14 dead in Waco. How many folks will go to jail?

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6. It just goes to show

how profit and terror are opposite poles of the same thing, essentially.

While that may sound ludicrous, you just have to think it through in a larger sense.

The rule of thumb in the US is: If it is profitable but deadly or harmful it is not terrorism. If it is not profitable and deadly or harmful it may be terrorism.

The war on terror is a war on a word, i.e., a useful abstraction that can be defined as needed and applied when necessary. No mention is made of the impact of the relationship of foreign economic/military policies that might insight retribution and anger.

Yet, terrorism is directly related to profit because, and you just have to check it out by researching it, it assures that huge amounts of money are spent on defense of said, from the military to its contractors and suppliers.

They could do a commercial with smiles winks and thumbs-up about how terror has replace the cold war as a money maker for defense/offense and the MIC. Wink! Thank you terror for billions in our pockets and plenty of jobs in our industries! Keep it going.

Seeking profit continues the cycle. Rinse and repeat.

Profit = good under any circumstance from pollution to work conditions to exploitation, etc., etc.

Terror = bad, except in the sense that it is a result of profit and also a means to create it.