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Terrorism Is as American as Apple Pie
 
Gruesome spectacles of violence. Belief in ethno-religious supremacy. Fundamentalist notions of social order. Preoccupations with purity and vengeance. Recruitment tactics aimed at the disaffected and disenfranchised.
 
 
This describes ISIS's modus operandi as much as that of America's own homegrown brand of terrorism — a phenomenon at least as old as the Civil War and rooted in the nation's original sin.
 
 
Today, despite the mounting threat of racist violence to the
Calls for domestic-terrorism laws may seem reasonable, but one should be wary. Current counterterrorism legislation is routinely and grossly
 
 
What's needed isn't a new suite of oppressive tools. Instead, what's needed is a reckoning with America's legacy of racially justified exploitation. Until such an unlikely moment of introspection, however, domestic terrorism will continue to flourish — as American an institution as baseball or apple pie.
 
 
 
 
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Don't hold back! Stop buying insurance — live riskier! Take down all the traffic lights! Dirty up! Forget about time! These prescriptions and more make up the dissident's docket for the fiery year to come.
 
 
 
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