#terroristm

[dragoni]

Obama tells families of 9/11 victims that ‘justice has been done’  #LawAndOrder

@realDonaldTrump  @GOP  #LostTrumpHistory

[i-hls]

Terrorist Threats Feared over Backdrop of Coronavirus Spread

Terrorist organizations do not stop their activities while the world is confronting the COVID-19 pandemic. Violent extremists could seek to take advantage of the pandemic by carrying out attacks against the U.S, warns a memo sent by the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement officials

https://i-hls.com/archives/100057

[random-bookquotes]

The tribal instinct makes this behavior intelligible. In its darkest manifestations, tribalism desensitizes by dehumanizing. It can distort reality on a massive scale, by motivating people to see the world in a way that favors their group commitments. Through the pressure to conform, group identity induces people to do things they never would have considered on their own. Individual responsibility is merged into and corrupted by group identity, and people become capable of engaging in and celebrating atrocious acts of brutality.

Amy Chua,  Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

[onthatpoint]

"A British resident with a British wife and four British children, Shaker Aamer has never been charged or tried, and yet, as Clive Stafford Smith reports, in an article, a press release and a letter to the British foreign secretary William Hague, all cross-posted below, he remains held, exactly ten years since he was first seized, even though he was notified that he had been cleared for release in 2007, and even though successive British governments have requested his return to the UK."