Ray From Cleveland
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The funny thing is Ray, you say "No, it's not the same thing" then post a dictionary definition which proves it is the same.
So you fail to show me where they are the same, and yet claim they are. So let's try this again: show me the definitions of attack and punishment that are the same.
As a verb it can mean many things. "to set upon in a forceful.... way", so, if the govt sets upon someone forcefully, it's an attack. Or violently, it's an attack, are you telling me that an execution isn't violent? Or using riot police to attack protesters isn't an attack?
It isn't the same. A prisoner is walked down "calmly" to the execution site, and is then executed. There is nothing violent about it. They didn't march into his cell, start beating him on the head with a club, and dragged him to the execution chamber.
I'm not sure why you're asking me what the similarities are between punishment and attack. Where did this pop into your head that I had said they're the same thing?
What we're talking about is that if the thing is legal for the govt and illegal for everyone else, it doesn't change the fact that it's the SAME THING. Therefore if it's an attack for an ordinary person, therefore it's an attack for the govt too.
The US didn't go to Iraq for terror? Well, I'm not sure I agree with you there. There are plenty of issues which I could point to that amount to terror. But this isn't the topic here. The topic is that war is terror. That getting away from terrorism with war is almost impossible. Who isn't terrified of war?
Being terrified of war and terrorism are not the same thing. If that were so, every war would be labeled terrorism.
Terrorism is inflicting terror into a group of people. It's the only goal of terrorism. If I get an audit from the IRS, I'm terrified of the notice, but that does not mean the IRS is terrorizing me.
So, I see you agree with me on the whole punishment thing then? Seeing as all your examples are PROOF that people who are not the govt can hand out punishment.
Physical punishment. Why can't you separate the two? If I leave the bar and some patron I was arguing with is smashing the windows of my car, I do not have the legal right to place him in handcuffs and lock him in a room where he cannot escape. That is physical punishment and not sanctioned by our laws or people. Only a police officer can do that.
Murdering somebody is a physical punishment. Only authorities have the legal right to physically punish somebody. So I don't agree with you on anything you said.
Ray, the whole point of me talking about super PACs is that they are impossible to prove corruption. And then you tell me that I don't have proof of this corruption. Are you fucking serious? Do you not get ANYTHING I am telling you?
What you are telling me is that there is corruption in PAC's, but cannot prove what you said. So yes, I am serious. If I tell you Obama was on the Iran payroll, but can't prove he received any money from Iran, does that mean he was getting money from Iran even though I can't prove it; only because I say he did?
Because just about everything you have replied to in your post is a tangent of what is being spoken about, it's not the topic, it's got nothing to do with the topic, except the part of the dictionary definition, and that is just laughable that you can provide evidence that destroys your own argument.
Really? So show me this evidence you speak of that destroys my argument.