John Sherffius by John Sherffius

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  1. akibono

    akibono said, 23 days ago

    Potus calls them freedom fighters and insurgents and any other politically correct name. They are still terrorists and this is their credo.

  2. metagalaxy1970

    metagalaxy1970 said, 23 days ago

    This is the best one I’ve ever read about what a terrorist is. And it is extremely accurate. But you tell them that, and they will tell you that you are a liar.

  3. Ken Warren

    Ken Warren said, 23 days ago

    Terrorist are real, they want power, but we need be real in facing them down and destroying them.

    Terrorist use terror in the hope it will create fear and panic, because fear and panic are about their only weapons.

    World wide they a few in number -THEY ARE NOT EVERYWHERE – EVERYWHERE, even the highest estaments place their numbers in the tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands, or millions.

    They are not going to invade America and fight us in the streets, they are going to sneak around the world and do terrible things, really terrible things, but we can’t let it make us angery, because anger makes us stupid.

    If we label everyone who disagrees with us, thinks or prays differetly then us as “Terrorist” then we make the real terrorist stronger.

    To really get rid of terrorist will be a long, slow process, it will require us to work with others – the rest of the World doesn’t want terrorist any more then we do – but to remove cancer you have to use a sharp scalpel, not a sledge hammer.

  4. parkersinthehouse

    parkersinthehouse said, 23 days ago

    excellent editorial sherffius

    pretty powerful poetry

  5. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 23 days ago

    This is the credo of those who plan, or support, war without reason as well. Individuals, and nation-states, can be equally classified.

  6. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, 23 days ago

    That’s what a terrorist is, but the word has been so abuses it looses meaning.

    Do you know what’s the biggest act of cowardice I’ve seen in my life? Start a war by killing yourself and hundreds more, and not be there to face the massacre and pain that follows even among your kin, not being with your family to suffer with them—BECAUSE YOU’RE FREAKIN DEAD!

    That’s I think the kamikaze were, I think. They start a thing, but are to cowards to stay alive to face its consequences. That’s what all martyrs are, if you think about it.

    And the kamikaze were one more thing, they were saudis. Why was it Iraq we invaded?

  7. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 23 days ago

    FADADIS =Terrorist

  8. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, 23 days ago

    If a tree falls in the woods question…Suppose you could sacrifice yourself to take out a terrorist, but no one ever knew of your sacrifice. Would you ? Give up everything. Our soldiers do it every day in Afghanistan and Iraq. One plane never made it to it’s target on 9/11. Men and women just like us. They decided.

  9. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 23 days ago

    CorosiveFrog: boy, have you got it backwards. You must be Godless, huh? Convinced that life on Earth is all there is, was, or ever will be?

    I assure you: these suicide bombers are the FIRST to suffer the horrible consequences of their misdeeds. and their suffering never ends; it continues for eternity.

    Ask Joseph Mengele. He’s been dead since 1979. 30 years now! But I bet if you could ask him he’d tell you it feels like 3000 years, assuming he could even manage to speak incoherently as his spirit reminds him that even 3000 years would be nothing, because he has all of Eternity ahead of him and no matter how much he wants it all to end, it never will…

    Or ask Yasar Arafat. I bet ol’ Yasar is regretting every Israeli schoolkid he ever blew up now, even though at the time he creamed his robes over it…

  10. Ken Warren

    Ken Warren said, 23 days ago

    Remember that we could conquer all of Afghanistan and bring order (which I think would be a good thing for the peope there, but I am not sure that they would agree), bring peace to Iraq, and find Bin Laden, and it wouldn’t stop the terrorist, because those who support them and finance them are in Saudi Arabia, Kewait, the United Arab Republic, Iran, and all of those countries getting rich off the oil we use.

    Until we confront them, or they feel threatened by the terrorist, we can only kill the terrorist where we find them, and work with all of the other nations that want to end terrorism.

  11. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, 23 days ago

    Sherffius is just describing one type of terrorist.
    There are and have been others.

    Oldlegodad: I asked an Iraqi colleague to translate what you’re claiming to say and he shrugged; it is meaningless. Another Arabic speaker on this board also said the same. Give it up?

    Ken said: If we label everyone who disagrees with us, thinks or prays differently then us as “Terrorist” then we make the real terrorist stronger.
    Correct. On this forum I have argued strongly against using dehumanising terms to tar all who share the same religion or nationality. That’s the wrong path to take.

