Thursday, July 31, 2008, 8:43 PM
Terrorism Part 1
Have been reading about Terrorism recently, thought I should share a little about it, so here goes...
Terror is an alarming emotion, to provoke it is to invite alarm. When it is used as a tool of social change, it invites to us a form social alarm, a disturbance to the basic sense of social order. It is rare, few of us will experience it directly, it is rare, but yet important because whenever it happens, it is a momentous social event. It impacts on the direct victims but more importantly, is all of us who lose a sense of confidence and security in social order. We are victimized, by the horrific act of seemingly senseless violence against innocent strangers for political ends. It makes us wonder if society, is somehow falling apart???
An opinion of terrorism:
- Terrorism is a tactical phenomenon that fluctuates according to geographical and cultural variables, it cannot be defined. It is intangible.
- Terrorism is sometimes a tool of revolutionaries and nationalists, but is actually most frequently used by governments to maintain state power
- It can be used as a tactic in guerrilla campaigns, but most guerillas are not terrorists
- Ideological terrorism is not exclusive to the revolutionary left
- Some form of criminalities cannot and should not be distinguished from terrorism
- Some forms of terrorism cannot and should not be distinguished from warfare
- Terrorism is not neccessarily a revolution, neither is it the other way round
- The theory and rhetoric of revolution are even further removed from terrorism than revolutionary acts
- Terrorism is difficult to study objectively since it involves some deep political emotions
- Specific terrorists can be defeated with logical policies and tactics, but incidents will still continue, for it cannot be ever eliminated completely
- Just about everybody is willing to support some form of terrorism, to understand it, we must know that it comes in a variety of ways
Stay tuned for the sequel... Lol
