a reply to:
thebozeian
Yeah, I've been following this one closely. I hope ATS doesn't follow its one-thread policy on this, because this one is huge, though its been
posted on before. It should be given lots of threads.
I heard a quote from intelligence folks once, that said (paraphrasing)
"terrorism is an attempt at discourse in a language of symbolic violence".
That's as close to the core as it gets. I can promise one thing: there was not one person - not one - on that flight who the people who shot it down
had a grievance with. That makes it a kind of violence different from somebody shooting their perceived enemy, the purpose of the violence is to send
a message.
(And I do not Agree with Senator McCain that flight M17 was shot down on 7/17 because they got the wrong plane, and thought it was a military plane,
just as I do not believe the connection between 9/11 2001 and the coup against Allende on the same date in 1973 was coincidence.)
"terrorism is an attempt at discourse in a language of symbolic violence".
An interesting thing about modern terrorism is to note its symbiosis with both the media, and the Internet. (I had a joking thought that Anderson
Cooper shot it down himself, noting CNN's ratings spike during the flight 370 fiasco) Terrorism exists not to exterminate a physical enemy, but to
exterminate, in the eyes of media viewers, a
symbolic, ideological enemy.
The question is, what is the symbol, what is the idea being communicated in this attack highly tied to sevens (for some reason). I don't know who's
behind it. High ranking US officials in Intelligence ALONE know if "western aligned" forces were behind this, high ranking officials in Russian
intelligence ALONE know if Russian aligned separatists where behind it. My take - as a peace lover - on this attack, so ripe for propaganda
exploitation, is to think of it like this:
The devil ran into the room. He did something wicked and evil, and did a little dance, waving two nation's flags around.
The question is, having seen this yourself, are you going to ask "which one of those nations who's flags the devil was waving made the devil to that
evil act?" Or are you going to blame the devil (wicked people) for wicked acts and continue to move forward to peace and balance for the people of
Ukraine and the people of the world?
Peace~! Me