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Newsweek isPathetic
By encinoman
Newsweek can&;t bring itself to call Joseph Stack, the murderer who crashed his plane into a government office in Austin, Texas and killed a decorated veteran, a terrorist. Their internal debate is here. Managing Editor Kathy Jones: &;Here is my handy guide:
Lone wolfish American attacker who sees gov&;t as threat to personal freedom: bomber, tax protester, survivalist, separatist
Group of Americans bombing/kidnapping to protest U.S. policies on war/poverty/personal freedom/ &; radical left-wing movement, right-wing separatists
All foreign groups or foreign individuals bombing/shooting to protest American gov&;t: terrorists.&;
As Glenn Greenwald puts it, &;So according to Newsweek&;s Managing Editor, only a foreigner who &;protests the American government&; can be a Terrorist. Americans cannot be. &;
If you indiscriminantly murder (or attempt to murder) innocent people you don&;t know in the service of your ideology, you are a terrorist. This includes Timothy McVeigh and partners in crime, Major Hasan, Theodore Kaczynski, and the scumbag who shot two people to death at LAX in 2002 that the FBI still refuses to call terrorism. And Joseph Stack.
Tags: Newsweek, Newsweek-pathetic, terrorism, terrorism-in-the-U.S.
This entry was posted on February 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm and is filed under death-of-journalism, death-of-magazines, Newsweek.
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