terrorism
Moderator: Alyrium Denryle
What are these people... The Black Knight?with the PLO and anyone related to them, anything short of a death threat is wasting your time.
HELLLO Have you had broken ribs before? Any sort of throwing motion or even breathing HURTS LIKE HELL and if you try to hard you'll go into shock, pass out and possible die
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe
Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
- Newtonian Fury
- Padawan Learner
- Posts: 323
- Joined: 2002-09-16 05:24pm
IG-88E, why you are trying to excuse the excessive use of violence by the Israelis? What are your reasons for supporting a tyranny in the Middle East?
As far as I am concerned, fighting for one's freedom requires the use of "terrorism". The definition of terrorism has been drastically changed and distorted since Sept. 11 to basically persecute a group of people. People need to wake up and realize that Palestinians aren't the only "bad" guys in this conflict.
As far as I am concerned, fighting for one's freedom requires the use of "terrorism". The definition of terrorism has been drastically changed and distorted since Sept. 11 to basically persecute a group of people. People need to wake up and realize that Palestinians aren't the only "bad" guys in this conflict.
-
- Fucking Awesome
- Posts: 13834
- Joined: 2002-07-04 03:21pm
By the way, slightly off-topic, but I believe the use of the atomic bomb in Japan was fully justified. It, as we all know, forced the Japanese to surrender. Yes, hundreds of thousands of people died. Yes, it was a horrible, tragic incident.
But know what would have been even more horrible? An invasion of Japan. Absolute butchery. In all liklihood, millions would have been killed. It would have been Okawina(spelling mistake) a thousandfold. The bombings, by forcing the Imperial government to capitulate, most likely saved more people than they slew.
But know what would have been even more horrible? An invasion of Japan. Absolute butchery. In all liklihood, millions would have been killed. It would have been Okawina(spelling mistake) a thousandfold. The bombings, by forcing the Imperial government to capitulate, most likely saved more people than they slew.
The End of Suburbia
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
No IG-88 you don't seem to get it but so far you seem to be justfing the fact that rock throwing kids where gunned down by Tanks as ok* because just gassing them or shooting them with rubber bullets and breaking bones is not enough.... Why? Do you think the Palestienens are all mini-verisons of the Black Knight?possibly die, huh? ok, death or incapacitation.
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe
Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
- Newtonian Fury
- Padawan Learner
- Posts: 323
- Joined: 2002-09-16 05:24pm
- Newtonian Fury
- Padawan Learner
- Posts: 323
- Joined: 2002-09-16 05:24pm
- Newtonian Fury
- Padawan Learner
- Posts: 323
- Joined: 2002-09-16 05:24pm
- Newtonian Fury
- Padawan Learner
- Posts: 323
- Joined: 2002-09-16 05:24pm
Is that a fact or opinion?
What would a peaceful solution do? Why should the Palestinians be the ones to offer peace? They're the real victims, NOT the Israeli civilians being killed by suicide bombers. Israel keeps saying the world is asking for unilateral concession, but it is the one making the unilateral aggression.
What would a peaceful solution do? Why should the Palestinians be the ones to offer peace? They're the real victims, NOT the Israeli civilians being killed by suicide bombers. Israel keeps saying the world is asking for unilateral concession, but it is the one making the unilateral aggression.
Explain why it's wrong to see only numbers of dead innocent people. Do you believe that the grief of a widow or the lifelong sorrow of an orphan is somehow mitigated if his or her loved ones died as "collateral damage" rather than a "terrorist attack"? If 600 innocent people die at the hands of group A for the "right reason" and 100 people die at the hands of group B for the "wrong reason", justify your implicit belief that group A is good and group B is bad.
I said it before, and I'll say it again. Killing innocent people is bad. People who try to differentiate between their preferred method of killing innocent people and somebody else's preferred method of killing innocent people have no moral compass. In the end, it IS just a matter of numbers; ideally zero, but in the next best case, as low as possible.
I see. So you think the Criminal Code of Canada is wrong? There is no difference between premeditated murder and homicides of pashion ... throw the degrees out the window ... the dead are just as dead? Or what about culpable manslaughter ... I mean is the widow any less distraught? Or how about nun-culpable manslaughter? Oh wait again its just another tick on the death toll. Who cares if its accidental or some bastard tortures small children to death ... it IS just a matter of numbers.
Remember kid's the moral of the story is all that matters is how many bodies are left on the ground.
Maybe one day I'll actually try to talk to you about Israel (and hence the IDF's role) in Palestine, and the numerous little details your rant blanketly forgets. But frankly I imagine you wouldn't change your position and I'm way the hell too entrenched in mine to even pretend I'm objective. Somehow I think we would both end up with the feeling of banging our heads against the wall.
I said it before, and I'll say it again. Killing innocent people is bad. People who try to differentiate between their preferred method of killing innocent people and somebody else's preferred method of killing innocent people have no moral compass. In the end, it IS just a matter of numbers; ideally zero, but in the next best case, as low as possible.
