There are many causes of political and terrorist murders. But the reason for the act is seeking and receiving publicity.
Why do people commit political or terrorist murder?
Could it be to support or publicize their “cause” or their “manifesto” or their “motive” by terrorizing their enemies?
Or could it be they want to become martyrs for their cause?
Have the previous political or terrorist murderers appeared to new future murderers as successful?
Our community must come to realize that the publicity that the killers receive is the reason for their unspeakable act. New killers must notice that previous killers have become famous and the previous killers’ names and “causes” have been well publicized.
Writing on spent shells gets publicity.
So we have given the perpetrators of these unspeakable acts just what they sought, the public spotlight. They succeed in what they want by killing people.
My point is that we (everybody) should cooperate in not allowing the press and the world to know the killers’ names and their purpose. If political and terrorist murderers commit unspeakable acts, we should not speak about them and their ideas.
These killers should just disappear.
In the 1970s, after many aircraft hijackings, the airlines and the government agreed to stop cooperating with the press and to minimize publicity and notoriety for hijackers, and the hijackings went away.
Why don’t we learn from history and stop giving the bad guys exactly what they want?
Please tell influential people you know to do what it takes to stop giving killers what they are seeking, which is publicity.
Mike Kimbrel
Oakville
