royal coach which they have never returned.) Enter the IRA; that is, the Irish Republican Army. Here we have your basic freedom fighters fighting for the right to their own country. Yet, George W. Bush (a line bred descendant of George the (crazy) Third of England) labeled the IRA "terrorists". Question: How can you be a terrorist in your own country when you are fighting take-all abusive squatters? The IRA aren't terrorists, they are people fighting for the rights to their own country and home rule. But it doesn't suit the United States to be fair, nor the English to get out of Ireland (and return the Irish royal coach as you go.) So, what is the difference between terrorists and freedom fighters? Answer: Whomever is making the pronouncement; and it don't make it so.
Also, "gunman" is a perfectly legitimate term for the guy who is actually standing there shooting, just like the 9/11 hijackers are usually referred to as "hijackers," not "the 9/11 terrorists," the Mumbai attackers were referred to as "gunmen," and Abdulmutallab is known as the "underwear bomber," not the "underwear terrorist." "Terrorist" has more of a connotation of conspiring and long-term strategizing for a protracted campaign; it's not usually used to describe the actual commission of the act itself, because it denotes a strategy, not an act.
But Holmes is not a terrorist, he's a deranged lunatic empowered by the gun lobby. Who is it in this scenario who has political goals to achieve by demanding that insane people be guaranteed ready access to firepower?
What the hell are you trying to say..that white people are terrorists/
of terror! You know, strike fear in their hearts so they'll be less likely to do what you want to make sure they don't do, and all. So, a little mass murder. Hey, that can be pretty terrorizing, you know, kind of like an influence attempt, don't you think, hey?
It wouldn't have bothered me as much if they hadn't let several far more suspicious looking characters pass, without a second glance.
Its not really about that, Its about the PEOPLE who take ACTION, based on fanatic allegiance to this abstract cartoon character that they call a god. Its not the god that needs to be brought to "justice", its the PEOPLE. Justice is about PEOPLE, both in the applying of it and in the being applied to. PEOPLE, just PEOPLE, and only PEOPLE.
That's you and me sister/brother!
My point was if the underlying perspective (belief) is not addressed, violence will continue. And, the stronger and more entrenched a belief (especially "religious"), the more victims claimed and longer it endures. I used the example of the mutilated and persecuted Southeast Asian domestic workers of today. I've done work with them and it is truly heart breaking. Throughout the Middle East the darker their skin tone, the worse their treatment. At least here in the U.S. we have laws against discrimination. There, they do not. And, most who persecute these women believe it is a spiritual dictate.
A true religion should give comfort in times of trouble, heal the sick and encourage people to their higher self. In recent years, religions have become main stream commodities with which to manipulate people into doing things they shouldn't be doing or shouldn't have done.
Thus the churches have become corporations and have taken their place along side the rest of the polluting corporations to form a corporate society; a corptocracy.
A corporation's values and human values are not the same. Corporations seek profit for the few, while human values seek well being for the many.
Enticing people into the corporate cult with promises of 72 virgins or heaven's bounty is a misapplication of God and too much God in places he/she/it doesn't belong.
Remember: Too much of anything and it becomes something else.
There are those who have been brought up on a steady diet of one religion or another and without other mitigating influences to give them access to other thinking can act on it erroneously, but the bigger item is that we, as human beings, are resorting to war to deal with our wishes and wants. THIS part of things needs to stop; we must find a better way to deal with our differences than murder; especially murder for profit.
The guy who wrote this article made a lot of --racially oriented-- generalizations that are not based in anything. Many white people who have gone on rampages have been called terrorists, like McVeigh, this guy in Wisconsin and others. And there are in fact cases in the US where shooters have --not-- been white and have also --not-- been described as terrorists, because they were not terrorists, they were just crazy or pissed off or whatever.
And there are of course the --many-- cases where the shooters did not have political agendas, like the Aurora shooter and the kids in Columbine, and were also white.
Juan Cole is just feeding the racism that he feels will make his article popular.
There is little accuracy in what he is saying, he is just pandering and revealing his ability to reach the lowest of the lowest common denominator... political junkies who cause more trouble than value.
