Archive for the ‘Terrorism’ Category
October 20th, 2006 | 
Author: I originally wrote this in December of 2004. This is the first part
Dec, 26, 2004, reposted October 20, 2006
Dealing With Terrorism-What Is Terrorism-1
The USA has been in a war on terrorism now for several years. And yet, it appears that the USA does not have a legal definition for terrorism. As a consequence, people in the USA are not officially charged with terrorism but other crimes. There is quite an interesting breakdown of this oddity on a web page maintained by the North Carolina Wesleyan College (NCWC) here. Read the rest of this entry »
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I had mistakenly labeled this as part 1 previously. It is part 2
January, 4, 2005
Dealing With Terrorism-9/11 In America
Like most Americans, I’ll never forget September 11, 2001. I got up early in the morning to go to work and heard about the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center. I figured it was a freak accident. As I was getting ready for work, I had on my portable radio set, listening in fascinated horror when the second plane crashed into it. Of course, by then it was obvious this was a deliberate attack. I woke my British-born wife to tell her about it, and at first she thought I was making a bad joke.