Citations:the terrorists will have won

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 * 1) 1981, International Organization for the Study of Group Tensions, International Journal of Group Tensions, p. 151:
 * 2) * If you treat it purely as war and you start curtailing civil liberties of your own populace to meet their needs to fight with them, as you would, in the black days of World War II, then the terrorists will have won.
 * 3) 1986, Jeffrey K. Hadden, Anson D. Shupe, Prophetic Religions and Politics, p. 101:
 * 4) * If we stay home out of fear, the terrorists will have won.
 * 5) 1989, Susheela Bhan, Terrorism: an Annotated Bibliography, p. 116:
 * 6) * If governments overact and become oppressive, the terrorists will have won, for their theory is that repression will eventually lead to revolution.
 * 7) 2005, Judge John Coughenour, sentencing Ahmed Ressam to 22 years in prison:
 * 8) * Unfortunately, some believe that this threat renders our Constitution obsolete. This is a Constitution for which men and women have died and continue to die and which has made us a model among nations. If that view is allowed to prevail, the terrorists will have won.
 * 9) 2006, Judith Levine, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, p. 2.
 * 10) * Buy that flat-screen TV, our leaders commanded, or the terrorists will have won.
 * 11) 2009, Andrea Cohen-Kiener, Claiming Earth As Common Ground: The Ecological Crisis Through the Lens of Faith, p. 17.
 * 12) * If we have to wear sweaters and turn down our thermostat, the terrorists will have won.
 * 1) * Buy that flat-screen TV, our leaders commanded, or the terrorists will have won.
 * 2) 2009, Andrea Cohen-Kiener, Claiming Earth As Common Ground: The Ecological Crisis Through the Lens of Faith, p. 17.
 * 3) * If we have to wear sweaters and turn down our thermostat, the terrorists will have won.