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thanks goodness it's not terrorism.
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"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton -
Yanks do the same, so of course it isn't terrism
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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It would seem I happen to agree with the Iranian gvoernment for a change
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It's not terrorism, it's some other word with an almost identical definition. This is very important.<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures
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I think the word you're looking for is "assassination".No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Were the Kennedy assassinations (either of them) typically described as terrorism?No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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I think killing a republican presidential candidate would fall under 'mercy killing' or euthanasia. But I'm still in favour of letting them continue to kill themselves.
There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Depends who's doing/sponsoring the assassination. Oswald was a lone nut, conspiracy theories be damned. If the American Nazi Party or the American Communist Party or the American Anarchist Not-Party had been responsible for his assassination, then it would have probably been labelled a terrorist act. If the Soviets had been responsible, then it would have been labelled an act of war.Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures </p>Comment
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Ted Kaczynski was the quintessential "lone nut", I don't think that made him any less a terrorist.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Well there's also (inferred) intent to consider. Oswald was trying to kill Kennedy, full stop, not inspire terror. Kaczynski didn't seem to care who he killed/wounded, because his intent was to scare the hell out of everybody.<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures </p>Comment
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With that in mind, let's move on to the case of Bobby Kennedy; he was an actual presidential candidate, so it applies directly.
Was Sirhan Sirhan a terrorist?No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Don't know, I'm not american
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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AFAIK he was a lone nut with no ulterior motives, so noOriginally posted by The Mad Monk View Post<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures </p>Comment
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x-loin'd
Hush, I'm dealing with you in the other thread.
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Sirhan Sirhan had very clear motives, per his trial:
A motive cited for his actions is the Middle East conflict.[14] After his arrest, Sirhan said, "I can explain it. I did it for my country."[14] Sirhan believed he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy's support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War,[21] which had begun exactly one year to the day before the assassination. During a search of Sirhan's apartment after his arrest, a spiral-bound notebook was found containing a diary entry which demonstrated that his anger had gradually fixated on Robert Kennedy, who had promised to send 50 fighter jets to Israel if he were elected president. Sirhan's journal entry of May 18, 1968, read: "My determination to eliminate R.F.K. is becoming the more and more [sic] of an unshakable obsession...Kennedy must die before June 5th".[9][14] They found other notebooks and diary entries which contained his growing rage at Zionists, particularly at Kennedy; his journals also contained many nonsensical scribbles, which were thought to be his version of "free writing".
I do not think he qualifies as a terrorist, but I don't think that dismissing him as a lone nut works, either.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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