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Originally Posted by HarryT
So you don't think that organisations such as the IRA, ETA, etc, have political goals? They would certainly disagree with you.
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Of course they do, Harry. Don't be absurd. However, if an organized group kills a bunch of people using poison is the motive still political? Or is it only when they use a bomb?
The weapon does not change the motivation and it doesn't create the motivation. Never has, and never will. The fact that someone decides to use a bomb doesn't make the killing a "political statement" .... it makes it a "bombing."
If you really want to suggest that all bombings are politically motivated, which is basically what pshrynk stated and which I completely disagreed with, then the four little girls who were killed when their church was bombed by the Klu Klux Klan were murdered because of their politics?? Gee, and I thought it was because they had dark skin.
It was a church "bombing" .... not a political statement. It was a bunch of stupid white men filled with racial hatred ... not a political statement. If the boys at Columbine had managed to detonate the bombs they brought, would it suddenly have become a political statement? Gee, who knew.