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you cant even start to talk about "terrorism" without a detailed understanding of context.
the idea that it originates with the attempts to suppress it is the kind of plotline you see on tv, and that only because it allows for narratives that are internally consistent but nothing else to unfold within a limited amount of time without posing problems that are too complex for viewers, who might in response be too depressed to take in the vital advertising material for which the infotainment you are watching is a delivery system.
"terrorism" is a political response to particular political situations.
fema, an arm of the american state, operating within the ideological bubble characteristic of the american system, the one that is characterized by the absolute refusal to co-ordinate what "we" think is happening in the world as a function of the maintenance of "the amurican way of life" with what is in fact happening in the world as a function of the maintenance of the "amurican way of life." if you are going to eliminate many (not all) of the factors that might actually explain "terrorism" a priori, you will end up cooking up all kinds of arbitrary "explanations."
shifting the notion of "terrorism" onto a "logical" level that would equate it with genocide is idiotic.
that a response to "terrorism" could plausibly be a repeat of kurtz's journal entry--you know, "exterminate the brutes"----shows the problems with such logic as there is in this american phantasm "the terrorist"
these problems are all the more evident when this bizarre-o narrative is processed through the politics of the american militia set. you would think that fantasies of genocide would be enough to marginalize the speaker, not derail a thread.
ah well.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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