Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
IS THE U.S.A.THE FIRST TERRORIST STATE?
IS U.S.A. THE FIRST TERRORIST STATE ?
Is the United States of America the first "terrorist state?" I had inquired earlier online today. My query was in part prompted by watching segments of Attorney General Jefferson Davis Sessions' equivocal testimony yesterday in the House of Representatives, to questioning relative to the FBI's "black identity extremists" priorities; in part by Dr. Joy DeGruy's discrediting of IQ tests, in her POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME (2005); and by my own preexisting perceptions.
The question is fair.
The term "terrorist state" was coined by us in the United States of America to castigate, designate, isolate others who were averse to us, like such countries as Iran, Iraq, Cuba, North Korea and North Vietnam, Syria, ISIS, Al-qada, etc .
How far back does such an inquiry extend ? Back to Rome? Sparta?
Is a "terrorist state" defined or confined by political-geography, ideology, brutality, inequality?
If so, the modern era, post-1776, seems to offer the most powerful example, the United States of America, especially! One need look no farther than to the oppression of imported blacks, the decimation of the native Indians, and the racially-stereotypical branding of others: Asians, Mexicans, Central/South Americans, Caribbeans, Jews, Muslims, African immigrants.
Arguably the American example may have motivated the Union of South Africa's apartheid; Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany's; Mussolini's fascist Italy; if not King Leopold's execrations in the Belgium Congo.
America's example was foremost!