    Ken also suggested: but to remove cancer you have to use a sharp scalpel, not a sledge hammer
    Spoken like a good surgeon but I’m for preventative medicine.
    Why is there a cancer? What has our realpolitik done for and to them? Why do we continue along the same path and keep on creating more animosity and fertile grounds for creating more terrorists.

    We have to put ourselves in their shoes. View ourselves through their eyes. What are we doing that allows people to be easily convinced and accept that terrorism is the only way to “combat” us? Think.

  12. BOB HASTY

    BOB HASTYGenius_badge said, 23 days ago

    By Scott’s reasoning, this toon describes the BUSH-CHENEY Republicans who want to rule this world through lying, fear and bigotry, all wrapped in a pretty package of Christian Absolutism.

    Prescription: read Galatians [ALL OF IT!!!]

  13. comYics

    comYics said, 23 days ago

    omQ R : “Sherffius is just describing one type of terrorist.
    There are and have been others.”

    om Q R, as simple as attacking other posters on this site, that is terrorist minded mentality.

  14. charlie555

    charlie555 said, 23 days ago

    ”What are we doing that allows people to be easily convinced and accept that terrorism is the only way to “combat” us? Think.”

    What did Jesus do to the Jews who hated Him? Or the Jews to the Nazis who hated them?

    Sometimes we are hated just for who we are.

  15. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, 22 days ago

    “W” is gone…….OBAMBI cancelled the War On Terror…..welcome to the real “bush-league”

  16. lalas

    lalas said, 22 days ago

    Meganut – he most certainly did not. Just because your feeble brain WANTS to think he has done something…. doesn’t make it true.

  17. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, 22 days ago

    comYics: I have absolutely no idea what your statment just said (!)

    Charlie555 said: Sometimes we are hated just for who we are.
    No. We are hated for our arrogance, what we represent, have done and continue doing. We really don’t think much of the peoples of the Middle-East (or much anywhere else that isn’t considered part of “developed” world)

    One of the most asinine phrases ever coined in the recent past was:” They hate our freedoms” 20 Dec, 2001. G W Bush

    That stupid rhetoric set the scene for not wanting to understand why they did hate us.

  18. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 22 days ago

    In the recent “war”, over 1,000 Gaza residents (almost entirely civilians) were killed, and the area destroyed,again. Israel claimed 30 Israelis (most soldiers) died. Penning up turkeys and shooting at them is even illegal in Italy now- why can’t the U.N., or the world Jewish community reign in THEIR junk yard dog?

    “Terrorist” is a hat worn by many.

  19. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, 22 days ago

    When civilian casualties are casually labelled as “collateral damage”, what do you think the casaulties’ family think of those who caused the “collateral damage”?
    Graciously accept the term or view them as terrorists since they live in terror thereafter? From where do the next wave of terrorists come from?
    Tell me what the term “shock and awe” was about? A fireworks display or designed to terrorise the population into submission?
    Sure, they hate us just for who we are.

  20. striper77

    striper77 said, 22 days ago

    They should have Obama and all the democrat senators names next to the word Terrorist.

  21. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, 22 days ago

    scotty, I’m a buddhist. It means I believe I believe in karma, but I’ll let you do some research to find out if being buddhist means you believe in God or not, exercise your brain.

    My beliefs tell me that bad actions (ie, killing 3000 people in New York) lead to suffering in this or other lives, for has long as you need to, one life ater another (kinda like a broken vinyl record… Imagine the Macarena, over and over and over and over… FOREVER!). I could be telling that but not everyone believes the same things I do so when I make a point, I stick to what I can see that the others see as well, I stick to physical realities.

  22. comYics

    comYics said, 22 days ago

    Its amazing omR Q how your first sentence in that comment and your last sentence in that comment answer each other. Bravo.

  23. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, 22 days ago

    ^ comYics I think you may have misunderstood my comment. I grew up with terrorism. It wasn’t by religious fanatics as John Sherffius describes in his poem and that’s the point I wished to make. The fact is that in my home country they were also freedom fighters who resorted to committing acts of terrorism. It’s called desperation but they were acts of terrorism nonetheless.
    This is why I ask you to put yourselves in their shoes. What and who has led and convinced them to go commit grotesque murder against innocents?

    In your own country you have had domestic cases of terrorism who were also not primarily led by religious conviction (McVeigh, Kaczynski). At least they were easier to understand, weren’t they?

    Sherffius’s poem is a little misleading, well, narrow in its focus. That is what I was pointing out.

    Your previous comments on this forum have shown me that you do not wish to think much. Gives you a headache?

