"Obviously, I'm prone to depression… a certain bleak attitude about the world… but I know I can handle it. Your kids though…"

日本的なマリア像 Japanese-style depictions of the Virgin Mary

Terrorism is not only a socially constructed term but a politically charged one that is dictated by what action that the labeler deems impermissible. When health insurance companies deny, delay, and depose millions of people to their inevitable deaths, it’s not deemed terroristic. It is an acceptable social murder and let’s not soften the term because it is in fact murder that they are committing. But that man’s one act exposed what the authoritarian class thinks of us all. We aren’t valuable.