Why not talk about the death and destruction the drones over Pakistan are causing? Why not discuss the consequences of using depleted uranium (du) in Iraq and beyond. Hebrew prophets are of no interest to me when I've come face-to-face with people who've experienced drones, du and very real, ongoing violence. Some of the worse were the women fleeing from persecution in Southeast Asia and the domestic workers in Saudi Arabia. The latter were especially heartbreaking since they were violently abused based on a "perspective" founded in a barbaric ideology. Wars can end...but ideologies that are not addressed as WRONG & INHUMANE can insidiously persist until they are called out for they are and eradicated. I wish my world was as small as yours where only concern about a "two headed" one party political system (that cares neither about the welfare of its citizens nor the future of the nation) drove my worldview. Maybe then I wouldn't care so much about how most of the world's people live in the here and now. I could sit back and pretend that the radical left and crazy right were all that needed attention. Sad. Also, it's "Shinjitsu." An actual word in a living language that if you had any respect for other cultures, you may look up the definition. I am an American who is very grateful not to be ignorant of the world. Apologies to others that this has strayed from the topic at hand. Yet, I had to respond to such a misinformed quote.
They are also often victims of targeted harassment and manipulation campaigns designed to create "terrorists"... Study up on CIA mind control operations in American and Alex Constantine.
Quoting RICHARDKANEpa:
Lunatics with a gun - Like George W. Bush& Dick Cheney?
http://judaism.about.com/od/torah/f/multiplewives.htm
"Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s ... Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s ... Libya 2011 ... Syria 2012 ... In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its associates) have been on the same side. 1
What does this tell us about the United States' "War On Terrorism"?"
What it tells us is that the US is the greatest terrorist force on the planet. All others are either working for the US or reacting to it. Terrorism is the way that empires brutalize people into submission.
Nope, they´re zapped from drones up high by people who obviously don´t consider themselves terrorists, even though their purpose in life is spreading terror.
So would I be considered to be a 'Terorisuto' (テロリスト) if I were ever to find myself in that sort of situation (which of course I wouldn't as I am both a Rosicrucian and a Nichiren Shu Buddhist!) PLEASE learn the MEANINGS and the ETYMOLOGIES of these labels! Thank you!
A terrorist has a political agenda. That is how you tell the difference between a terrorist & someone who is just out of their mind in general.
Political people are half out of their minds, and this is obvious in this thread, but that does not mean they are violent. They are just deluded into thinking politics is an answer to the world's problems. That does not mean they are dangerous, just dumb.
The maniac who shot those people in Aurora was not a terrorist, he was just plain out of his mind. Same with the Hispanic guy that shot Trayvon Martin. Of course, since he is a maniac, he is identified by the media as a "white male", even though he is Hispanic & adopted by a Jewish family. The media keeps calling him white because it serves the agenda of colonization, it serves the white/ Black conflict which makes a lot of people a lot of money: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/03/missing-m-word-in-george-zimmerman.html
The Nazi who shot the Sikhs was a terrorist, he was out of his mind, & he had a political agenda. That's the difference.
This article uses the poison & sickness of colonization to get attention. He is drumming up a problem where none exists. Western Civilization has been poisoned from the beginning by Platonist forms & the author of this article, like Plato, knows who writes the checks.
If he is mad about what he is seeing on TV and how the media portrays it, that does not reflect "America", it's just the TV lying, as usual.
If the author of the article wants to know what America thinks, maybe he should leave whichever coast he fearfully clings to and meet some people.
By the way, side-by-side photograph comparisons of the graduate student James Holmes and the red-headed "Joker" defendant raise serious questions about whether they are one and the same person.
Correction: The families of other terrorists are considered suspects.
Talk about projection...th e one who see's threats everywhere when there are none apparent... is the true threat.
I consider someone planning mass destruction of human lives in the name of a belief religious or otherwise a terrorist.
I think one of the main reasons that the families of the foreign terrorists are not interviewed is because THEY DON'T LIVE HERE!!!!
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