Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On 3/01/2025 8:32 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 19:24:31 +0800, Sylvia Else wrote:
 

On 02-Jan-25 2:00 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

Is what 'they' said at the outset. Now it emerges he had an ISIS flag
in his truck at the time! No wonder fewer and fewer people are trusting
the legacy media. This is why it's so important to have citizen
journalists mobilised and fact-checking what's really going on when
these incidents occur. I don't suppose the rather embarrassing presence
of the flag would have been revealed otherwise.

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For years the conspiracy theorists were telling us that governments were
using the threat of terrorism to take away our freedoms.
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Now the conspiracy theory is that governments are hiding the existence
of terrorism from us.
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So which is it?

 Both. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter and the 'bad
guy' changes from year to year as circumstances demand. Most people's
memories don't go back far enough to notice and 'The Press' - who should
be exposing these inconsistencies - are pointedly ignoring them.

Wrong. A terrorist is somebody who kills people to attract attention to his or her political cause. There are lunatics around who kill people for totally irrational reasons that have very little to do with any political cause. They may imagine that they are involved in some political cause or other, but the kind of lunacy that lets you kill people wrecks your capacity for any meaningful involvement with other people.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney