{"id":354763,"date":"2018-04-01T07:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T06:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-terrorist-by-any-other-name\/"},"modified":"2018-04-01T07:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T06:04:59","slug":"a-terrorist-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-terrorist-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Terrorist by Any Other Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers and other publications keep what they call \u201cstylebooks\u201d to let the folks who write for them know what\u2019s acceptable to the publication and what isn\u2019t. Many factors determine the rules that are included in a stylebook, many, but not all of them, economic.<\/p>\n<p>What these stylebooks reveal, however, is much more than just preferences and economics. What is a \u201c<em>terrorist<\/em>\u201d for example \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the record, here\u2019s the [Minnesota] Star Tribune style entry, word for word: \u201cThe Star Tribune permits the use of the word \u2018terrorist\u2019 to describe nongovernmental groups that carry out attacks on civilians. Other words \u2013\u2018gunmen,\u2019 \u2018separatist,\u2019 \u2018rebel\u2019 and \u2018suicide bomber,\u2019 for example \u2013usually are more precise and therefore are generally preferred. In the case of Al-Qaida, the use of \u2018terrorist network\u2019 or similar terms is permitted. Also, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks as \u2018terrorist attacks\u2019 is permitted.\u201d <em>\u2013from Minnesota startribune<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, \u201c<em>In the case of Al-Qaida, the use of \u2018terrorist network\u2019 or similar terms is permitted<\/em>.\u201d But, in the case of governments, apparently, the use of \u201c<em>terrorist<\/em>,\u201d etc. <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> permitted.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that if a \u201c<em>governmental group\/network<\/em>\u201d does exactly what a non-governmental \u201c<em>terrorist group\/network<\/em>\u201d does \u2014 \u201c<em>carrying out attacks on civilians,<\/em>\u201d etc. \u2014 it isn\u2019t called \u201c<em>terrorist.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of any \u201c<em>governmental group\/network<\/em>\u201d currently carrying out attacks on civilians?<\/p>\n<p>Thought so. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2018\/3\/22\/as_yemen_faces_worlds_worst_humanitarian\">Me too.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, we know that governments attack civilians \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 regularly. And the results are predictable and the magnitude horrendous. Just to start with \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>New York, NY \u2013 An early July column in the Wall Street Journal by R.J&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/l-reichard-white\/a-terrorist-by-any-other-name\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspapers and other publications keep what they call \u201cstylebooks\u201d to let the folks who write for them know what\u2019s acceptable to the publication and what isn\u2019t. Many factors determine the rules that are included in a stylebook, many, but not all of them, economic. What these stylebooks reveal, however, is much more than just preferences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}