When Everything Is “Terrorism,” Nothing Is
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What is a domestic terrorist? We throw words around where we misuse words all the time. And it’s something, quite frankly, that I’ve lamented here on the program. Language is important. It’s important to have strict definitions so obviously we can have conversations and we can understand history. For example, I was a great John Stewart skit. This was back when George W. Bush was president and he was making fun of the fact that
the left kept calling George W. Bush a Nazi. And it was great rant and he’s like, you know, Hitler has worked way too hard to be that evil for any Tom, Dick and Harry to be called a Nazi. Yet we throw words around all the time and we misuse them. The word domestic terrorism, domestic terrorist is being thrown around right now a lot in what happened in Minnesota and some of the protests.
that are taking place around the country. I think they’re misusing the word, I know they’re misusing the word. It’s actually, Borders R Tom Holman was interviewed on Meet the Press this past weekend and Kristen Welker asked him, is anyone who protests ICE a domestic terrorist in the eyes of the administration? And he said, I can’t say that. It’s a case by case basis. What they did is illegal. And if you look up the definition of terrorism,
It certainly could fall within that definition. I don’t think so, Tom. I understand, put on the spot in that interview, think that, if you’re gonna ask Tom, no, that’s not terrorism. It is a higher level, maybe an illegal form of civil disobedience. Yeah. I watched a lot of protests in my day, lived in New York City, saw some massive protests.
the run up to the Iraq war. And again, it was very, very orderly. I watched protests, again, massive protests before the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Hey, those massive protests, except they caged everybody in. I was commenting at that, Democratic National Convention in 2008 in Denver with Obama, and it was really weird.
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protesters in cages there. Disrupting and getting in the way of law enforcement is illegal. One cannot argue that point and it needs to be dealt with. No problem with that. Domestic terrorism.
Okay, Oklahoma City bombing Timothy McVeigh, that’s domestic terrorism. There is a big difference. you group everything in and you elevate a crime to something that quite frankly, it’s not, you basically,
You lose the power of that word. It’s the same way that Doc John Stewart was talking about how everyone was calling George W. Bush a Nazi. I actually wrote a column about this joking around. This was something that the left used to do. I remember the article was called A Message from Howard Dean. Again, I’m dating myself with this and how to win arguments as a leftist. And that’s pulling out the big guns at the end. Oh, you sound.
You happen to sound like Hitler. You happen to sound like a Nazi. No.
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Domestic terrorism is a much higher level than, again, getting in the way of ICE agents, which is illegal, which should be dealt with. But again, we need to get control of the language people if we’re ever going to have a civil conversation with one another. Watchdogonwellstreet.com.
