• Ramin Honary
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    155 months ago

    If you get the government to simply declare everyone else “terrorists” then there is no need for rule of law anymore, you can do whatever you want! Because they are by definition worse than anything we do to them. How convenient for those states with plans for committing genocide, it doesn’t count as genocide if you are mass-murdering terrorists.

    This strategy of the government calling every troublesome minority ethnic group anywhere “terrorists” got kicked into high gear when the US government started using 9/11 as an excuse to commit war crimes and remove restrictions from police forces (like the right of habeas corpus), and it has been a constant slippery slope since then. Nowadays the Biden administration officially considers the “Anti Fascist” movement in the US “terrorism,” although no one in government refers to fascist mass shooters as “terrorists.” Gee, I wonder why they would do that?

    • @OccamsTeapot
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      75 months ago

      This strategy of the government calling every troublesome minority ethnic group anywhere “terrorists” got kicked into high gear when the US government started using 9/11 as an excuse to commit war crimes and remove restrictions from police forces (like the right of habeas corpus), and it has been a constant slippery slope since then.

      Yeah we apparently did not learn a single fucking thing from 9/11 and the shit show that followed.

    • @masquenox
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      55 months ago

      This strategy of the government calling every troublesome minority ethnic group anywhere “terrorists”

      It’s just colonialist warfare with a “terrorism” narrative laid on top to make it sound more politically correct.

      • @Dasus
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        45 months ago

        Yeah 100 years ago it would’ve been “savages” or something else.

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