Reply #113: For me, no...terrorism would never be a way to fight back.

[Berry Cool]

But then again, I have been raised with different values.

If my family was killed by some serial killer and I knew it, but somehow the guy was never caught and punished, I wouldn't try to go hunt him down and get vigilante justice. The thought might be tempting, but I would not pursue it.

I agree, the bliv does not have his eye in the right place. But if what happened had been prevented from happening, I think it would only have been because the tools could have been in place to stop it. Preventing the crackpot behavior in the first place would have been a lot harder.

And I cannot lay blame for 9/11 solely at the feet of the "bastards who hounded Clinton for a BJ." Bastards though they were, they were not the ones who hijacked and flew those planes.

I still believe we are all ultimately responsible for how we respond to the circumstances of our lives...as unhappy as we may find them to be. No matter how bad off we feel we are or who is to blame, no one forces us to use these kinds of tactics, either to attempt to get our way or to express our rage. If people choose to do that, they are the ones responsible...and the politicians are responsible only for not attempting to stop it. Yes, they could do a better job of trying to make a better world for everyone and not just the rich, privileged people living in certain parts of it...but they are still not the ones to blame first when certain well-funded parties commit acts of terrorism allegedly in the name of the un-rich and un-privileged. There is no "if" about that.