On 2026-08-27 12:48 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:A 'terrorist' is condemned for his fundamental beliefs/ethnicity. A 'hijacker', merely for commandeering private property.On Aug 27, 2026 at 6:49:41 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>I'm really not sure why the executive who wrote this edict thinks that plane hijacking is "better" than destroying buildings and thousands of people but he clearly does. It's probably as simple as "it sounds less bad" to hijack a few planes than to destroy (or damage in the case of the Pentagon) huge buildings with thousands of people inside them. But anyone who has the vaguest familiarity with the events KNOWS that 3000 people died, way more than in any plane hijacking ever (and probably all the plane hijackings that have ever happened).
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>Our "beloved" state broadcaster, the CBC, apparently anticipating>
imminent stories on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, has
instructed its journalists to NOT refer to those attacks as acts of
terrorism. The guy whose in charge of such things has told them to refer
to these events as plane hijackings.
As ridiculous as that is, aren't plane hijacking by definition terrorism?
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If 9-11 doesn't qualify as terrorism, what does?
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But this is the same organization that finds "terrorists" unacceptable but accepts "militants". I suppose "militants" sounds "less bad" than "terrorists" to these loons. My philosophy professor probably would have said that this is "a distinction without a difference".
The government that established the CBC and funds them with our tax dollars has designated various groups as terrorists so it surprises me a little that CBC is so squeamish in its use of the same words; then again, however far to the left the Liberal Party is, the CBC tends to be even further left.
The host here is Ben Mulroney, whose father was Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney.
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Unfortunately, no one has chosen to even ask questions about the
background of the individual at CBC who gave this directive. His name
sounds rather Arab to me, making me wonder if we're letting the Muslim
Brotherhood or ISIS directly appoint the leaders in the CBC now.
Remember, this is the same CBC who imitates the BBC by refusing to call
Hamas a terrorist organization; they are merely "militants".
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It's incredible that the CBC apparently wants us to believe that 9/11
was merely a group of plane hijackings that had an unexpected side
effect of putting three jets into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon (and
one in a Pennsylvania field)!
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The panel is right in this case: the CBC's news organization needs an
enema to get rid of the people making these decisions, although
privatizing it altogether would be even better.
| Date | Sujet | # | Auteur | |
| 27 Aug14:49 |  [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 9 | Rhino | |
| 27 Aug16:12 |   Re: [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 1 | moviePig | |
| 27 Aug17:48 |  Re: [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 7 | BTR1701 | |
| 27 Aug18:19 |  Re: [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 1 | moviePig | |
| 27 Aug18:24 | Re: [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 5 | Rhino | |
| 27 Aug19:38 | Re: [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 1 | moviePig | |
| 27 Aug21:45 | Re: [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 3 | Rhino | |
| 27 Aug23:06 | Re: [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 2 | BTR1701 | |
| 28 Aug01:00 | Re: [OT] CBC says 9/11 was *not* a terrorist attack | 1 | Rhino |
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