Stephen Kinsella: Terrorism comes with more than one cost
Political violence doesn’t just kill people in their thousands – it also strangles economic life
Let’s call terrorism what it really is: political violence. Terrorism as a concept only became widespread in the 1960s – after the advent of mass media. Before then, acts of politically inspired violence were routinely described as bombings, assassinations, hijackings and so forth. It is impossible to find a recognised definition of what terrorism is. In the US, international terrorism is “any act intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence ...
