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Date Posted: 12:05:06 02/21/02 Thu
Author: Venu Bhakhri
Subject: Re: Guerillas...terrorists...now REBELS?
In reply to: Cynthia Boaz 's message, "Re: Guerillas...terrorists...now REBELS?" on 15:35:48 02/20/02 Wed

I think groups are labeled as terrorists, guerrillas or rebels because society needs to know what group of people are good or harmful to them. In societies such as the United States, it becomes important to judge people to know more about them so they can find out how harmful they can be. Thus, people tend to label groups based on their assumption of fear. If a group seems to be dangerous (by dangerous i mean threatening to one's life) they are labeled as terrorists. If a group seems to be fighting for a cause they are labeled as rebels, revolutionaries, and guerrillas. For example, the Osama Bin Laden and his group are labeled as terrorists because they harm innocent people for no reasonable cause. Since they are labeled as terrorists people tend to believe that we should fight against them. Because of the society knows what people are "good" and what group of people are "bad." This is just what i believe. What do you guys think?

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