State

I originally wrote this on another site in June 2006:

Question: Was Chinese dissident Jiang Ljun convicted of subversion with the help of Yahoo in providing the contents of Jiang's email account?

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What is terrorism?

Is it just ostensible display of violence? Is it just indiscriminate violence perpetrated by some groups of wayward people against the state and its citizens as we are most often led to believe? But is it not a state-sponsored idea that groups of wayward people commonly known as extremists only are reponsible for all those massacres and indiscriminate acts of violence?

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The American Heritage Dictionary defines ethics as:
1. system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.
2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics.
3. moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence.
4. (usually used with a singular verb) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.

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“In God We Trust�; four words that appear to be an honorable pharse to some but a complete offense to others. By having these four words on currency are we diminishing the line between church and state?

So whose idea was it to put this on currency in the first place?

It was a national crisis that resulted in the phrase “In God We Trust� being placed on America’s currency. During the Civil War, public opinion favored the recognition of God on our coins. As Rev. M. R. Watkinson wrote on November 13, 1861: “From my hearth I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters.�

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