Ireland and Rwanda

For the last few weeks I have been explaining the real roots of terrorism and how to fight it.
Ireland should be in the table below, I'll enter it later.  I would not be surprised to learn, as is asserted in some places, that the roots of Irish and Welsh are not from the Germanic branch of Indo-European, and not Indo-European at all

Rwanda must be brought up because it is the only example on the African continent of a country whose borders roughly match a single language.  A bunch of racists in America, all Americans in the media, called the Hutu-Tutsi conflict "ethnic."  They were speaking out their asses.  There is no such thing as an ethnic Hutu or Tutsi.  It's all a colonial legacy from when the Belgians ruled Rwanda.

In other words, the Rwanda crisis, like the terrorist problem defined below, is, in fact, a legacy of imperialism/colonialism.

You Only Need Bombs To Make Democracy

If any member of the intellectual classes of al-Iraq are unhappy with Iran-Contra-Drugs-John Negroponte, or see Allawi and Yawer as CIA tools, and decide not to help al-Iraq, democracy will still flourish, because we can simply kill anyone who resists. Forever.
There is no chance anyone could be offended by this, and that is why it only takes bombs to make a democracy.

There are no counter-examples

     One may have examined my last two posts and scratched their head and said to themselves "Well, what about..."  I can only find one serious counter-example, which I address here.  I will now address the most obvious examples which might lead one to wonder if there is a linguistic base to terrorism.  Before I get into the examples, please simply imagine how easily negotiations fall apart over small miscommunications, even when both sides are speaking the same language.

Country	Issue	Language
Israel	Palestinians	Most Palestinians speak Hebrew.  Few Israelis speak Arabic.  Palestinians have to know two languages just to get by in their "own" country.  Imagine having to understand a Russian immigrant in the IDF yelling orders in his accent-ridden Hebrew.  Remember, your life is on the line.  A tribe from Peru was also made honorary Israelis.  Their Hebrew must also be interesting.
Colombia	FARC & ELN	This case is mostly about the drug war, however, the concerns of indigenous populations, speakers of Native American languages, have been adopted by the "terrorists."
Mexico	Chiapas	Again, the Chiapas rebels adopted the concerns of local Native American speakers, who are most numerous, of all Mexican States, in terms of percentages, in Chiapas.
Switzerland	Four languages	The first three, and next eight, Swiss Cantons, spoke German. All but one of the non-German speaking Cantons were conquered by Switzerland, or attached by outside powers.  The law in Switzerland is published in German, French, Italian and Rhaeto-Romansh.  This is one of the more stable countries on Earth.

The Legitimacy of Government

  Following what appears below, we are left with the question "What makes a government legitimate?"

  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights attempts to solve this answer by creating a list of fifty items that all governments must follow.  This list is quite flawed, and includes many ideas which no government can support.  Was it designed with a one world government in mind?  Perhaps, but they still spent a long time crafting these rules, and their rules can be looked at for inspiration on these matters.  As an exercise, you can try to prioritize all fifty for yourself.

  I argue that there is one item, that does not appear in the Universal Declaration, that comes, for me, before any of the others, and it speaks directly to the issue of governmental legitimacy.

  If your government does not even bother to publish its laws in your language, can it expect you to follow them?

  If the judges, lawyers and jury, in your trial, do not speak your language, do you think you should expect justice?

  If the ultimate authority of your nation, for example, JP Bremer in al-Iraq, does not speak your language, do you expect them to hear you?

  There are, sadly, roughly 7,000 languages on Earth.  European imperial/colonial expansion has resulted in a system where only a dozen or so languages are, currently, particularly useful.  Science, which I believe is crucial now, is mostly done in my language, English.  Carving up nations based on linguistic (NOT ethnic, NOT "racial") groups is not going to create world peace.  But, it is important to note that the borders which carve up Africa, the Middle East, Southwest Asia, India, China, and Oceania, are all borders imposed by the ruling powers with NO consideration of local interests.  By comparison, when Europe redivided itself (Treaty of Westphalia (1648), Congress of Vienna (1815)) it was a SLAVE to the linguistic groups.

If it is good enough for "us," dammit, it is good enough for "them."

The Solution to the Problem of International Terrorism

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     PLEASE DON'T READ THIS VERSION This post has been updated and can be found here.

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   To pull up terrorism by the roots, we must know those roots.  Terrorism has three roots, injustice, phantom injustice, and insanity.  Thankfully the insane ones have an impossible time relating their insanity, but even one person can wield considerable life-threatening power nowadays, a la Ted Kaczinski.  Phantom injustice can easily be defeated with truth, but people don't always want to hear the truth, or might not trust the source.
  Instead of discussing categories of terrorists, I shall discuss actual terrorists, since the current incarnation of terrorism can not be solved until it is understood from all angles, in general and in particular.

  First, we shall focus on some of the world's largest nations internal terrorism problems, then pull the focus back, to show that their problems are, in fact, precisely analagous to our own.  Of less interest to the powers that be are why these problems exist today, so maybe you should just try a flurry of guesses.
NOTE: Not being a linguist myself, and understanding that the field is in flux, I sometimes link to information that will disagree with other linked information.  I can't say which is right, I don't know who can.  Ethnologue.com is fairly complete, so I regularly referred to it (Logue).  List of source web pages, giving full contexts, at end, and later.

	Terrorism	Languages	Maps	Trees	Random
China	Uyghur (*) One, Two, Three
		Chinese:	One, Two, Three	Logue, Humphries	Word Comparison
		Uyghur:	One, Two,, Three?	Logue	Uyghur History, Historical Map, Learn More
Russia	Chechen (*) One, Two, Three
		Russian:	Indo-Euro, Slavic, Slavic2	Logue
		Chechen:	One, Two, Three	Logue, Humphries
India	Tamil Tigers One, Two, Three
		Indic:	Indo-Euro, Indo-Iran, India	Logue, Creighton,	Comparing Languages, Ignore Religion
		Dravidian:	One, Two, Three	Logue
Spain	Basque Separatist (*) One, Two, Three
		Spanish:	Indo-Euro, Romance, Romance2	Logue
		Basque:	One, Two, Three	Logue	ETA Demands

(*) indicates alleged al-Qaeda connection I know about.
I found this page to be one of the best overall web pages on the topic, in English.  Unfortunately it is missing some maps, having split Indo-European into four parts, and only mapping three, for example.
I-E Global Map

  Easy then, I hope, it is to see how this parallels with the tension between the English and Arabic speaking worlds.