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Terrorists And Freedom Fighters
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Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

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C O N T E N T S
I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians
III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA - The
Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group
Behaviour and Terrorism VII. Appendix: The Crescent and the Cross
VIII. The Author IX. About "After the Rain"

Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

"'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in
terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of
diminishing returns applies to morality." Thomas Sowell There's a
story about Robespierre that has the preeminent rabble- rouser of the
French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a mob
assembling outside. "I must see which way the crowd is headed," he is
reputed to have said: "For I am their leader."
http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimism/ People
who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to be just causes
are alternately known as "terrorists" or "freedom fighters". They all
share a few common characteristics: 1. A hard core of idealists adopt a
cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their
claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on
a language shared by the members of the group and, most important, on
hate and contempt directed at an "enemy". The latter is, almost
invariably, the physical or cultural occupier of space the idealists claim
as their own.

2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever
escalating means justify an ever shrinking cause. The initial burst of
grandiosity inherent in every such undertaking gives way to cynical and
bitter pragmatism as both enemy and people tire of the conflict. 3. An
inevitable result of the realpolitik of terrorism is the collaboration with
the less savoury elements of society. Relegated to the fringes by the
inexorable march of common sense, the freedom fighters naturally
gravitate towards