How to identify a terrorist. Domestic Edition.

Since terrorists can be anyone, and look like anyone, you need to know how to be able to identify a terrorist by how they act and talk, and by what they do.

Of course, I first have to explain what a terrorist actually is. This is hard as there is no single excepted definition of 'terrorism' but I will give it a try.

Terrorism is the systematic use of coercion, directly or indirectly towards your target, to achieve your personal or political goals.

Terrorists use an extremely wide variety of tactics to accomplish their goals. In can be a very large scale act or campaign, or can be acted out be a lone terrorist for his or her own reasons.

One of the most important things to know, is that terrorists rely very highly on modern technology. The internet has enabled groups of people with like minded ideas to find each other. It has also given terrorists who want to create a larger network a place to recruit.

Terrorists will speak out about what they are against at first. Then they will make threats saying what they are willing to do to accomplish their goals. Then they either begin to do what they threatened they would, or continue to recruit people towards their cause.

Usually they continue to recruit, hoping others to act on similar threats for the same reasons, or until they have enough followers to get them to act out the original threats. Also sometimes no threats are made public, and it is done as secretively as possible.

These recruiting tactics are usually done either on the internet, or in places terrorists feel they will find like minded people.

It is to be noted that terrorists always think they are on the correct side of the issue. Any attempt at conversation or negotiations with terrorists are usually found to not be effective at all.





I am hoping for some more points to add to this, so any help and opinion is appreciated.

It is time to get out of Afghanistan NOW!

Here are a few of my reasons....

#1. The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai.
AP article all about this.

#2. The CIA (our CENTRAL intelligence agency) is worn out and thinned. They have been doing this "terrorism" thing for 9 years, and are exhausted, experienced members are leaving in drones, and new comers do not get the time and training required to do the job correctly. One example of the CIA being incapable of doing their job was the 'underwear bomber'. While they had the information to prevent him from ever getting close to US airspace, their forces are stretched to thin, and with 1000's of similar reports coming in daily, it takes manpower and time to sort out the real and the fake reports. Until the CIA can revamp, they are not capable of doing what is asked of them.
Newsweek article about some of the CIA shortfalls.


#3. The Pentagon doesn't want Congress to debate Afghanistan. The Pentagon wants Congress to fork over $33 billion more to pay for the current military escalation, no questions asked, no restrictions imposed for a withdrawal timetable or an exit strategy.
Details on the $33 billion war-funding proposal

#4. Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) "As long as we continue to pursue military solutions to this conflict, paying little to no heed to economic, political and social solutions, security will remain elusive."
Full article by Rep. Mike Honda


It is time for America to understand that this war, and the Iraq war accomplish nothing except costing American Soldiers lives, and lining the pockets of war profiteers, while the citizens of our great nation are left with the check.

Session 1: Economics: Capitalism and Socialism (written on 2.17.010)

The Connecticut Wits: A series of semi-serious comments from Connecticut’s brightest wits.
The Connecticut Wits existed in the late 1700's, consisting of various revolutionaries, and lead by Joel Barlow. They were a group of American writers from Yale, who lambasted their political opponents with genius wittiness and satirical verse. This is a modern take from a similar point of view.

Economics: Capitalism and Socialism 2.17.010

NBA players should be paid much more money to play basketball, because they are the best of the best in their specialty. As a matter of fact, the ‘salary cap’ is the most liberal socialist form of socialism in America today. The best of the best in business, finance, and any other career get paid unlimited amounts of money, and it is completely unfair and un-American to restrict athletes.

Why does Kobe Bryant get paid a mere $23,034,375 for one season of basketball? Because of socialism. Why did Lawrence Ellison, CEO of Oracle, earn $84,501,759 in 2009 for 1 year of, being an executive? Because of capitalism. Thank goodness for capitalism.

Capitalism is what makes America work. Without capitalism, our economy would crumble to the feet of the poor. Under capitalist rule, our economy have seen get things like the technology boom of the 1990’s, and the amazing rise in pay to American workers during the 1920’s. Although both cases of explosive economic glory and growth were followed by full economic disaster, things rise and they fall. The trick is to be alive at the right time, which brings us to socialist healthcare, the fall of America.

If we were to insure all Americans, a few things would happen. First, people would start living longer, but not be able to, or would not be willing to work later into life. Secondly, after a few years, hospitals would see less traffic, especially in the ER. This would be devastating to ER workers, nurses, and doctors, as they would be forced to work less hours, and not be on overload all the time. Most importantly, the overall improvement in American health, mortality, and a decrease in diseases would be crippling to the insurance and pharmaceutical executives.

You may be wondering to yourself, is there no way to use some aspects of socialism, and some aspects of capitalism, to create the best possible ideals for each best suited situation or policy? The short answer is absolutely not. Combining the two ideologies goes against the most basic principle of Capitalism: Socialism is bad. If the two were to be combined in any way, it would immediately become socialism, and no longer be any form of capitalism.

So in conclusion, we have learned that not only is socialism bad, but to veer away from complete and total capitalism, would to be total and complete socialism. It is also to be fully noted that most Americans have little to no interest in the NBA, and that the foresaid comparative theory can be applied to the other topics and words I have presented.