Wealth Qualifications For Terrorists?

I hope this isn't a case of manipulated statistics.

My personal beliefs about government run more towards the "leave me alone" end of the spectrum. I don't go to the point of full-blown libertarianism, but I don't think that government has as many legitimate purposes as even the Republican Party does. I want to be able to live my life without interference as much as reasonably possible.

Reading this report, it looks like I'm not alone. I just have a better way of expressing my disaffection with the system.

Right now, I qualify as poor (even poorer after dealing with Florida's Department of Motor Vehicles today. What a nightmare! But since the problem was mainly of my own making, I guess I can't complain too much), but I have relatively unfettered liberty to do most anything I please. So when I get pissed, I find an outlet. Sometimes I complain to friends, sometimes I write my feelings here, sometimes I internalize the issue. The choice of how to react is always mine.

In nations most likely to produce terrorists, they don't have that choice. Tell your friend how much you disliked your dealings with the Palestinian DMV, you're likely to find yourself hanging by your toenails from a light pole as everyone in town comes by to take some licks at you with a rubber hose. Write something like this site and they'll throw you in religious jail for the next 40 years or so. Your only choice is to internalize the feelings.

So the pressure builds and builds and builds. Internalizing a problem is not the best way to deal with it (usually). Do it enough and eventually you want to lash out at someone or something with an irrational fury and hatred.

Add in the demagogues running most terrorist factory nations and you've got a recipe for disaster. People who want to lash because of the government, but they can't lash out at the government. Demagogues who convince them that all their problems are the fault of the Jews and the Americans. Demagogues who convince them that their lives will never improve; that their misery can be ended only by a glorious martyrdom operation, which will help to free the rest of the nation from the shackles of the evil Zionist repression.

The rage, the hatred and the need to act build to a furious crescendo. And when they reach their peak, one of the manipulative demagogues straps an explosive vest on them and points them towards Israel or some sends them on some similar suicide mission.

The terrorist dies in a blaze of discontent, not ever realizing the source of his internal torment.

The demagogue moves on to the next victim.

Choice is a wonderful right.