CaféAuLait;7128661 said:
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Wait, are you serious? You said:
The term domestic terrorism is simply a label extremists hang on people they wish to destroy.
So their plotting to blow up Fort Dix and blowing up houses along half a city block and killing three of their own did not terrorize anyone? Their setting off bombs in police cars, the Pentagon and Capitol did not terrorize anyone? Them being convicted of murder and killing did not terrorize anyone? Ayers still proclaims he is not sorry and would do it all over again.
Maybe if Kathy Boudin had been looked at as a TERRORIST instead of only being seriously injured in that explosion she may have not have been involved in the murder of two police officers and one security guard years later and convicted of murder. As it stands she was convicted of murder BUT is now teaching in our colleges and given prestigious titles.
How 1960s Radicals Ended Up Teaching Your Kids - The Daily Beast
One man's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
When Bin Laden was killing Russians in Afghanistan for the horrible crime of teaching girls to read, Ronald Reagan called him a "Freedom Fighter".
When he flew planes into buildings full of rich Americans, he was a "terrorist".
See the difference?
There is none.
He's a guy willing to use violence to acheive his goals. So was Ayers.
Terrorist is one of those words we need to retire.