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LanternWaste

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21. On what specifically do you base the statement, "it has an element of being hard to define

Reply to mike_c (Reply #19)

Wed Jun 19, 2013, 04:58 PM

Jun 2013

On what specifically do you base the statement, "it has an element of being hard to define, but easy to recognize". And why is it hard for you to define, and yet easy to recognize?

Seems your personal definition is much more vague the classic definition, and much more open to the very excesses of gvernment you appear to be against.

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FBI arrests 2 local men for alleged terrorist plot [View all] Raine1967 Jun 2013 OP

gee, is every conspiracy to commit murder now "terrorism?" mike_c Jun 2013 #1

When you offer it to the KKK, yes nt geek tragedy Jun 2013 #2

I'm with you how can it be terrorism if you keep it a secret? Xipe Totec Jun 2013 #3

read this longer article and then comment OKNancy Jun 2013 #4

Klan or no, if you attack and nobody knows you attacked, who's going to be terrfied? Xipe Totec Jun 2013 #5

lots of people were KKK members 30, 40, 50 years ago.... mike_c Jun 2013 #6

The KKK was founded as a terrorist organization, and they were terrorists 40, 50 years ago geek tragedy Jun 2013 #8

I think you missed the point... mike_c Jun 2013 #11

How can you think this isn't terrorism? okaawhatever Jun 2013 #10

I am utterly sick of the constant drone of "terrorism, terrorism, terrorism...." mike_c Jun 2013 #13

It begs the question-- what then do you believe terrorism to be defined as? LanternWaste Jun 2013 #18

I suppose, like Potter Stewart's definition of pornography... mike_c Jun 2013 #19

On what specifically do you base the statement, "it has an element of being hard to define LanternWaste Jun 2013 #21

Thank you, Nancy. Raine1967 Jun 2013 #15

From the free dictionary: okaawhatever Jun 2013 #7

so we were terrorists in WW2? mike_c Jun 2013 #9

Hiroshima was an act of state terror. nt geek tragedy Jun 2013 #12

so was Dresden.... mike_c Jun 2013 #14

Agreed magellan Jun 2013 #16

this nut is the same as someone who would set a booby trap and should be charged by local police Sunlei Jun 2013 #17

They were going to X-Ray people to death? Dash87 Jun 2013 #20

They should have checked with the federal government surplus warehouse. DeSwiss Jun 2013 #22