... then THE TERRORISTS will win. Since my last quiz was quite successful, here's another (shorter and easier) one:
Which of the below people is one of THE TERRORISTS?
| Dave Pyke | Joe Privetera | Luis Posada Carriles |
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| Dressed as `Robin' from `Batman', Dave Pyke gives an interview outside Buckingham Palace shortly before his arrest for involvement in a protest by pressure group Fathers 4 Justice. | Joe Privetera, protesting against torture by US forces in Iraq, outside an army recruiting center in Boston in the United States. | An old photo of Carriles, who was imprisoned in Venezuela for murdering 73 people in a 1976 airliner bombing; he's also implicated in six hotel bombings in 1997, and in an attempt to murder a famous head of state. He was recently pardoned and released from prison. |
As with the estimation quiz, it's pretty easy to cheat on this one. So don't.
Comments
Posted by Pete Stevens, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:20 (link):
Dave Pyke
By dressing as Robin from Batman without permission from the MPAA he's clearly depriving them of copyright revenue. Therefore he must be part of an illegal copied DVD distribution group which uses it's funds to support terrorists and traffic illegal asylum seekers.
Posted by Chris Lightfoot, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:37 (link):
Obviously what Pete intended to type here was,
Posted by Nick, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:01 (link):
Well, Dave Pyke is clearly just 'over-exuberant' and it's clear that Carriles is not a terrorist, but actually a freedom fighter - possibly a guerilla on a bad day, but only rarely - while Privetera is clearly an enemy of all that is Decent and Good, so must be one of the terrorists.
There's a similar question from Gary Farber, btw, if you haven't seen it.
Posted by yemon, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:44 (link):
Hmm, this wouldn't be a sneaky test on your readers' prejudices, would it? It could be that the murdering terrorist is actually still a terrorist even if he has been pardoned.
Assuming that there isn't a double bluff going on here, I'll also have to plump for the guy protesting against abuse of prisoners; I've not read what's in the Patriot Act but it seems likely that a `militant stance in matters of national security' might constitute some kind of *evidence* of terrorism. (*evidence* in the Stalinist sense, that is.)
The point is presumably one about currently being a terrorist, since this is a transient label.
BTW, I notice that in your examples of HTML tagging you have a quote which, if I recall correctly, was used in Orwell's essay on`` Politics and the English Language". Is this just coincidence?
Posted by Chris Lightfoot, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:52 (link):
Definitely not a coincidence....
Posted by Martin Keegan, Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:48 (link):
If we begin to make equivocating distinctions about who is and is not a terrorist, Then The Terrorists Will Have Won!
Posted by Sinan, Friday, 24 September 2004 15:05 (link):
Well a slight error in the link: Carriles and Bosch did not mastermind the attack to the Cuban airliner, they just worked out the technical details, they were payed for this by the CIA. This was a blatant terrorist act by the US that caused, among others, the deaths of the members of the Cuban junior fencing team which was the -by far- most succesful junior fencing team in the whole American continent. The Cuban Intelligence jointly worked with the KGB to get the finest details of the attack, yet in this damned world of double standards the US were never accused by any western country and got away with this murder of children. In terms of of the level of horror this was no less than the Lockerbie case but no trials, no embargos to the US. The circumstances in which the above-mentioned person was released from a Venezuelan jail are also known but who cares ? We are living under the barbarian domination of the US, that is it.
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