Terrorists
And Freedom Fighters
1st EDITION
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
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Lidija Rangelovska
Lidija Rangelovska
A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2002
First published by Central Europe Review
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I.Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
II.Macedonia to the Macedonians
III.The Black Hand
IV.The Insurgents and the Swastika
V.KLA - The Army of Liberation
VI.Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behaviour and
Terrorism
VII.Appendix: The Crescent and the Cross
VIII.The Author
IX.About "After the Rain"
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
"'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even interms of the same moral principles being sought. The law ofdiminishing returns applies to morality."Thomas SowellThere's a story about Robespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon ashe saw a mob assembling outside."I must see which way the crowd is headed," he is reputed to havesaid: "For I am their leader."http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimism/People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to bejust causes are alternately known as "terrorists" or "freedomfighters".They all share a few common characteristics:1.A hard core of idealists adopt a cause (in most cases, thefreedom of a group of people). They base their claims onhistory - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on alanguage shared by the members of the group and, mostimportant, on hate and contempt directed at an "enemy". Thelatter is, almost invariably, the physical or cultural occupierof space the idealists claim as their own.
2.The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlesslyas ever escalating means justify an ever shrinking cause. Theinitial burst of grandiosity inherent in every such undertakinggives way to cynical and bitter pragmatism as both enemy andpeople tire of the conflict.3.An inevitable result of the realpolitik of terrorism is thecollaboration with the less savoury elements of society.Relegated to the fringes by the inexorable march of commonsense, the freedom fighters naturally gravitate towards likeminded non-conformists and outcasts. The organization iscriminalized. Drug dealing, bank robbing and other manner oforganized and contumacious criminality become integralextensions of the struggle. A criminal corporatism emerges,structured but volatile and given to internecine donnybrooks.4.Very often an un-holy co-dependence de