fkusumot said:
Freedom fighters. Maybe this is a semantic argument but I don't think so. I wouldn't call Robert E. Lee a terrorist either. I'm not trying to make an argument for some "just cause" or moral certitude. I'm just saying there's a difference between war, a popular uprising and Timothy McVeigh. Not that I'm disagreeing with you, akuma587, if your designation of (some of?) the Founding Fathers as terrorists was meant to frame them in a notional context that seems to turn the neocon view back on itself. In other news, Gallup has Obama back at 50%, McCain at 43%. The road to 270 Electoral Votes seems increasingly more likely to go Obama's way then McCain's way. |
No, I totally agree with you, but I am just saying whether or not someone is a terrorist or a freedom fighter depends on what side of the coin you look at many of the times. Not in every, or maybe even most situations, but enough that the distinction can be arbitrary sometimes.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
