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...Basayev, a Chechen military leader, directed a television-news crew in Moscow to a radioactive parcel buried in one of the city's public parks. He told journalists in a previously filmed interview, "People these days say we are always bluffing...but remember that we are completely prepared to commit acts of terrorism that will be tangible for Russia.'' Basayev has to be taken seriously: last June he led a Chechen raid on the Russian town of Budyonnovsk that left a score of local policemen dead...
...call for all leaders. Terrorism will continue at the boiling point unless there are drastic changes. Leaders have to listen equally to everyone and not lean to the left or right. If they act in this way, individuals will not find the need to go so far as to commit such heinous crimes to get a point across. WARREN A. KANESHIRO Honolulu
...weeks ago, the New Yorker ran a "Comment" by Stephen Schiff that compared television talk shows to the geek shows of the 1920s. What characterized these precursors of Sally Jessy Raphael was the geek, "who distinguished himself by his willingness to commit the most loathsome and humiliating acts onstage--commonly, biting the head off a live chicken.... What had gone out of kilter in him was not a hormone or a chromosome, as in the case of the bearded lady or the midget, but the capacity for shame...
Words and actions are very different, as any mature human should know. It strikes me as extremely immature then to write that "those who promote violence need to be punished regardless of whether or not they are actually carrying out violent actions themselves." Once a free society begins to commit violence against the speeches of madmen, then that society is no longer free, but in an of itself mad, unable to distinguish between ideas and reality...
Israel must address the symptoms of its problems, the causes that let madmen commit violent acts. It must continue in a free and open discussion, so as to quell the irrational worries and fears of the radical right. Without this two-way discussion, the radicals will assume that dialogue is hopeless, and will resort to increasingly drastic acts...