XPost: alt.politics.libertarian   
   From: anarcissie@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:35:38 -0500, jigo wrote:   
   > ...   
   > It's a more debatable point when violence is justified.  Considering the   
   > enormous number of people murdered by the state, I would say that some   
   > forms are.  But it is unethical to kill innocent civilians the way that   
   > Al Qaeda and the Middle East terrorist groups do.  I would suggest a   
   > policy of "selective terrorism" something like that developed by Michael   
   > Collins during the Irish war of independence. Collins took part in the   
   > Easter Rebellion of 1916, but, unlike the other leaders, he was not   
   > executed by the British purely by chance. Collins used selective terror   
   > against an individual or group in order to bring down a government. The   
   > use of selective terror is based on our position within the governmental   
   > system. Terrorist acts are limited to ensure that innocent bystanders   
   > are not hurt.  This concept was formulated by anarchists in the   
   > nineteenth century but declined in the twentieth.  "Anarchists also   
   > introduced the observation that terrorism has a communicative effect.   
   > When a bomb explodes, society asks why. The need to know why an act was   
   > committed provides the perpetrators of the terrorist act a stage to   
   > which an audience is ready to listen. Thus the concept of propaganda by   
   > deeds was added to the development of modern terrorism. Terrorism was a   
   > tool of communication." ...   
      
   And what better way to carry on the struggle than to   
   advocate terrorism in a forum available for everyone to   
   read, including the police?  That'll show them!   
      
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