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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
no. but looking at the coverage, it occured to me that his ultimate suicide is no different than the bomber dying. they both act to kill, and I was thus questioning the earlier politically based arguments that calling the bombers "homicide" was somehow wrong.
It called an absurdist example, and is intended to perhaps maske some rethink their earlier position relative to the phrase "homicide" bombers.
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I don't know who might rethink their positions but I suspect people think "suicide bomber" b/c the homicide occurs as a result of the suicide (the dude blowing up becomes the weapon itself). But...you already know my position on suicide/homicide bombers and their apologists (my favorite: "these people have nothing and this is the only thing they can do to speak out"). More interesting (to me at least) was this quote from the woman in whose home the gunner was living, describing what she did after the gunner told her he was going to be famous and it was "all explained in the notes in my room":
Maruka-Kovac said she found the notes, called Hawkins' mother and then the police.
So this Maruka woman finds the notes but instead of calling the police right away, she calls the killer's Mom. I wonder how long that call was? And if she called police right away, could anyone have been saved?
