Terrorists really anger me!!

[vlad321]

Kasz216 said:

It's not just "Violence".  There has to be a significant level of violence.  Otherwise you could argue any school bully who harrasses another kid for having a different politcal view or different religion is a terorist.  That is asinine.

You are taking a dictionary definition without any actual context involved within.  If death or SERIOUS injury isn't a part of it you can't consider in terrorism.  Otherwise, a good 40-50% of the population has probably been a "terrorist" at some point in their lives.

Though, yeah lets analize these.

 

Tea Party - Not supported by any of the revoluitonary leaders.  A common occurence of protest at the time... everywhere.   Happened all the time.  completly harmless... merchants were offered to be repaid. 

 

Tarring and Feathering - Done to protest taxes, not supported by any revolutionary leaders, completly harmless.

 

Militia Tactics - How wars were fought afterwords.  How war was fought in the colonies at the actual time... were Blitz tactics by the Germans terrorism then?  Planes?  The development of new weapons?  Every development that increase your opponents deaths and minimizes yours is suddenly terrorism now?

 

You're grasping at straws... straws that aren't even there.

Except that tarring and feathering goes beyond just harming. As I said earlier, back then people put a lot more weight on dignity and honor. Hell, the japanese even killed themselves back then over something like that.

Tea Party was supported by Alexander Hamilton, actually. I also don't recall anyone being repaid for the Boston Tea Party.

Tarring and feathering was indeed not supported, as far as I can remember, by leaders, but given the whole BS they had going on with honor/dignity it was obviously done to terrorize tax collectors from collecting taxes. It was doen to protest taxes, yes. Also today's terrorists are protesting something as well. ETA is protesting Spanish rule over the Basque Country, IRA protest the same ovewr in Northern Ireland. All these groups just happen to have the ability to inflict many casualties far more easily than anyone did back in the 18th century.

As for military tactics, I don't remember the Blitz being covert at all, or airplanes for that matter. Today's roadside bombs and ambushes were 18th century's shoot from the bush or attack at night.