Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition condemns terrorism and political assassination. When the colonized uses them, the leftist colonizer becomes unbearably embarrassed. He makes an effort to separate them from the colonized's voluntary action; to make an epiphenomenon out of his struggle. They are spontaneous outbursts of masses too long oppressed, or better yet, acts by unstable, untrustworthy elements which the leader of the movement has difficulty in controlling. Even in Europe, very few people admitted that the oppression of the colonized was so great, the disproportion of forces so overwhelming, that they had reached the point, whether morally correct or not, of using violent means voluntarily. The leftist colonizer tried in vain to explain actions which seemed incomprehensible, shocking and politically absurd. For example, the death of children and persons outside of the struggle, or even of colonized persons who, without being basically opposed, disapproved of some small aspect of the undertaking. At first he was so disconcerted that the best he could do was to deny such actions; for they would fit nowhere in his view of the problem. That it could be the cruelty of oppression which explained the blind fury of the reaction hardly seemed to be an argument to him; he can't approve acts of the colonized which he condemns in the colonizers because these are exactly why he condemns colonization.
Then, after having suspected the information to be false, he says, as a last resort, that such deeds are errors, that is, they should not belong to the essence of the movement. He bravely asserts that the leaders certainly disapprove of them. A newspaper-man who always supported the cause of the colonized, weary of waiting for censure which was not forthcoming, finally called on certain leaders to take a public stand against the outrages, Of course, received no reply; he did not have the additional naïveté to insist.
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God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.
Manil SuriTags: terrorism
The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.
Tit ElingtinTags: history patriotism terrorism terror
Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.
Dan BrownTags: death terrorism dan-brown robert-langdon angels-and-demons
...if anybody was going to blow up the Superland™ Wal-Mart, it was going to be me. Not some fucking crusty punk.
Vanessa VeselkaTags: terrorism
Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.
Thisuri WanniarachchiTags: humor anger-management terrorism hilarious
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
Cory DoctorowTags: humor humour computers funny lightning terrorism banning umbrellas
It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible
Osama bin LadenTags: united-states economy terrorism al-qaeda
Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I’m still alive.
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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