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Powerclown,
From your requirements, it really looks as if you're just trying to paint people into a corner where they have to type the word "terrorist". It is hard to see that you posted this with any other possible outcome in mind.
If this is in fact what you were intending, I'm curious as to what you thought it would accomplish - just getting people to admit that the word terrorist can be used appropriately? I'm not sure this will acomplish much. The word terrorist is a category or type of person, as coin is a type of object. A terrorist could be trying to accomplish all sorts of objectives (which have varying degrees of legitimacy), and that is the point that people who reject that label have been trying to make. Frankly, the word only conveys a couple of things - first, that the individual or group in question is separate from whoever the name-caller is (as I've never seen anyone label themself as a terrorist), and that in most cases the people in question do not act on the behalf of a recognized government. Even the second part is coming into question with the current focus on "terrorist regimes" - which is a bit of an oxymoron. I see it as an attempt to paint nations who don't do what we like with the bad associations that come with the word "terrorist".
So, Powerclown, I'd like to ask you if your point was to make people use the word terrorist as a descriptor. If so, what does this accomplish? If not, what exactly were you getting at, because I think most of us missed the point.
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