Every so often I hear that my government
'have declared that the organisation
known as (add name here... ) are terrorists'.
What comes next is that the banned group
can only be spoken of in the national press
under the new name that the government
have tarred them with, in a press
where how they are written about
is only on government terms,
to complete their 'terrorist' status.
After terrorists can't be known
by their chosen name,
or in an otherwise relatively open media
can't speak their own words in their own voice,
it is but a short hop skip and jump
before the government decide
to make the terrorists permanent
enemies of the state who are never
to be negotiated with, even when
there is win-win political gain to be made.
The terrorists are now the eternal enemy
and will never be accepted
on their own terms ever again.
Until they no longer matter.
