SCN: Re:

[patrick]

I would certainly like to hear from someone who believes in
terrorism. I'd like to know why they support such a thing. Wouldn't
that be nice? I, for one, would like to know.

However, I do know that some commit such acts because they have no
other way to express their anger or disagreement with the powers that
generally run the world. That does not mean I agree with them. I'm
only saying that some people do things because they feel they have no
other way to act and be heard.

Patrick.

--- "J. Johnson" <jj at scn.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, er-chan wrote:
> 
> > [....]
> > JJ>   Before anyone gets carried away in the passions of the
> moment, lets have
> > JJ> a reality check:  First, do we even have any links to "hate
> groups"?   
> > JJ> 
> >       Well do we link to hate groups?
> 
>         That's what _I_ asked!  Your proposal supposes such links,
> but
> apparently you don't know of any.  
>  
> > JJ>   Second, what is the point in removing such links?
> > 
> >      They have websites to recruit more people to hate.  Some
> >     people hate so much they act on their hatred to kill
> >     innocent people at work, the more the better for
> >     their twisted brain(?).  You want to help them recruit??
> 
>    Which misses the primary question here, of whether we have links
> to any
> such sites.  
> 
>    Of greater concern is your ready and overly simplistic
> attribution of
> all that has happened to "twisted brains".  To kill thousands is
> certainly
> despicable.  But to so characterize the hatred of many millions of
> people--and thereby implicitly dismiss any other explanation--is a
> grave
> error.  It trivializes what has happened, and it precludes both the
> possibility of underlying issues to address and any responsibility
> for
> doing so.
> 
>   I think we need to _add_ links to diverse sites, and _especially_
> sites we don't agree with.
> 
> === JJ
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