What is this REALLY about?

I'll tell you.

The Neocon leaders have successfully whipped both their followers and a large portion of the massies into a paranoid frenzy against "terrorists". It's a programmed knee-jerk reaction, so that our so-called representatives can now just slap the Terrorist label on any people they wish the public to oppose.

Having loaded so much emotional baggage into the word, now some liberal groups see an opportunity to co-opt that hysteria to their own ends.

So now the popular tactic is to equate one's own established devil-of-choice with the word "terrorist". Just to try and cash in on some of the xenophobic us-vs-them tribal hysteria so successfully generated by Washington DC.

This is such a joke. Is that all politics is to you, just chasing the latest successful MARKETING STRATEGY?

We all know the strong who batter the weak without just cause are evil. WE ALREADY KNOW THIS.

Has your personal cause fallen by the wayside?
Has it drowned in the buzz of other front-page issues?

Looking for a way to revitalize your old cause, slap some fresh PR paint on it, make it shiny and new and hot and current?

Then jump on the Catch-Phrase Bandwagon!

Obsessed with litter but in our info-tainment culture the word "litterbug" just doesnt set people talking? Jealous that these "terrorists" have stolen your limelight? Co-opt the Terrorist(tm) brand and bring fresh enthusiasm to your cause!

Litterbugs are "resource terrorists". Graffitti vandals are "viewspace terrorists". Violent husbands are "domestic partner terrorists". People who drive fast are "traffic terrorists". People who go to their office job with a cold are "occupational terrorists".

WHATEVER.

I'm sorry if you feel that Al Qaeda has stolen your thunder. I'm sorry that the general public is only concerned with being entertained, and isnt paying your pet cause the interest it deserves.

But resorting to blatant marketing manipulation to create new buzz about your tired old product is demeaning to the victims of the violence you oppose.