XPost: alt.politics.libertarian   
   From: retired@home.com   
      
   Anarcissie wrote:   
   > 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!   
      
   The post does not advocate terrorism; selective terrorism is action   
   against those specific people who are attacking or oppressing you in   
   some manner.  It's unfortunate that it includes the word "terrorism"   
   because people have an immediate negative reaction to the word, but   
   historically that's what it's been called.   
      
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