Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

[F. Marc de Piolenc]

Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> 
> > If you cannot tell the difference between terrorists and
> > freedom fighters, you got shit for brains.
> >
> > The revolutionaries killed british soldiers in America.  They
> > did not go to england and kill english children.
> 
> Why is where they were killed important? If you kill people on your land
> it's ok, kill them on their land it's not?
> 
> Then the Allies were 'terrorist' when they entered German territory in
> WWII? I hardly think so.

Let's try to spell this out so even you can understand it, Jim. The
distinction is between killing combatants and killing noncombatants. Do
you get that? Location is incidental. Motive is irrelevant to the
definition. 

American revolutionaries killed British soldiers and their unfortunate
Hessian co-belligerents, not office workers in London (or Boston for
that matter). That's what makes them something other than terrorists.

Marc de Piolenc