Terrorism is in the eye of the beholder
Leslie Philp
Terrorism; the calculated use of violence, or the threat of violence, against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation and instilling fear.Do you remember the brutal lynchings done by the Ku Klux Klan? Do you remember the massacre at Virginia Tech?
What about the attempt to erase an entire ethnicity by the Nazis? Or the serial rapes and murders of the Green River Killer?
Do we call these people terrorists?
I can only speak for myself, and I say yes. I believe it is internal terrorism for an individual to attack innocent people in order to corrupt, rape, kill, and brainwash.
There have been a number of hate groups throughout history, whites against blacks, neo-Nazis against Jews, and crips against bloods.
Every single group has the common denominator of a deep hatred that was drilled into them.
Timothy McVeigh, one of the Oklahoma City bombers, was of the mentality that his freedom of speech was being taken away and believed that the United States Government committed murder during the raid at the Branch Davidian in Waco, Texas.
1 percent of the general population has mental health problems and are the most likely to act out in violence. Of that 1 percent, the extremists live, breathe and plot.
Jared Loughner, the alleged gunman in the recent Tucson shooting, can be compared to many extremists such as Seung- Hui Cho (Virginia Tech shooter) who murdered 32 people before taking his own life.
Some people would even argue that PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) are terrorists!
If I think about how many hate groups have murdered, raped, and beaten innocent people every single day of my life, then I would probably develop some kind of ulcer and check myself into therapy!
No one wants to live in fear every day of their lives but sometimes you look at all of the carnage and killings and have to ask yourself, “is anyone really safe anymore?”
A sociopath has no conscience and they feel no guilt, shame or remorse. They are manipulative and conning, pathological liars, and they have no capacity to love. I believe this is the definition of a terrorist.
