If words don't mean anything, then there's no point in using them in a conversation. Yes, we have had acts of terrorism in the United States. I am certainly not unaware of that. But you opted to tell me that I was wrong when I said that we have not yet had suicide bombings in the United States. If someone is shot to death or stabbed to death, they are still dead, but a stabbing is not a shooting. And it's not a suicide bombing when someone flies a plane into a building or is shot by the police. Both were acts of terrorism, yes, but they weren't suicide bombings.
Yes I did opt to tell you that you were wrong and I'm sorry for that part Ken. You have every right to your opinion just as I do to mine. One thing you have taught me is that we can have our own opinions without telling the other person they are wrong in having theirs. Because I was upset about my husband's idiot Doctor yesterday I was not careful in how I expressed my opinion that differs from yours on this post. Again I apologize for this.
Have to agree here. The media, in all of its majestic journalistic idiocracy, continually distort the facts by adding or subtracting a singular word. One word has the ability to change the entire context of the who, what, when and where that all good journalism should depend on. More importantly, entire religions have spurs and cults stemming from the original by doing exactly the same thing.
If I am wrong, I'm wrong. Have at it. We have probably had more acts of terrorism in the United States than we know about because we just came off of eight years of Obama, who did not consider anything to be an act of terrorism unless it was committed by a white Christian. I'm exaggerating only slightly, as he would do everything possible to classify murders committed by a Muslim as something other than terrorism, and we still have a media that does that. They just arrested a man who had only recently come to Lewiston, Maine from Somalia, and is not a U.S. citizen, for threatening to kill police, and the newspaper described him as a "Lewiston man." No mention of his skin color, his religion, or his immigration status. When a politician is arrested for corruption, you can know that s/he is a Democrat when the news story doesn't mention the party affiliation, but you can be darned sure that if a Republican is ticketed for jaywalking, the party affiliation will be in the headline. I'm not joking, either. A Maine state senator had to pay for a parking violation and it was in the newspaper, along with his party affiliation, and a diatribe about elected officials thinking they were above the law; in this case, the amount of time that he was allowed to park in a space. Our politicians and our media play with words all the time. If a white male gets into a fist fight with a black man, it's described as a hate crime, but if a Muslim shoots fifteen people to death because they're Christians, it's workplace violence, and when black teenagers and young men make a practice of punching elderly white people on the sidewalks simply because they are white, the newspaper acts like it's a fad, or a teenage prank. Kids will be kids, you know. Words are important, which is why our politicians and the media continually misuse them.
I definitely agree that words are important, yet I also understand that the definitions of words are often different for many of us too and even in this we are entitled to our own opinions which does not make us right or wrong but only individuals with our own opinions. I learned this the hard way when I thought my definition of what a Christian is...was the only definition for a Christian and found out that there are many ways people in this world define Christian and we all think our definition of the word is the right one. I hate the evil that happened in Manchester and I'm just as frustrated as everyone else that it seems we are helpless in stopping this kind of evil. But this same kind of evil is happening all over now and to me has happened here in America way to many times already too. No matter what words you define this evil with...in the end it is still evil and this evil is killing way to many innocent people.
They don't always use bombs and they don't always die in the terror attack but anyone who kills innocent people and isn't worried about dying when committing the act is a suicide "bomber" or terrorists. The terrorists on the plane on 911 had no intention of living through it. Also, don't forget San Bernadino. The terrorists died because they were shot by police. I'm sure they knew they be shot, so that too was suicide...by cop.
We are watching the situation right now. Apparently a van ploughed into people on the London Bridge, a stabbing somewhere else and "shots fired" also reported somewhere.