Sun May 31 16:59:45 2020
<8f79fcda> a friend of mine has a business 1 block away from where the terrorists broke in a looted a store
<8f79fcda> if his place gets damaged… i don’t know how he’s going to react
<8f79fcda> <https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1016/S0196-1152(03)11002-2/full/html>
— A CIVIL DEFENSE AGAINST TERROR | Emerald Insight
— Terrorism’s political strategy is to force the State to accept social or political change by inciting fear among civilian sectors of a population, while attempting to gain sympathy from other civilian sectors whose interests terrorists claim to represent. Usually, the civilian recipients of terror see themselves as defenseless without the State’s intervention, and they view counter-terrorist policy as being in the province of the State. Policy analysts tacitly or explicitly share this view. In reality, civilian involvement could improve the effectiveness of counter-terrorist policy. To illustrate this, I discuss three issues around which citizen groups have organized and are making an impact on public opinion and policy in the aftermath of September 11th, 2001: public safety, particularly the Indian Point, New York, nuclear plant; learning from mistakes by government intelligence agencies in order to prevent future attacks; and rejection of war and violence as responses to terror.
<8f79fcda> <https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2015/03/26/terrorist-organizations-are-not-entitled-to-the-protection-of-the-geneva-conventions/#640feea4d96e>
— Terrorist Organizations Are Not Entitled To The Protection Of The Geneva Conventions
— BY JEFFREY S. SCHOENWALD AND HENRY I. MILLER – We can hold to our ideals as they pertain to treatment of innocent civilians (theirs and ours); but when terrorists disdain and wantonly violate international norms of law, perhaps we can return the favor.
