Erm. My name is Maldoror, and this is my first time posting in a live journal *blush*. I'm only doing so because Sol ordered me to. I'm actually quite a shy person, and I prefer to sit in my corner and write my pretty fics, in which I like to explore the romantic aspects of GW, and the deeply misunderstood, angsty teens that are its heroes, though I always have a happy end, so that everybody gets the warm fuzzies.
And I think Quatre is as cute as a button.
The kind you find on self-detonation switches, of course.
Right. This was a fascinating thread to read, and often quite hilarious *snarf, paper bag, chuckle*. I hope I'm up to contributing something half-way interesting, if not intelligent (don't ask me for too much...)
The terrorist/freedom fighter thing is the kind of stuff that kept us up all night when we were young and stup- motivated, and wanted to remake the world. Now, I've lived in quite a few countries, have several nationalities, none of which I can look at without bursting into fits of laughter, and, strangely enough, I was in three different cities at the time of terrorist attacks on them (four, if you count the fact I was in NY a few weeks before Sept 11).
Erm, the above is uniquely the result of one of those strange coincidences and if you know anybody from any country's national security please mention that fact to them.
So, my view on it is:
- If you're the nation being oppressed by another country, whose economy is being ruined for someone else's profit, whose freedoms to protest and print are being denied blah blah blah, then it's Freedom Fighters, because when you don't have an army or weapons you take any means at your disposal.
- If you're part of the nation being bombed by aforementioned freedom fighters, and you realize that the other country would be in just as big an economic mess if they had their own govt to do the job (after all, yours is screwing you over, politicians are all the same) and bombs are blowing up in your neighborhood, then they're terrorists.
- If you're part of neither nation but just happened to be wandering by, then everybody concerned is an idiot and they should all be locked up in a small football field until they see sense or kill each other, and let you get on with your job (this is me).
Oh by the way, these observations were not made from current news, but from my own birds-eye view on the England/Ireland question (6 years living in the UK, bay-bee!), which has been going on for well-nigh 60 years, or more, depending on who you ask, and that goes to show that people never learn.
So that's my 2 cents on that part of the debate, but since I live in Canada now, don't think that amounts to much.
I have no idea what I'm doing, but here goes...
Date: 7 Aug 2004 06:46 pm (UTC)Erm. My name is Maldoror, and this is my first time posting in a live journal *blush*. I'm only doing so because Sol ordered me to. I'm actually quite a shy person, and I prefer to sit in my corner and write my pretty fics, in which I like to explore the romantic aspects of GW, and the deeply misunderstood, angsty teens that are its heroes, though I always have a happy end, so that everybody gets the warm fuzzies.
And I think Quatre is as cute as a button.
The kind you find on self-detonation switches, of course.
Right. This was a fascinating thread to read, and often quite hilarious *snarf, paper bag, chuckle*. I hope I'm up to contributing something half-way interesting, if not intelligent (don't ask me for too much...)
The terrorist/freedom fighter thing is the kind of stuff that kept us up all night when we were young and stup- motivated, and wanted to remake the world. Now, I've lived in quite a few countries, have several nationalities, none of which I can look at without bursting into fits of laughter, and, strangely enough, I was in three different cities at the time of terrorist attacks on them (four, if you count the fact I was in NY a few weeks before Sept 11).
Erm, the above is uniquely the result of one of those strange coincidences and if you know anybody from any country's national security please mention that fact to them.
So, my view on it is:
- If you're the nation being oppressed by another country, whose economy is being ruined for someone else's profit, whose freedoms to protest and print are being denied blah blah blah, then it's Freedom Fighters, because when you don't have an army or weapons you take any means at your disposal.
- If you're part of the nation being bombed by aforementioned freedom fighters, and you realize that the other country would be in just as big an economic mess if they had their own govt to do the job (after all, yours is screwing you over, politicians are all the same) and bombs are blowing up in your neighborhood, then they're terrorists.
- If you're part of neither nation but just happened to be wandering by, then everybody concerned is an idiot and they should all be locked up in a small football field until they see sense or kill each other, and let you get on with your job (this is me).
Oh by the way, these observations were not made from current news, but from my own birds-eye view on the England/Ireland question (6 years living in the UK, bay-bee!), which has been going on for well-nigh 60 years, or more, depending on who you ask, and that goes to show that people never learn.
So that's my 2 cents on that part of the debate, but since I live in Canada now, don't think that amounts to much.