XPost: alt.politics.libertarian
From: anarcissie@gmail.com

On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:35:38 -0500, jigo wrote:
> ...
> It's a more debatable point when violence is justified.  Considering the
> enormous number of people murdered by the state, I would say that some
> forms are.  But it is unethical to kill innocent civilians the way that
> Al Qaeda and the Middle East terrorist groups do.  I would suggest a
> policy of "selective terrorism" something like that developed by Michael
> Collins during the Irish war of independence. Collins took part in the
> Easter Rebellion of 1916, but, unlike the other leaders, he was not
> executed by the British purely by chance. Collins used selective terror
> against an individual or group in order to bring down a government. The
> use of selective terror is based on our position within the governmental
> system. Terrorist acts are limited to ensure that innocent bystanders
> are not hurt.  This concept was formulated by anarchists in the
> nineteenth century but declined in the twentieth.  "Anarchists also
> introduced the observation that terrorism has a communicative effect.
> When a bomb explodes, society asks why. The need to know why an act was
> committed provides the perpetrators of the terrorist act a stage to
> which an audience is ready to listen. Thus the concept of propaganda by
> deeds was added to the development of modern terrorism. Terrorism was a
> tool of communication." ...

And what better way to carry on the struggle than to
advocate terrorism in a forum available for everyone to
read, including the police?  That'll show them!

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