Does Terrorism Exist?

Google defines Terrorism to mean:

the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

This does not say that violence and intimidation of civilians, but species unlawful. This means that lawful violence and intimidation of civilians is not Terrorism. This already seems wrong.  

There is also the problem of how do you find out if violence and intimidation is lawful or unlawful. 

Consider for example the French Resistance use of violence and intimidation against the Nazis. Was this  legal or illegal? By the laws of the Nazi occupation it was obviously illegal. But in the defence of France we would say that it was legal.

But now consider the exact same situation of Afghan violence against the American invasion of Afghanistan. Is this legal or illegal? By the laws of the American occupation it was obviously illegal. But in the defence of Afghanistan we would say that it was legal.

So legal/illegal is not clear so the Google definition is not very good. Equally the idea that you can ever use violence and intimidation against civilians legally seems wrong too. It's a very bad definition.

Terrorism has always just meant the use of Terror to control people. This means that 9/11 was an act of terrorism. But it also means that the "shock and awe" of the US invasion of Iraq was also Terrorism. The US meant nothing but to intimidate the Iraqis with violence.

Things like Hiroshi were also nothing but the use of violence against innocent civilians with the single purpose of forcing political change. They were acts of Terrorism.

Indeed all the world's biggest terrorist attacks have been conducted by Britain and America. Britain and America are the World's number 1 terrorists.

This is clearly demonstrate when you look at relative death tolls. The entire number of British people killed by Terrorism since 9/11 is about 55. Toasters have killed more people in Britain than Terrorists.

Now consider how many people the British army has killed in the pursuit of its political goals since 9/11. I don't need to look it up: it is more than 55. So Britain is the greater Terrorist.

So Terrorism does exist but unfortunately the greatest terrorists are the West. Now since this is all the pursuit of political goals such a fact is not very helpful for the pursuit of Western political aims.

As a result the West does not accept any definition of Terrorism that points the finger at the West's use of violence and intimidation to progress its own interests around the globe.

So the West changes the definition to mean something which supports its political goals. But in so doing as we have seen they destroy the meaning of the word.

So these days there is no such thing as Terrorism, cos to make sense of Terrorism is to realise that the West is the biggest terrorist.