Mondo Times Terrorism Poll Archive

This poll ran from August 15 to 21, 2005.

Mondo Times Poll Results

True or false: "Terror cannot be destroyed by weapons or signing a peace treaty." True 715/82% False 161/18%

Votes: 876

The quote is by George Lakoff, writing at Alternet.org on August 1, 2005. Lakoff is professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and a Senior Fellow of the Rockridge Institute.

Lakoff wrote: "The abstract noun, "terror," names not a nation or even people, but an emotion and the acts that create it. A "war on terror" can only be metaphorical. Terror cannot be destroyed by weapons or signing a peace treaty. A war on terror has no end. The president's war powers have no end. The need for a Patriot Act has no end."

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