londonblue
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Not wanting to hijack the debate on what happened in Norway, I thought i'd start a new thread about left and right wing terrorists.
From my observations (and these are just my opinions) it seems to me that there is a real difference between the two. It seems to me that right wingers actually go out to kill. For example, Itamar was a right wing act, as was the attack on Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh.
Left wingers tend to go out to make themselves a victim in order to garner sympathy and to turn public opinion against their "enemy". For example, the aid boats to Gaza. (I don't want to get into the rights or wrongs of that, but suffice it to say, there is no real need for these boats since the borders between Gaza and Israel, and Gaza and Egypt allow in food etc, the only thing both the Israelis and Egyptians do is make sure there is nothing that can be used as a weapon.) Other example of this are the riots in London where the Police end up looking the bad guys for trying to keep the peace by use of overly aggressive tactics. However, that is what left wingers want. They want to be the victim.
To me there is a difference in the tactics they use, but I also think both are as bad as eachother. Both lead to deaths, one kills their "enemy" and the other hopes to cause other peoples' deaths to gain sympathy and revulsion of their "enemy".
(I was thinking about this when I was in the gym about an hour ago, and had some really good examples on both sides, but can't for the life of me remember them now!)
From my observations (and these are just my opinions) it seems to me that there is a real difference between the two. It seems to me that right wingers actually go out to kill. For example, Itamar was a right wing act, as was the attack on Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh.
Left wingers tend to go out to make themselves a victim in order to garner sympathy and to turn public opinion against their "enemy". For example, the aid boats to Gaza. (I don't want to get into the rights or wrongs of that, but suffice it to say, there is no real need for these boats since the borders between Gaza and Israel, and Gaza and Egypt allow in food etc, the only thing both the Israelis and Egyptians do is make sure there is nothing that can be used as a weapon.) Other example of this are the riots in London where the Police end up looking the bad guys for trying to keep the peace by use of overly aggressive tactics. However, that is what left wingers want. They want to be the victim.
To me there is a difference in the tactics they use, but I also think both are as bad as eachother. Both lead to deaths, one kills their "enemy" and the other hopes to cause other peoples' deaths to gain sympathy and revulsion of their "enemy".
(I was thinking about this when I was in the gym about an hour ago, and had some really good examples on both sides, but can't for the life of me remember them now!)