Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

@nils_gilman “Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence— our violence—which is now used on the innocent of the Middle East ever more outrageously and promiscuously... /1

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Quoted by@BretWeinstein "...People who lived through fascism understand that when governments talk about terrorism and extremism, you have to be on guard, because these are always the words you hear before your rights are taken away from you." - Tim SnyderQuoted by@nybooks "Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not war on terrorism." - #noamchomsky. And a meditation on the miltiarist matrix's use of the word 'terrorism', by #RobertFisk, in 'The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East'.Quoted by"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not war on terrorism." - #noamchomsky. And a meditation on the miltiarist matrix's use of the word 'terrorism', by #RobertFisk, in 'The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East'.Quoted by1/ A meditation on the use of the word 'terrorist', by Robert Fisk.