  24. charlie555

    charlie555 said, 22 days ago

    omQ R

    McVeigh and Kaczynski are easy to dismiss because their actions were due to confused thinking (McVeigh) and mental instability (Kaczynski).

    Bin Laden is very intelligent and very rational. He knows that Islam - a religion of fear and bribery - can never support the freedoms allowed by Christianity - a religion of love and sacrifice.

    I would not be surprised to learn he even intellectually knows Christianity to be the true Faith and hates it for that reason (like Satan, knowing God, hates Him). And hates his own people because they are in ignorance.

    The most dangerous and misanthropic men are those who know the Truth and hate it. They have full knowledge of the “enemy” camp, and use it against all men.

    If Bid Laden had one bomb that would destroy the West, and another bomb that would destroy all nations, and could use only one, I have no doubt
    he would use the second.

  25. pbarnrob

    pbarnrob said, 21 days ago

    @Charlie; “Love and Sacrifice?”

    Look up [The Children’s Crusade].

    Religions may start with Love, but quickly become distracted by the Building Fund as they get Organized. Then it’s not about Love, but Power.

    The Vatican, (among the rest of Organized Religions as well), is a Political entity. And people do Very Sick things for Power.

    omQ’s right, but it’s Very Very Hard to walk in another’s sandals. We still need to try it, to try to understand what someone will do when their back’s against the wall.

    Shalom, Saalam, Shanti. May you find Peace.

  26. comYics

    comYics said, 16 days ago

    omQ R typed “comYics: I have absolutely no idea what your statment just said (!)”

    The only thing I was pointing out about that comment, is that attacking other posters is a form of terrorism.

    omQ R, the countries are so corrupted, dont think America is any less corrupted due to their more thought out cover up. My point states, killing is killing regardless. We dont need it. The Christian Bible teaches peace, and not being greedy, something the corrupted money hungry wicked doers of each country are fighting against. It doesnt give us right to go out killing the way theyd gladly do in order to save their stolen riches theyve acquired from us workers(slaves). We are to encourage and live peaceably with each other, not blowing each other up.

    We arent against each other, we’re against those corrupted ideas of greed and that selfishness disease spreading so rapidly, where innocent suffer for no other reason than for arrogant, ignorant, self serving corrupted demon followers only trying to get for themselves and dont care who is harmed in the process, ways of thinking.

  27. comYics

    comYics said, 16 days ago

    pbarnrob, wicked and corrupted ways shouldnt be allowed in such establishments and that will straighten that problem of “building funds out. It is not necessary in many situations to have a building to learn of religion, though I understand its purpose also. If one has to go off course in order to keep its building or land, than it doesnt appear its intended course is very important to him/her.

    One whose true course is in the foundation of goodness, trueness and uprightness, isnt going to change its course because it gets attacked by a building fund problem, the building fund isnt the focus. The maintaining of trueness and uprightness is.

  28. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, 16 days ago

    comYics: said: “The only thing I was pointing out about that comment, is that attacking other posters is a form of terrorism.”

    comYics said 1st off : om Q R, as simple as attacking other posters on this site, that is terrorist minded mentality.
    I misunderstood this as a criticism of me actually, for attacking others, which I was obviously was not, hence my dismissive reply. It was therefore said in error and you have my apologies.

    So you were providing an example of what terrorism was?
    Some posters on this site? I don’t think so. This is why I completely misunderstood yout statement.
    They do not instill terror. No one on this site lives in terror of another forum user.
    You have taken a concept and run off with it. Now anything and everything is terrorism.
    There are posters here who attack others in an ad hominen fashion but that is hardly terrorism.
    I don’t see any cyber-bullying either which is the closest that could be construed as a form of instilling terror.

  29. comYics

    comYics said, 15 days ago

    I dont have terror from a terrorist omR Q, I could care less about their intents to harm me.

    Terrorism compared to going out blowing up people, attacking people for no reason, simply compares to quarrels, strifes.

  30. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    ^ Comparing apples with pears.

  31. M Henri Day

    M Henri Day said, 14 days ago

    Terrorists, Mr Sheffius ? Are you talking about people who, at almost no personal risk to themselves, drop bombs from aeroplanes on cities, towns and villages, or fire rockets from ships, or control drones from half a world away ? Or perhaps you refer to the politicians who, through the charming mechanism of the chain of command, order them to do so ?…

    Henri

  32. comYics

    comYics said, 14 days ago

    Here is some insite omR Q. Wickedness is wickedness regardless of its size. A parasite can cause much damage.