And I don't need no Marxism
Posted on 02/24/2010 4:18:14 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Joseph Stack had barely finished flying his airplane into a Texas office building when the battle over his legacy began.
Bloggers on the left asked why people — especially people on the right — weren’t calling him a terrorist. “If this had been done by a brownish-looking Muslim guy whose suicide note paralleled Islamist political themes,” wrote Matthew Yglesias, then right wingers would be “demanding that anyone who refused to label the attack ‘terrorism’ be put up on treason charges.”
Bloggers on the right, such as Conn Carroll, asked why people — especially people on the left — were acting as if Stack was a “conservative Tea Party nut” when the anti-tax animus that led him to point his plane at I.R.S. offices was only one part of an eclectic ideology.
These are arguments worth having, for two reasons.
Joseph Stack saw himself as part of a cause, as one in a long line of fighters against tyranny.
First, the label “terrorist” shapes our immediate response to attacks and our long-term policies. We’ve invaded countries and altered domestic surveillance laws as part of a “war on terror,” whereas we wouldn’t do such things as part of a “war on a nut who flew his plane into a building and is dead now.”
Second, given the apparent momentum of the Tea Party movement, it would be nice to know if Stack’s kamikaze mission was a not-all-that-shocking emanation from it — whether, as some claim, more than a few Tea Partiers are unhinged.
In common usage, a “terrorist” is someone who attacks in the name of a political cause and aims to spread terror — to foster fear that such attacks will be repeated until grievances are addressed.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com ...
So the New York Times thinks the War of Independence was a bunch of terrorists murdering The Queen’s Own ?
You would think they would give terrorists a little slack since BO’sown father & Grandfather have been accused of being connected to the Mau Mau.
Sorry NYTimes but you’d be hard pressed to find a tea partier who would quote Marx and include the Communist’s creed in their writings!
And I don't need no Marxism
Tea Party terrorist [not] ping.
Yup, cuz the Tea Party is all about Marx and Fairlie.
Look Libtards, Stack was a communist who got busted cheating on his taxes.
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