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Where the ordinary liberal scoffs at the idea that apocalyptic terror represents a real threat to his society, the awakened humanist, like Syme the poet-policeman or Chesterton himself, believes that everyone else has missed the reality, by refusing to accept how plausible and alluring the argument for destruction is.
"I go fishing up there," he said, but added: "Islamic terror represents a threat.
The way we interpret terror represents an unspoken decision to elevate it from banality to sublime evil.
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In "Lincoln's Code" he argues against two competing and, in his view, equally false notions: on the left, the idea that George W. Bush's war on terror represented a radical break with the American past; and on the right, the idea that Americans started caring about the laws of war only when pointy-headed Europeans forced them to.
The archetype has always been powerful because it projects the common terror represented when we dream about being naked in a public place; it reminds us that what we normally experience as the solidity of ordinary life is actually an abyss.
The memorial to the victims of lynching is a necessary addition to that landscape, if only to remind Alabamians, and other Americans, that the terror it represents will no longer be overlooked.
Transfer of the residual right-lateral strike-slip displacement from the tip region of the principal displacement zone to the basin-boundary fault systems of the Terror Rift represents the most effective displacement compensation mechanism at the termination of the Priestley Fault.
Like: Is it an extreme terror movement represented by the ghoul-like "Jihadi John," causing havoc in the Middle East?
Like: is it an extreme terror movement represented by the ghoul-like "Jihadi John", causing havoc in the Middle East?
When Felix Dzerzhinsky founded the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, in December 1917, announcing, "We represent terror - this must be stated openly - a terror that is absolutely essential in the revolutionary period we are passing through," Ransome defended this too, in a way that may ring bells today.
Germany's Interior Minister Otto Schily, who as a lawyer used to represent terror suspects, has proposed loosening restrictions on surveillance, in effect giving investigators the right to pry without any stated suspicion.
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