Bam! Just like that! "Sticks and Stones..."

An interesting article appeared in the national news today. An expose, if you will, after a week filled with various warnings about "terrorist activities" the world around...(we have had a very busy week of this sort of information in much of the press!) and the danger that we are in and reportedly have been in despite the western alliance's brink of victory in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Some of the latest reports offer us that "white Europeans" from "Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Romania and Estonia" have been actively training for service to al-Qaeda as would-be terrorists. A major accomplishment if it's true, with the goal of recruiting western non-Muslims to the cause of doing the bidding of al-Qaeda. So much for the battle to win the hearts and minds of the invaded people of the middle east, huh? So stop the rhetoric on it and the s(pl)urge, already.
But back to the purpose of my writing about this today:
Considering that what was once called simple assault according to the laws in the United States is now being called "an act of terrorism" thanks to the Patriot Act and Homeland Security initiatives... (I direct your attention to the not so distant case of the "hockey Dads" who get physical with their kids coaches and pepper the national news every so often)...I would be very careful in choosing what one may choose to believe about the latest "terrorist encounter" they read of, based upon who originally made the claims, what kind of spin was used by the press in the article published about it and just what standards were used in attaching the new "terror-anything" label to those activities being reported about.
Until water boarding, sleep deprivation, extreme exposure to temperature change and electric shock can be openly called what it is, "torture", and the use of that torture can finally be recognized as a genuine act of terrorism even by those empires that use it to meet their own strategic objectives, all bets should be off on who the actual terrorists are in any given case. There are obviously more than we can even imagine. And many of them who hide behind being a world power or being part of an alliance with one are controlling the story, the spin, the language and the writing of daily events and resultant history for their own purposes and to their own advantage.