{"id":5220,"date":"2009-01-25T14:32:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T22:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2009-01-25T19:15:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T03:15:51","slug":"is-obama-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/25\/is-obama-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama a Terrorist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If so, it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0not because he has associated with Bill Ayers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0He did, however,\u00c2\u00a0order a terrorist\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article5575883.ece\">attack on Pakistan<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that resulted in the deaths of civilians. That is a hard statement because we have been conditioned to believe that governments don&#8217;t commit acts of terrorism, terrorists do.\u00c2\u00a0Well,\u00c2\u00a0we probably all learned in school that during the French Revolution, the government&#8217;s Committee of Public Safety carried out what was called the Reign of Terror. I know I did, but never thought about it until I was recently reading\u00c2\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-Terror-Should-Christians-Respond\/dp\/0830834877\/antiwarbookstore\/\">The War on Terror: How Should Christians Respond?<\/a><\/em>, by Nick Megoran (IVP, 2008). Says Megoran: &#8220;Richard Falk, a professor of law at Princeton University, observes that the word <em>terrorism<\/em> first emerged as applied to the activities of the French revolutionary government, which used violence against civilian society to terrorize the population into acquiescing to the new government.&#8221; How could I have forgotten this? But even worse, how can so many\u00c2\u00a0Americans believe that a terrorist is anyone who detonates a bomb but doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wear a U.S.\u00c2\u00a0Air Force uniform?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If so, it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0not because he has associated with Bill Ayers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0He did, however,\u00c2\u00a0order a terrorist\u00c2\u00a0attack on Pakistan\u00c2\u00a0that resulted in the deaths of civilians. That is a hard statement because we have been conditioned to believe that governments don&#8217;t commit acts of terrorism, terrorists do.\u00c2\u00a0Well,\u00c2\u00a0we probably all learned in school that during the French Revolution, the government&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}