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   From: callasberrGANSPAM@tinet.ie   
      
   "Howard9"  wrote in reply to me:   
      
   > I can say the same to you.  When people are challenged to state that   
   > they oppose violence and then toss in all kinds of superfluous   
   > issues to the basket, that is just a tactic of deception and   
   > diversion.   
      
    Er, no, because as you now recognise (below), violence is not the real   
   issue even for you.   
      
   >> An act of violence does not cease to be such simply because it was   
   >> performed in a good cause, just as terrorist tactics are not the   
   >> sole prerogative of groups of whom you disapprove.   
   >   
   > Using your 'definition'   
      
    I don't recall defining anything, but perhaps it's implicit   
      
   > then I support whatever violence, anywhere and   
   > anytime, that it takes to liberate people from captivity, oppression   
   > and non-democratic regimes.   
      
    Wow ! You cannot possibly realise how many "terrorist" organisations   
   share this view !   
      
   > Terrorism is by definition not aimed at   
   > liberation as it is in it's very nature intended to instill terror   
   > among the populous.   
      
    I don't know who defined terrorism that way, or if it is really a   
   generally accepted definition, but if it is, then your heroes the WW2   
   Allies were terrorists.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)