Gradually degenerating into ignorance and complacency.

Monday, December 04, 2006

redefining "insurgants"

We have people redefining enemies and categories, why not use something already in place -- "feral". Here's a site on Feral Children +, though really if you know the term feral it is not complimentary. Feral animals are introduced into an area and cause havoc and destruction, such as hooved animals in Australia as well as cats there. Killer bees are a feral species and Hawaii is plague by many invading species of plants and animals. I therefore, submit, that children can't be feral, but some people can be.

I can think of many times when dealing with a few people that they were feral, menaing that they should not have been there and really caused only trouble and havoc.


+ one video, for skeptics like myself, clearly shows the Ukranian girl isn't moving in a way akin to fast or varied terrain movement. That is a tabloid story. The other notable historical accounts are to be taken with some skepticism, as they generally lacked real validation. How many people were exposed to the "wild child". Generally, these children are taken in and hidden away, later shown to have been wild. Gosh -- lack credibility, but you'd think that a village might step up and take on the challenge or, better still, call the police and government about it. That is never the case.

I would suggest that there are feral groups in areas, coming in from Syria, Jordan, Iran, etc. to areas of Lebanon and Iraq. One thought would be that the US and "coalition forces" are the feral people, and others might contend that destabilizing groups are the feral people. Regardless, if you want to succeed in propoganda, use "feral" for it really smacks of "vile vermin, insideous rats infiltrating the ranks and consuming and ruining".

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