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If I am Assassinated: Mayawati
Mayawati’s has asserted that
she is the next target of an assassin– An Assassination Waiting to be perpetrated
by her political counterparts in the garb of a Terrorist Attack. Well indeed
if and when the threat is not unfounded at all especially in the light
of the recent spurt of terrorist activity in Uttar Pradesh which has now
become a soft target in the hit lists of Trans National Terrorist organizations
with a strong local expertise. Imminent or not, there are sufficient grounds
for Mayawati to understand terror more than ever before. Because political
vendetta gone out of hand is a subset of how this super structure of terrorism
operates. An assassination is no less a terror attack in itself. So be
it a Jehadi with a Belief or an Attacker with a political agenda, it’s
the same.
New study based on the interviews
with real assassins, these agents are now taught that their gunman is probably
suicidal and convinced he has nothing to lose.The study revealed not only
similar motives but similar planning. Not one of the assassins ever sent
a direct threat to their intended target. Most, however, told someone close
to them something about their plans. Many spent months or years planning.
Some tried to learn about previous assassins. A few wrote to their predecessors.
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Relying on case studies
of four terrorist groups, researchers have shown that terrorists (1) change
how they carry out activities or design operations; (2) modify their own
technologies, acquire new ones, or substitute diff erent technologies for
the ones they currently use; (3) avoid the defensive technology;or (4)
destroy or damage the defensive technology.
The civilizing effects of
democracy and our civilization had an impact on our perception of past
history. It seems almost forgotten that use of violence and assassination
to achieve political power, remove an adversary, or change a dynasty was
a general historical phenomenon for centuries in societies organized into
the complex political form of the state. |
Next to assassination as a means
to gain wealth and property, assassination to gain political power seems
to be tragically frequent in the past. “No cause, ” argues French author
Albert Camus, “justifies the death of the innocent, ” and terrorism is
the slaughter of the innocent. No matter how we want to look at it, terrorism
is a moral problem in addition to being a criminal act. As newspaper columnist,
Father Andrew Greely has written: “Either terror is moral for everyone
or it is moral for no one.” To save oneself by killing another is destructive
not only of law and legal systems but of civilized society itself. The
admonition of legal philosopher Edmund Cahn still rings true: “Whoever
kills one kills mankind.” |
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