How has terrorism affected you and your day to day life?
483279
I work across the street from Ground Zero.  I was there on September 11, and I am still there.\n\nThere is nowhere in the US I will not go because of terrorism, but I will not go to Afghanistan.\n\nI blame Osama bin Laden and his followers.
535077
No, I mean "hell no."  We do so much to try and avoid civilian injury and casulty, we do more to try and defend their rights, and are working to leave the country.  Terrorist are working to inflict fear, create hatred, and in the name of an extreme version of a peaceful religion.
417629
I had a dream a couple of months before 9-11.  In the dream I was in a window with my mother and cousin.  We were looking out of it when a plan came into view.  The plane came right into the window and the building exploded. Then it was total darkness and all I felt was intense heat. Then I woke up.  I was freaked out for a while over that one. I thought it was a sign that I was going to hell. Then 9-11 happened and my dream popped into my head.  Scary but true. The amazing thing about all of this is, that Tuesday, I was going over to the city to go to my credit union. I live in jersey so i was gonna take the path to the WTC and go shopping at Century 21(which was right across the street from the twin towers).  I planned to get over there by 9am but I overslept.  Thank God! As I was walking out the door I got a call from my sister telling me to turn on the news, a plane had hit one of the towers.  I will never forget that.  Everything happens for a reason. I really felt blessed because had I not overslept I would of been there when the plane hit.
195797
Terrorism is only terrorism, which ever side you remain. Killings  innocents in World Trade Center, At London Railway stations or in Delhi crowded Markets are always terrorism which ever side you are. F-16  are bombing remote villages because terrorist are hiding there.
702819
Turn on the television. \n\nThe mass media, video games, lack of traditional family values have had a great impact on today's youth.  \n\nToday we live in a world where being a thug with a grill and pullin' ladies that have been scarred by life is cool.  In fact if you work hard enough at it you can spread a message on how to live a short and shallow life.  \n\nPeople also rather get diamond necklaces for their dogs instead of helping someone who is starving to death.  \n\nWhat kind of society do we live in that places material gain above a human life.  Sure, we are a powerful nation...we shouldn't fear an attack from a terrorist, we need to really pay attention to what we are teaching our future generations.\n\nHopefully we can make a change!\nPeace...
1141402
The events of September 11, 2001 made me realize the US is vulnerable.  I had always kind of felt that threats like terrorists attacks were not really a threat to us.  Then we were attacked like that on our own soil and I saw how vulnerable we really are.  It is only by the grace of God that humans have not wiped themselves out by now.
386068
I had a Pakistani classmate in middle school in the states who was harassed by other students not long after the 911 tragedy. They were making fun of him in the bus and they were saying racial slurs to him in class. It's a sad thing to see how the terrorists' act of hatred had influenced and reinforced some of us to make judgements on people based on their race and/or religion and not on how they are as a person. You can't fight fire with fire.
982316
i have been over there 7 times. i was also at ground zero helping recover bodies from the 9-11 attacks. My marriage has ended in divorce. I have PTSD, and need to take medication so i don't fly off the handle, and hurt some one. it has made me a different person. i think in the future we need to find ways to prevent this from happening, and maybe be more open as a government to the perception of other countries about why  we do what we do.\n  People all over are more or less the same, it just seems when we mix religious ideology and politics all into one big pot ....no good can come from it.  it's mostly just made me sad and introspective. I do love this country and our ideas, we just got to get better at sharing our strengths
1148404
Like anything else in this crazy world, the terror alerts were a reaction to panic, fear, paranioa, and propaganda.\n\nPeople don't like to feel threatened, especially when they can do nothing about the threat.  It doesn't help that humans have an inherent "voyueristic" side- ever slow down to check out the accident on the side of the road?  We like to witness "bad news".  \n\nAs such, the media in this country have bombarded us with messages about terror, attacks, and the possiblity for attack.  We became afraid, and demanded immediate results for protection (while we continued to watch the news which fed our fear)\n\nEventually, after some time- we realize our lives, barring a few minor inconveniences, have not changed.  We still have bills to pay and work to do.  We have become a little less fearful.  The terror alerts aren't as visible these days NOT because there is no news to report (c'mon, if they REALLY wanted, they'd feed us SOME sort of crap) but because we stopped caring and stopped demanding to be updated every second regarding the "War on Terror"\n\nWe've been living with "Terror on our doorstep" for a while now, and we've become jaded.\n\nThink about the cold war- children from the 1950s and 1960s were taught in school about how to prepare for nuclear fallout, what to do in the event of an air raid- again, paranoia and propaganda at work.\n\nEventually, as we got into the 1970s and 1980s, we no longer seemed as paranoid.  We stopped teaching children to "take cover".  The cold war ended.  We became complacent, and we forgot how to be afraid.\n\nInevitably, history repeats itself (maybe not in the same country, but across the world, history repeats daily) and something happened to cause alarm and panic.  This time it happened to the United States.\n\nEventually, we will grow out of this and all the crap starts over again.\n\nIt has nothing to to with conservatism, liberalism, communism, muslim, whatever.\n\nIt's all based from fear, paranoia, and propaganda.
180584
I'm not afraid of them and it's not going to affect my daily life.  After all, London has been the target for terrorists since the troubles began in Northern Ireland back in 1969.\n\nI do think it's probable that there will be another terrorist atack at some point.  After all, there were the failed attacks on 21st July last year and if you've been watching the news recently you'll know that several people are on trial for allegedly plotting a terror campaign which it appears would have included targets in and around London (e.g. Bluewater).
740744
You are a very kind and open minded person to come to that conclusion I'm sorry but any time any life is lost and someone sees joy in it i see little red flags and i am upset. I don't have a problem with terrorist because of political reasons i have a prob. with them because they kill innocent people for their and their governments gain and satisfaction i believe that is sick and i pray for these people.
350609
What is the Identity or Meaning of Terror in todays News and Media?
248634
i don't know. personally I have always been against it and have believed from the beginning that this has been handled the wrong way. i'm no politician, but i don't see how you can handle terrorism by waging war on a country that now we are saying we are liberating. what kind of hipocrits are we? look what we did to their country and families. Do you think those individuals were responsible for a maniacs choices? They had no more control over the situation then you and I  and the men in charge of it is in hiding and the countymen are still suffering as are our boys and girls.
930353
I have family members who have passed from it.  I do not live in fear because there is no sense in living in fear of something that you have no control over.  It is a very scary thing... and it saddens me deeply... i think cancer makes me more angry than anything.
606911
Terrorism is not new.  The weapons and options of the terrorists are more powerful as society advances.\n\nThere is a little known amazing act of terrorism that occurred in Michigasn during May of 1927:\n\nhttp://www.msu.edu/~daggy/tbsd/\n\nSpeaking as a person of broad education (science and humanities, acquired on my own), I think the future will involve better education in ethics and morality and identifying and controlling potential criminals and terrorists.\n\nThere is currently great failure in both these areas.\n\nThere are too many people who are deprived of education and opportunity, but many terrorists are not from these.\n\nA terrorist is mostly a very evil person who does not know how to work for a better world.\n\nWhy don't you explore the motivations of the man involved in the Michigan incident, also a suicide, and see how it matches modern profiles, Timothy McVeigh, others.\n\nThere was a man in Colorado who drove a bulldozer around inflicting millions of dollars of damages, also killed himself.\n\nTerrorists who wish to inflict great damage while killng themselves.  Needs some good analysis.\n\nPlease study this for us.  I am already working on other things, cannot help, sorry.\n\nIt is far from being solely an Islamic fundamentalist problem.
154658
You, who?  You, as an individual or the general will (i.e. the people, the government, the sovereignty)?   True, if an individual, for whatever reason, does not feel terrorized by terrorism then to that individual terrorism is not scary.   But even then it does not mean that just because “you” are not “scared” of terrorism, its destructive consequences cannot affect you and/or inflict pain and mayhem upon those that you happen to love and care for.   In that sense then, terrorism is and should be scary to all of us - we all have something and/or someone of value to lose, don't we?    Not to mention that, terrorism is clearly an act that directly infringes upon an individual’s right to liberty and pursuit of happiness.   Many of us do not have a fear of death, for instance, but does that mean we would enthusiastically prefer to be maimed or killed in a deliberate act of violence that we had no control over?   You have even less control over your own fate in a terrorist attack than if you had committed a suicide or were involved in an accident!    …The government, on the other hand, as the general will, should never react out of terror or fear of anything, but rather concern for the well-being of the public and the preservation and enforcement of the constitution and the citizens’ rights.     In other words, terrorism remains an act of violence whether we are individually terrorized by it or not.   Besides, generally speaking, terrorism’s true aim is not to create fear in the mind of an individual (that would be a mere common criminal act) but the masses.   Although the individual is always the innocent bystander – the true UNIT of terror, in the mind of a terrorist, is never measured in individuals (fearful or not) but in masses.    …Conclusion:  YES, even if terrorism does not scare “you”, it is still terrorism.
942870
You are more likely to be a victim of crime than terrorism. This just shows you where their priorities lie. Scaremongering rather than solving.