Posts by Russell Brown
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My point is that terrorism is in the eye of the beholder.
So that's your point?
Now we can all get some sleep!
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You have to accept that "act of terrorism" and "terrorism" are not the same. That's like saying "act of coitus" and "sexuality" are the same. It doesn't add up.
But what is terrorism if not carrying out terrorist acts?
I think I'm with Stephen ...
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Said Helen Clark of Mr Zaoui?
She never said he was a terrorist. Without wishing to defend Labour's handling of that saga, what Clark actually did say, early on, was that Zaoui's party, FIS, had links to al Qaeda.
She did so on police advice, and fairly shortly afterwards said she could not "corroborate" what she'd been told and it was probably untrue.
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A loon? Excuse? Minimise?
I hate anti-choice freakazoids just as much as the next red blooded liberal. I'm not sure how my arguments can be taken as excusing or minimising.
You seemed to be putting a lot of energy into some tenuous arguments. Roeder shot Tiller in front of witnesses (who I assume have at least given descriptions, if not IDd photos of Roeder), the police have him in custody, they've charged him. While he won't be convicted of murder for a while yet, I really can't see the problem with calling it a murder.
My simple point is that terrorism/terrorist is loaded and its definition has been erased in New Zealand -- and a repeal, as you'll know, is no slip of the pen.
Again, I'm not sure where you're coming from. What was that I/S quoted to you, if not a definition of terrorism in our law?
You're also determinedly ignoring the extensive history of such attacks, on the same people, by people with the same beliefs and connections as Roeder. I don't think you're a loon, I just don't understand your argument.
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Media Matters found an O'Reilly radio show from 2006 where he starts riffing about if he could "get his hands on" Tiller. The money quotes are at the end, about 2.30, but students for the form might wish to listen to the preamble to see exactly how much of a ghastly bore he really is ...
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Hi all,
Just to explain, I had Grant banned (or, rather, his account frozen) a bit after 4pm, but I didn't want to say so because he's in until he logs out or his login cookie expires. I was going out and I didn't want him seeing that and acting out while he had the chance. Sad, but true.
I also banned p forrester jarvie last week. He was a bit offended.
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It's all very well to blame the tabloids for the Susan Boyle backlash, but could it also have been due to the fact that, well, her voice was nice but it wasn't outstanding?
I don't think that explains what The Sun did though. It's not about the competition -- I mean, who cares, really? -- but actively turning on her because they sensed weakness ... that was hideous.
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Sorry Grant, your argument is absurd and inconsistent and while it might make sense to you, it doesn't to anyone else.
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I am happy that you wish to distance yourself from the idea that such acts define all pro-lifers or all right wingers.
As a series of people have pointed out to you Grant, you are the only one who has raised such an argument. It you don't desist from this ridiculous, bad-faith line of argument, I will ban you as a troll.
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This result from James' Google link is astonishing. Sixty right-wing domestic terror plots foiled between 1995 (the Oklahoma bombing) and 2005?
These are some of the ones listed as "recent":
May 20, 2005: Two New Jersey men, Craig Orler and Gabriel Garafa, who allegedly belong to neo-Nazi and skinhead groups, were charged with illegally selling to police informants guns and 60 pounds of urea to use in a bomb.
Oct. 25, 2004: FBI agents in Tennessee arrested Demetrius "Van" Crocker after he allegedly tried to purchase ingredients for deadly sarin nerve gas and C-4 plastic explosives from an undercover agent. Crocker, who was involved with white supremacist groups, was charged with trying to get explosives to destroy a building and faces more than 20 years in prison.
April 10, 2003: The FBI raided the home of William Krar, of Noonday, Texas, and discovered an arsenal of more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs and remote control briefcase bombs, and almost 2 pounds of sodium cyanide, enough to make a bomb that could kill everyone in a large building. Krar, reportedly associated with white supremacist groups, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for possession of a chemical weapon.
The worrying thing is that there have been multiple reports of a resurgence of these groups this year. You have to wonder how long their sheer stupidity will continue to get them busted, but there can hardly be any case that Homeland Security should not be ramping up its surveillance of these people.
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