Why are you people trying to start a war that no one will win?

[Savannahmann]

151. The principle in diplomacy is negotiation.

The old saying is Jaw Jaw is better than War War. I think that the BLM did the right thing in de-escalating the situation. Now, patience will let the loonies go home, where they can be picked up as they head to the grocery store. At most they'll have a pistol stuck in their belt, and it will be a reverse of the situation at the Bundy Ranch. The loon will be surrounded and out numbered with little choice but to surrender. Then as I mentioned above in one of the follow ups, you try them as CRIMINALS.

Criminals. We didn't try the Nazi's as Terrorists, we tried them for crimes against humanity. We took the honor out of the war service and through the rest of history showed them as criminals. What was the thing that we did that was so awful to the Omar Abdel-Rahman? You remember him I'm sure, the Blind Shiekh. We tried him as a criminal. All his nonsense was lain aside, and we focused upon his actions that were criminal. He was convicted not of terrorism, but of seditious conspiracy. The criminal act was treated like a crime and he was treated like a common criminal.

A Terrorist sees themselves as a warrior fighting for whatever is the motivation. A Islamic Radical Terrorist thinks they are serving Allah by doing the atrocities. A KKK nut like Frazier Glenn Cross who shot up the Jewish Center is being tried for his criminal actions. No glory resides at the defendants table. But by labeling them as Terrorists, we allow those who think somewhat like they do to paint the picture for their own and the consumption of like minded that this individual was a hero fighting for the cause. The stigma of Terrorist hasn't stopped the recruitment of more for Al Queda. The label of Hate Groups hasn't diminished those groups that feed on hate. If anything it helps them.

But the average people will get an image in their minds when the term criminal is thrown out there. A criminal is a thief, a rapist, a murderer, or even a drug dealer. Criminals are bad people, and we should put them away is the universal understanding that is almost instinctive within the species. America labeled Mandela a Terrorist. At the same time, the 1980's, America was helping to fund the IRA which was according to the British Government, a Terrorist organization. The Irish American community saw them not as Terrorists, but freedom fighters.

But a vast majority of the people do not want to be seen as helping a criminal. That is wrong in the minds of the vast majority. The term Terrorist is worn by many with pride. Yaser Arafat is one who wore it for many decades. Take the romance out of it, take the honor of the fight out. Take the glory out of it. Make them criminals, and treat them like criminals.