RE: Terror

At 10:27 10/08/98 -0500, you wrote:
>You wrote: 
>
>>Probably. There's a thought, how's about the list members coming up 
>>with some 2185 "phantom foes" - organizations to launch the 
>>occaisional attack or to be attacked even more rarely for their 
>>terrorist goals.... some may have roots in 1998, but many may well 
>>have roots in the events between now and 2185. Ideas anyone?
>
>Sihks in the Kashmir.	That's ESU territory, but with the Islamic 
>Federation across the border.	And the Sihks don't want to be part of 
>either, I'm betting.
>
>Any number of Islamic outfits working for either the Kaliphate, the 
>Federation, or both.
>
>Revival of the Bader-Meinhoff gang or simillar European Marxist 
>nutcases sponsored by the ESU.  Especially common of Romanoff Hegemony.
>
>Earth First & Greenpeace: Now the Evil Corporate Pollutors are 
>disrupting the delicate ecosystems of other planets!  Never mind that 
>real enviormental concerns are presumed to have been fixed, as 
>evidenced by the fact that Earth is still important economically 2 
>centuries from now.  The True Believers[tm] will be ramming military 
>spacecraft and spiking trees across the galaxy.  
>
>Still got that nastiness going on on Bretonneux, Doullens, and 
>Compville.
>
>Any number of residuals on planets taken during various Solar Wars, 
>especially Neu Transvaal.  Boers don't give up--you have to kill them 
>off.
>
>Flakes R US--various libertarians who don't like the NAC, the King, or 
>organized government in general.  Strongest in Montana.
>
>Quebecois
>
>People who think they are God--see Koresh, Japanese nerve gas cult, 
>etc.
>
>Luddites: See Unabomber
>
>John M. Atkinson
>

John are you adding your name to the bottom of the list as a potential
terrorist group?

Anyway moving swiftly on...What about groups within the nations
themselves?
 Maybe a revival of the rightwingers in NSL?  New fascists, or a group
who
see war as the only redeeming route for the nation (Cult of Bismarck?
Blood and Steel).

NAC Republicans troublemakers wanting to rid us all of the monarchy.

FSE All sorts of separatist groups in the colonies. 

ESU Those pesky democratic fanatics.  Capitalism just wasn't enough for
them.

The various nations in the Universe are far to homogenous.  Theres bound
to
be trouble within their own borders too.  

Has anyone actually drawn up a map of the political boundaries of the
Earth
in FT?	I'd be interested to see.

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