I see. So you think the Criminal Code of Canada is wrong? There is no difference between premeditated murder and homicides of pashion ... throw the degrees out the window ... the dead are just as dead? Or what about culpable manslaughter ... I mean is the widow any less distraught? Or how about nun-culpable manslaughter? Oh wait again its just another tick on the death toll. Who cares if its accidental or some bastard tortures small children to death ... it IS just a matter of numbers.
Remember kid's the moral of the story is all that matters is how many bodies are left on the ground.
Maybe one day I'll actually try to talk to you about Israel (and hence the IDF's role) in Palestine, and the numerous little details your rant blanketly forgets. But frankly I imagine you wouldn't change your position and I'm way the hell too entrenched in mine to even pretend I'm objective. Somehow I think we would both end up with the feeling of banging our heads against the wall.
- Newtonian Fury
- Padawan Learner
- Posts: 323
- Joined: 2002-09-16 05:24pm
Yes, I am. Palestinians are more innocent in this case because they are the oppressed. It's their land, and their land is occupied. They have the right to use any means necessary to drive out the invaders.IG-88E wrote:so, your saying that one side's civilians are more innocent that the other side's? and you figure that HOW?
I know that some people(maybe not on here, but in the news or whatever) made the point that the Palestinians should use passive resistance(e.g. Gandhi's method, peaceful black civil rights marches/sit-ins). While I applaud the courage and resiliancy of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to embrace bodily harm and humiliation without retribution, not everyone can take their approach. Sometimes, it's just plain stupid to do so, especially when your opponent is willing and able to exterminate you. Besides, it's against human nature to just accept injustice. One wishes to fight it, and the easiest solution is through silence.
- Stuart Mackey
- Drunken Kiwi Editor of the ASVS Press
- Posts: 5946
- Joined: 2002-07-04 12:28am
- Location: New Zealand
- Contact:
If one uses that reasoning America should never have been a nation state.Emperor Chrostas the Crue wrote:You want to talk about wall of ignorance? Why is my point about the moral difference between rock throwers, and pizza eaters NEVER adressed? It is the central point of my argument. All you do is sidestep this point, and say they they are justified in engaging in such loathsome behaviour.
The "palestinians" NEVER had a state of their own, Israel is depriving them of NOTHING. My wealth doesn't impoverish you one penny. If they worked constructivly as hard as the do destrucivly, they would be halfway to paradise by now.(build farms and factories, not bombs!)
snip
Their work ethic or lack thereof, has nothing to do with it, better a ruinnation of their own making than one detimined by others, Isrealies or Arab.
- Stuart Mackey
- Drunken Kiwi Editor of the ASVS Press
- Posts: 5946
- Joined: 2002-07-04 12:28am
- Location: New Zealand
- Contact:
Talk about a false analogy! to infer that rocks and bows and arrows are remotly comparible to a modern rifle, let alone tanks and rockets is pure BS of the highest order. Kids with rocks is a police matter at most there is no need for Isrealie action in this regard. This does not excuse Palistinian action but overeaction of this kind does not improve matters, quite the opposite. [/u]Emperor Chrostas the Crue wrote:For those of you who think that throwing rocks is not combat, you are woefully ignorant of history. ( Darth Wong)Up until the bow and arrow, throwing rocks and spears WAS high tech combat. You should also note, that few of these engagements are purely stoners VS tankers. The infantrymen in jeeps, and on foot, ARE vulnerable to stones, and regularly take causualtys! (Including fatalities!)
Using ANY potentialy lethal weapon, against armed soldiers, IS engaging in combat, however this definition outrages you sence of morals.
snip
- The Yosemite Bear
- Mostly Harmless Nutcase (Requiescat in Pace)
- Posts: 35211
- Joined: 2002-07-21 02:38am
- Location: Dave's Not Here Man
Acutal they already didwhile Isreal massacred people who didn't fight back, rather than people who do?!
Feb 1998:A peceful March by Palenstien Protesters was halted when the Isrialy army opened fire on the crowd claming that some-one had throw a rock, Eight Palensitens died, twenty six where wounded
Jan 2000: A Palestienan man was gun down by the IA after bending down to change the radio station as he apporched a checkpoint, Sixteen bullets where found in his body
Nov 2001-Present, Hundreds are killed each month by the IA as they try and force Palenstienans from former Jewish Settlements which where former Palenstien settlements, those that resist forcible deportation are killed on the spot, Hundreds more are killed by accident each month incullding an Roman Caltholic nun and sixteen children when the IA opened up with RPGs and bullets on a building where a suspected Palenstian sniper was said to be hiding instead killing a classroom full of children and thier teacher
In the last six year less than twenty memebers of the IA have been charged with manslaughter, TWO where convicted....
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe
Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
- Newtonian Fury
- Padawan Learner
- Posts: 323
- Joined: 2002-09-16 05:24pm
So fighting back implies that Palestinians are NOT helpless and outpowered?! Get real. Many rape victims try to fight back even when the rapist is much stronger than they are. Does that mean the police should not help them simply because they tried to protect themselves?IG-88E wrote:Please. You think Europe and the MidEast would sit around while Isreal massacred people who didn't fight back, rather than people who do?!
Being defiant doesn't mean you are on a level playing ground. The act of defiance itself is a mark of courage, but it doesn't signal power.