The USA is a terrorist state. The real reason republicans didn’t address all the school shootings that the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres were the gateway to was that they benefited personally. People tend to allow for more conservative governance when they find themselves living in a constant state of fear. You’ll also notice they never refer to these terror events as terror events because they need “terrorism” to be something originates from outside the country and is enacted by someone who doesn’t look like you. But really, terrorism is any politically motivated act in which a person commits violence in the hopes of inflicting fear in their victims.
On April 16, 2007 a lone gunman killed 32 people and himself, and injured 17 more. He had approximately 40k victims. Probably more. I have watched in the last 18 years as the terror I grew up with has become normal to people. When it happened to me, it was stunning, shocking, and unfathomable. Now it happens so often that it doesn’t even usually make the news. The message our spiritual and emotional leaders gave us to carry in that time was that we didn’t deserve this, that no one deserves this. I still believe this to be true. However, living in fear of being shot in a spree killing has become normalized to the point of it being background noise as a result of US politicians refusing to address domestic terrorism on account of it not fitting with the narrative of the War on Terror, an aggressive war of expansion that sought not to address the sources of terror, but instead to expand US imperial influence abroad in the quest for more control over the world’s mineral resources.
The genocide in Gaza, and now Trump bringing that domestic against Latin Americans, should all be understood as a function of failing to address the roots of terrorism and instead using terrorism to justify bloodshed to acquire land and mineral rights
The USA is a terrorist state. The real reason republicans didn’t address all the school shootings that the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres were the gateway to was that they benefited personally. People tend to allow for more conservative governance when they find themselves living in a constant state of fear. You’ll also notice they never refer to these terror events as terror events because they need “terrorism” to be something originates from outside the country and is enacted by someone who doesn’t look like you. But really, terrorism is any politically motivated act in which a person commits violence in the hopes of inflicting fear in their victims.
On April 16, 2007 a lone gunman killed 32 people and himself, and injured 17 more. He had approximately 40k victims. Probably more. I have watched in the last 18 years as the terror I grew up with has become normal to people. When it happened to me, it was stunning, shocking, and unfathomable. Now it happens so often that it doesn’t even usually make the news. The message our spiritual and emotional leaders gave us to carry in that time was that we didn’t deserve this, that no one deserves this. I still believe this to be true. However, living in fear of being shot in a spree killing has become normalized to the point of it being background noise as a result of US politicians refusing to address domestic terrorism on account of it not fitting with the narrative of the War on Terror, an aggressive war of expansion that sought not to address the sources of terror, but instead to expand US imperial influence abroad in the quest for more control over the world’s mineral resources.
The genocide in Gaza, and now Trump bringing that domestic against Latin Americans, should all be understood as a function of failing to address the roots of terrorism and instead using terrorism to justify bloodshed to acquire land and mineral rights