Quote from: bezzeb on June 07, 2013, 11:11:56 AM

Quote from: New_Frontier on June 07, 2013, 03:46:29 AM

Ok, now that I've got your attention with an over dramatic sensationalized headline here is the real deal....

Soon the DHS will announce that anybody who owns, transfers, buys, trades, or settles debts with Bitcoins in the U.S. will be considered a person of interest in terrorist activities.
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The list goes on... Cry

I find the context for your post to be a tad banal because one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. This makes it a hopelessly polarizing way of thinking about the struggles that surround us, only serving to box your mind into a restricted set of outcomes thus missing the root cause solutions that would actually bring positive change.

We should not propagate the idea that Terrorists even exist. People do bad things for many reasons, and they are all criminals if proven guilty, plain and simple. We have laws and punishments for this. WTF - what's the big fuss?...

Exactly.
I was watching a documentary on the Medieval period, and the public were constantly being watched over by teams who worked for the bishops. They were looking out for heretics, anyone who publicly disagreed with some aspect of theology. Heretics were arrested and slowly killed. The professor compared the scare about heretics with the fears about modern day terrorists! That is the mindset everyone is in. Any terrorists found should just be charged with whatever criminal laws they have broken and that is the end of it. A 'war on terror', is just plain stupid, just like a Medieval war against heretics.