Terrorism

William Shakespeare once said, “And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse”; in this case that fault is terrorism. Terrorism is the use of any violence, or intimidation that targets, or endangers, another individual’s civil liberties, politics, or government. Terrorism takes violence to an extreme level with no logical reason, or methodology. Terrorism is an excuse for the weak minded, who would rather assert their “authority” or “position” through violence, rather than finding innovative ways of dealing with their problems. Is terrorism ever justifiable? I would have to say no to that argument, those of us who use terror as a means of getting what we want are only cowards, and have no common sense of how to settle our issues through words, or logic. When I think of terrorism I think of a playground scene where the older boy is beating up a smaller boy for his lunch money. This may seem simple in nature but terrorism can start from instances such as this, from tedious childhood bullying into a radical stage of violence, and intimidation of others. If you allow terrorism to grow at such a young age you’re just increasing the chances that the child ends up being a civil terrorist. Examples of civil terrorists are the eight clergymen in Dr. King’s Letter from A Birmingham Jail. In this literary piece Dr. King supports the idea that terrorism is never justifiable and that no matter what social order says, it still is not right to use violence as a response to change, and the advancement of social liberties. In his essay King says, “ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (Page 1), this alone shows that King believes that terrorism is never justifiable. If terrorism is allowed to roam free, and flourish, it will endanger freedom everywhere and henceforth break down the moral make up of democracy. For reasons such as these terrorism cannot be made justifiable in the slightest situation. If you nurture terrorism in