Comments on: Terrorist Rehab

By: Laure

Laure — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:19:18 +0000

I go to UIC in Chicago where Bill Ayers is a professor. Would love to take him, but so does everyone else!

By: blandrea

blandrea — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:06:24 +0000

Doing nothing in the face of extreme oppression and violence is a form of violence in and of itself.
….or something like that.

By: Ursula

Ursula — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:14:51 +0000

LOTN, for info on child soldiers read the book A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, who survived the civil war of Sierra Leone. The movie Lord of War (based on true events) also features child soldiers

By: waiting4arson

waiting4arson — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:35:51 +0000

I’ve heard more than once that Dostoevsky was planning a sequel to the Brother’s Karamazov in which Alyosha has become a terrorist.

Sort of the inverse process, in a way. Too bad he didn’t live to see (more of) the inside of a debtors prison and write another classic, eh?

By: Dar

Dar — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:19:19 +0000

I’m with Missj.
The biggest difference between the folks described and those in gitmo is years of torture.

That’s gotta skew things more than a bit.

It is kind of neat to know though that political “terrorism” can lead one to a very productive career. You don’t get those kind of odds from business school :)

By: LotN

LotN — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:38:10 +0000

I wonder what the average age for these sorts of “terrorists” is. It does seem that taking these more extreme actions is something done in the late 20s or early 30s.

On a related note, I’ve lately been wondering what becomes of individuals who are armed as children (as under the Khmer Rouge or in Uganda). Perhaps many of them never make it out of childhood…

By: Raskin666

Raskin666 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:56:34 +0000

Interesting view. I want to look into this more. Very cool

By: MissJanet

MissJanet — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:38:12 +0000

I’m no expert, maybe there are some terrorists incarcernated in Guantanamo Bay, but from my take on things, the former US government kidnapped some suspects and tortured them for 8 years without following the law or humanity.

Therefor some poor people, whose human rights have been taken away from them are now returning to the shattered rests of their former lives. The injustice of what happened to them must drive them crazy. When someone decides to be a terrorist, that person must have thought about possible consequences. The question “Was it worth it?” and working on personal growth is possible in jail.

Being basically abducted from the street by a government and being treated like an animal for years is a whole different world.

If that would have happened to me, I would take flight lessons.

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:50:16 +0000

Interesting read:
https://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf