Well I have little problem with bankers per-se, assassination politics was originally made to target government officials but the original poster did put a bit of a far left spin on it. It is nonsense to say anything is a terrorist force since the word terrorism has no agreed upon definition. It is mostly just used for propaganda. Military call what you call terrorists violent non-state actors. The only distinction between violent non state actors and violent state actors is that state actors are bigger forces (if violent non state actors were big enough they would be states). The people who know the most about what you call terrorism don't think that terrorism is a real thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Generation_Warfare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism If you cut to the core of the matter, terrorism is non state sanctioned violence. If a non state actor goes on a killing rampage against druggies because they think we are evil they are terrorists but if the chinese government kills its citizens for drug possession they are not terrorists simply because they are a state. The only core distinction between terrorists and government is one is big enough to be a state. There are superficial characteristics too, VNSAS are more likely to hijack a plane and fly it into a building than firebomb a city, but this stems from their size and resources: they have to use non-conventional tactics to have any chance of defeating the much larger forces they fight with. Asymmetric combatants is another good term for what you call terrorists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare terrorism is certainly a propaganda word that the state uses to try to illegitimize the violence of non-state actors while implicitly legitimizing the violence that they regularly engage in Everybody wrongs everyone else in the games humans play. I see firebombing a city and flying a hijacked plane into a building as being equal, the government see the first as being legitimate and the second as being terrorism (well they don't really see it this way but they want you to). I don't sympathize with islamic extremists in the slightest (although I can certainly sympathize with insurgents who fight off invading armies), I just don't make the distinction between islamic and jewish and christian and nationalist and etc extremism that you do. In the end it boils down to state actors and non state actors, and flying a flag and being part of the UN doesn't give you right to murder millions of innocent people with bombs and pretend to be morally better than someone who kills a few thousand innocent people with a hijacked airplane. The world is run by extremists and they all fuck over their enemies and they are all equally bad. And the US wants to lock up all the drug users because they consist largely of extremist christians, and they don't run into muslim lands strapped with bombs because they have enough money for remote control bomber planes etc. People in USA are routinely locked up for exercising their right to free speech, have you not heard of CP being illegal to view ? A significant culture makes you think that is okay, to lock up those people for looking at and even drawing things in some cases.....and a significant part of their culture thinks the same about people who draw cartoons of Mohammad. People everywhere are indoctrinated and do horribly evil things to each other, it doesn't mean the largest organized group of evil doers is somehow less evil due to their numbers.  The US is run by sick religious nutcases also and their sickness leads to just as real suffering and death and this makes no difference when the US government drop bombs and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and then they call people who kill a few thousand evil terrorists. They are both evil terrorists. But terrorism isn't real . You think many of the American soldiers killing muslims in these wars don't think they are fighting for God? I think you extremely misinterpret what I say anyway US has killed more innocent people and imprisoned more innocent people in the past 100 years than all of the iihadists have in the same time frame....seems pretty obvious who the bigger terrorists are to me , but doesn't excuse either of them