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manipulation, and others that are used on all of us daily to entice us: to buy, to try, to
donate, to vote, to join, to change, to believe, to love, to hate the enemy.‖
Attorney General Ashcroft argues against a mind-control defense for Lindh, saying:
―Terrorists didn‘t compel John Walker to join with them. John Walker chose terrorists.‖
(Baltimore Sun, 3/31/02, Internet)
Terrorism
Natanyahu on Causes of Terrorism
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented recently that ―. ..the root
cause of terrorism is totalitarianism. Only a totalitarian regime, by systematically
brainwashing its subjects, can indoctrinate hordes of killers to suspend all moral constraints
for the sake of a twisted cause.‖ Netanyahu denied that social conditions were the main
cause, saying that most violent movements that developed in non-totalitarian societies did
not aim to kill civilians. (Wall Street Journal, Internet, 4/19/02)
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