Thursday, January 13, 2011

If so, it’s not because he has associated with Bill Ayers

If so, it’s not because he has associated with Bill Ayers. He did, however, order a terrorist attack

on Pakistan that resulted in the deaths of civilians. That is a hard statement because we have been

conditioned to believe that governments don’t commit acts of terrorism, terrorists do. Well, we

probably all learned in school that during the French Revolution, the government’s Committee of Public

Safety carried out what was called the Reign of Terror. I know I did, but never thought about it until

I was recently reading The UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots on Terror: How Should Christians Respond?, by Nick

Megoran (IVP, 2008). Says Megoran: “Richard Falk, a professor of law at Princeton University, observes

that the word terrorism first emerged as applied to the activities of the French revolutionary

government, which used violence against civilian society to terrorize the population into acquiescing

to the new government.” How could I have forgotten this? But even worse, how can so many Americans

believe that a terrorist is anyone who detonates a bomb but doesn’t wear a UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots

Air Force uniform?

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