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Weekly transmissions from Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment
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Terrorism Is as American as Apple Pie
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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