There are undoubtedly many who long for your silence, Rico, but if you don’t work you won’t get paid.

ofer:
“I interupt my silence rico”

Aw, you miss me! I knew you couldn’t resist, you softie.

BTW, I miss your silence. Get back to it.

I interupt my silence rico,

It is a legality,  tied to Public Law 107-40 that
it is urgent that all Americans get familiar with.

Many believe, and reporters still do an injustice, the
fact that these wars are by execeutive order,
THEY ARE NOT !!!!!!!
  In Public Law, 107-40,  Congress has give War Powers
to the president to wage war , and future wars, anywhere
in the world, and against anyone he pleases as long as
the word TERRORIST, is tied to it.

  Please get to know the law and what is driving these
conflicts,  the sooner that the public is aware and
the media starts being honest , the sooner we will be
able to have the pathetic murderers inside the beltway
brought to justice.
RICO….ex rfidler,,,,,peace…..........................

Sirs, who would I contact to get in touch with Gen. David Petraeus? I would like to get his autograph.

All I can say is it takes one to know one. What happened on the aid flotilla was terrorism. What happened in Gaza in 2008 was terrorism. What the blockade is doing to Gaza is terrorism but hell will freeze over before GI Joe and his merry band of killers ever let admissions like those pass their lips - or even enter their heads. While Petraeus and his gang blow up civilians in Afghanistan and Israel blows up civilians in Gaza the Pentagon wants to call those who blow up civilians in Pakistan terrorists? How surprising. The military industrial complex has a screw loose and has had for a long time and things like this just make it crystal clear.

Petraeus, the man who couldn’t remember how many Americans had been killed in Iraq when he was testifying before Congress.

Name-calling is calling anyone you don’t like a commie, a fag, a terrorist, a nigger-lover, whatever. When the state uses terror, it is appropriate to call them terrorists. I can’t think of a clearer definition of terrorism than an invasion of a country which posed no threat called “Shock and Awe.” I believe the Germans were the first to bomb civilians in hopes of terrorizing the populace, and we have carried on their tradition in fine style for decades.

WOW! What a blatant piece of Government Propaganda - Published by one of the usual mouth-pieces of our ‘Democratic’ Government.

Semantics matter. That is why it so important for our government to label the opposition as ‘Terrorists’. You should note, that here at home our local-grown ‘terrorists’ are never labeled ‘Traitors’. That would be the more appropriate label if they are indeed plotting to overthrow our government, while using funds from foreign interests to accomplish this.

Of course, the legal definition of ‘Treason’ is far more restrictive for government purposes. They would have to start by proving the intent was to overthrow the government. Another problem here at home is that most of the funds used by our ‘terrorists’ are in fact provided by our own governments, not a foreign power.

It is in the interest of the Empire to label its opponents with the knee-jerk word ‘Terrorist’. If you look at Israel vs Palestine, it is easy to discern the benefit of labeling an entire people and elected Government with the blanket term ‘Terrorist’.  This excuses and justifies any excess on the part of the Israelis, and stymies those who seek a compromise.

The same of course is true for our Empire in the Mid-East and Latin America. We automatically become the good guys when were battle those forces of evil labeled as Terrorists.

Remember Vietnam and the Cuban Revolution. In those days, people who would now be ‘Terrorists’ were ‘Guerrillas’ and ‘Revolutionaries’, which granted them a rather romantic cache’ with the public. Even today, young Rebels [with or without a cause] can wear a Che tee shirt without being arrested. If they went to the local Mosque wearing a Sadam or Bin Ladin silk screened shirt, it would be a different story.

I think we should allow people to be ‘Militants’ without criminalizing their behavior. Look at the arrest at the G-20 in Canada recently. Over 900 arrested for opposing run-away Capitalism. Freedom of Speech and the Right to Assemble, are a dirty joke when we allow the Government to put opportunistic labels on its opponents. even when they are in their own country opposing a tyrannical regime!

This is especially true when the name-change results in assassination and bombs, rather then an uncomfortable weekend in the local lock-up…

FRTothus:

“...name-calling in an attempt to divert our attention from the fact that the US is the terrorist,...”

Uh. Who’s name calling?

Well, the dictionary would identify people who terrorize others as “terrorists”.

General Petraeus seems to be implying that he has been never been responsible for and is not currently terrorizing any innocent Iraqi and Afghan citizens.  The problem is you need to asked the individuals being terrorized and not the perpetrators to clearly define just who is a “terrorist”.

Changing names . . Hmmmmmmm, that sounds like hype to me.  Let’s see now, the Afghans are involved in a civil war.  Yeah, that’s right, a civil war, and it’s been ongoing for decades.  The Brits were run out of Afghanistan, that it was the Russians who also gave up and ran, and now it’s us with Petraeus saying he’s going “to win”.  So now, to further disguise the reasons why we are there, Patraeus has come up with the lame idea of calling the “insurgents” and “militants” “terrorists”, when actually the Taliban see themselves as patriots as we did back in the 1770s.  Remember our revolutionary war against the Brits? Fact is, the Afghans just want us the hell out of their country—and for good reason. We keep killing their citizens with our ground and aerial attacks—all in the name of “nation-building.”  Brilliant, absolutely Brilliant!

The ruling elite and their scribes in the corporate media throw around lying terms like “insurgent” and “terrorist”, name-calling in an attempt to divert our attention from the fact that the US is the terrorist, our troops are getting killed because they are there, and that those in Afghanistan and elsewhere who are opposed to our puppets like Karzai can hardly be said to be in defiance of a legitimate authority.
The US “leadership” continues to behave like paranoid, spoiled brats armed with deadly toys, always willing to sacrifice someone else’s life if it doesn’t get its selfish, narrow, reprehensible way.  The US military is a criminal enterprise, our very own National Socialists, well-practiced in using force or the threat of force on much weaker opponents to achieve political or economic advantage - the very definition of a terrorist organization.

Another good example of the proverbial pot calling the kettle black.