Question: What is the different between Freedom Fighter and Terrorists?

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Could anyone tell me what is the different between Freedom Fighters and Terrorists?

May be I am wrong, but please correct me............... I think the major different is,

Terrorists: The people with no ruling power.
Freedom Fighters: People in the Goverment now.

Right?
 
No Freedom fighters are an armed rebellion whose main aim is to overthrow an oppressive government.

Terrorists are a group of people who for political reasons want to intimidate a certain government. Most terrorism is based on religious/political views.
 
They are the same thing in my book. All depends on your vantage point.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter...
 
In my opinion a "Freedom Fighter" would only go after military targets whereas a "terrorist" is quite willing to kill and maim innocent people and civilians to achieve his goals. It's a question of ethics. If I was fighting for the freedom of my country I would not, even to my own hurt, participate in the killing of innocents.
 
If you look up the definitions of the two you will see they are quite different.
 
Garyvdh said:
In my opinion a "Freedom Fighter" would only go after military targets whereas a "terrorist" is quite willing to kill and maim innocent people and civilians to achieve his goals. It's a question of ethics. If I was fighting for the freedom of my country I would not, even to my own hurt, participate in the killing of innocents.
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That is why the ANC in my book remain terrorists, same with the extremist groups in the middle east and asia today.

A good example of ethical resistance would be the French during the second world war. They only targeted German military targets.
 
Garyvdh said:
That is why the ANC in my book remain terrorists, same with the extremist groups in the middle east and asia today.

A good example of ethical resistance would be the French during the second world war. They only targeted German military targets.
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But ANC call themselves "Freedom Fighters"........ :confused:
It makes me confused!!!
 
kkcheuk said:
But ANC call themselves "Freedom Fighters"........ :confused:
It makes me confused!!!
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Well, if you were the kind of person who was willing to kill innocent people to achieve your political goals, then you would have no problem lying about who you were, wouldn't you? All Terrorists call themselves "Freedom Fighters", but not all "Freedom Fighters" are Terrorists.
 
FF/Terrs all are failures, because they can not express/convince anyone except through the barrel of a gun. Either their ideals are not worthwhile enough to change peoples minds, or they do not know what they really want. (See dogs chasing cars.)
 
Garyvdh said:
A good example of ethical resistance would be the French during the second world war. They only targeted German military targets.
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I kinda think thats only because there were generally only military targets in occupied France....?
 
w1z4rd said:
I kinda think thats only because there were generally only military targets in occupied France....?
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um, how do you arrive at that conclusion? There were still millions of French people living in occupied France.

The difference is... instead of blowing up the Germans while they were sitting at a Cafe on the Rue de Borge along with 20 French Civlians, the French Resitance waited until they got back into their vehicles and were out on the Road back to the base before they attacked them.

That is how you can tell the difference. The terrorist blows up his own people and civilians along with his target. The ethical Freedom Fighter loves freedom and liberty and innocence and would rather die than kill a civilian (which is murder by the way).
 
Is it possible as a freedom fighter to fight a government that has a professional army at its disposal. IMO a freedom fighter is someone who's cause is just! A terrorist's cause is hardly ever just and he makes demands that are impossible to meet and even when you give him what he demands he continues to fight.
 
larrychang said:
Is it possible as a freedom fighter to fight a government that has a professional army at its disposal. IMO a freedom fighter is someone who's cause is just! A terrorist's cause is hardly ever just and he makes demands that are impossible to meet and even when you give him what he demands he continues to fight.
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That's a good point. Most of the time Freedom Fighters are fighting to liberate their own country from oppressors... Terrorists usually are interfering in another country or for a religious cause.... this is a crucial distinction... and in the case of the Palestinian territory the distinction is more subtle. Hamas may appear to be freedom fighters, but there ultimate goal is not the freedom of their people, but the promotion of Islam as the only religion.
 
The irgun are today called freedom fighters but were a Jewish terrorist group , they bombed innocent civilians and they have a museum made in their honor in Israel, they were absorbed into the IDF, some Palestinian groups do the same but are called terrorists.

So yeah... double standards.
 
What would you call the Afrikaners that overthrew the English way back when?
 
A freedom fighter becomes a terrorist when they start killing civilians.
 
kkcheuk said:
Could anyone tell me what is the different between Freedom Fighters and Terrorists?

May be I am wrong, but please correct me............... I think the major different is,

Terrorists: The people with no ruling power.
Freedom Fighters: People in the Goverment now.

Right?
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Well it could be a guerrilla or a partisan too. A terrorist TERRORISES ie his aim it to frighten the population in order to get his point across (eg to affect a change policy). A freedom fighter/guerilla/partisan would be an irregular soldier but who fights the forces of the establishment the aim being to win at the end by a series of tactical strikes in the form of assymetric warfare.

Terroists use strikes to not always achieve tactical victories but strategic wins. Terrorists in Mumbai killed many people but they had no hope in hell to keep the hotels they occupied, the military came along and wiped them out winning back those areas. The terrorist aims were to frighten or destabilise society. On the other hand guerillas may have occupied a military base in the hope of holding onto it and not having it relinquished to government forces, see Tiger Tamils.

This can overlap of course. In Afganistan Taleban guerrillas fight NATO forces but elements of the Taleban also detonate bombs in busy marketplaces to terrorise the civilians. Freedom fighter the former, terrorist the latter.
 
PeterCH said:
Well it could be a guerrilla or a partisan too. A terrorist TERRORISES ie his aim it to frighten the population in order to get his point across (eg to affect a change policy). A freedom fighter/guerilla/partisan would be an irregular soldier but who fights the forces of the establishment the aim being to win at the end by a series of tactical strikes in the form of assymetric warfare.

Terroists use strikes to not always achieve tactical victories but strategic wins. Terrorists in Mumbai killed many people but they had no hope in hell to keep the hotels they occupied, the military came along and wiped them out winning back those areas. The terrorist aims were to frighten or destabilise society. On the other hand guerillas may have occupied a military base in the hope of holding onto it and not having it relinquished to government forces, see Tiger Tamils.

This can overlap of course. In Afganistan Taleban guerrillas fight NATO forces but elements of the Taleban also detonate bombs in busy marketplaces to terrorise the civilians. Freedom fighter the former, terrorist the latter.
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Well put.
 
Then you get those people who are called Terrorist Sympathisers. They are the ones who condone the killing of innocent civilians by the terrorists because they have the same ideology as the terrorists.
 
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