Civil Liberties: February 2009 Archives
When you’ve been terrorized by a group of people, how do you refuse to
tolerate their tactics without losing sight of their humanity? Before
spending a lot of time discussing this on Monday I didn’t realize that
this was a central question I’d been grappling with.For a long while, each interaction with individual participants in the anti-Kyeann and Mom terror campaign was painfully taxing. How could this person hate me bad enough to poison my food? Try to upset me while cutting my hair? Ridicule me based on private information he never should have been able to access? Take part in an entrapment scheme? Place listening or viewing devices in my home? Stalk me?
There have been a variety of players with a variety of motivations but it’s clear that there is a small army of extreme right wing zealots in our city, ready to be activated to terrorize people when given the go-ahead. It’s also clear that in our case this is a culmination of years of ideologically based harassment. What they have taken part in recently is the dictionary definition of terrorism: “the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.”
Continue reading Tolerating Religious Diversity vs. Endorsing Terrorism.
