Will the Boston Bombing Help the XL Pipeline?

[August1991]

Gawd, what a thread drift...

I think history shows that there have always been such acts of "terror;" but now we define them as such.

If you were a member of a European royal family in, say, 1870 then you might have a different definition of terror.

Innocent people have always been targets of one group/ideology or another throughout time.

I fundamentally disagree.

In the past (before 1900), common people were ignored because they were irrelevant.

Perhaps less leaders have been killed recently than in the past, but attempts have still been made - and I would say that generally speaking, they also have better security these days, making citizens much easier targets.

Maybe. But then, what does that say? Edited April 22, 2013 by August1991