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Sister of 9/11 Victim Urges Nonviolent Response to Boston Marathon Bombing

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Posted April 24, 2013

Interview with Terry Kay Rockefeller, documentary film producer and sister of 9/11 victim, conducted by Scott Harris

The violence and fear that gripped Boston with the bombing of the city’s annual marathon and the subsequent manhunt that tracked down the two suspects in the case, has given way to a familiar national debate on terrorism and its causes. One of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police on April 18, while his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured hiding in a boat in the Boston suburb of Watertown. Investigators who have questioned Dzhokhar in his hospital bed say a picture is emerging of the bomb plot planned by the older brother, recently steeped in radical Islam, without foreign links or assistance.

Predictably, some conservative politicians called for the bombing suspect to be designated as an enemy combatant while others like Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., called for "increased surveillance" of the Muslim community, declaring, “We can’t be bound by political correctness.” The Obama Justice Department has charged 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with using a weapon of mass destruction in the bomb explosion that killed three and wounded at least 176 last week – and will try him in U.S. federal court.

Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Boston resident Terry Kay Rockefeller, a documentary film producer who joined the group September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows soon after her sister, Laura, was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Here, she discusses her response to the recent marathon bombing in Boston and the difficult work of turning grief into action for peace and breaking the cycles of violence engendered by war and terrorism.

TERRY KAY ROCKEFELLER: When I first learned about the bombing, I just was heartbroken. I think as events evolved over the course of the week, it's been really, truly something that perhaps has never happened in history before. I mean, the evidence of the alleged perpetrators was produced terribly quickly, and the of course, we had the experience of waking up on (Friday) morning to find out there had been a violent car chase and shooting, and one of the suspects was dead, that the other one was still on the loose, and the notion to "shelter in place" - it was a new phrase.

But, I have to say, your know, I'm tremendously grateful for intelligent and swift police action. I'm also very grateful that the remaining suspect, who was captured after the daylong "sheltering in place," you know, is now going to be charged in federal court, and that there will be a trial that is not trying him as a foreign terrorist or "enemy combatant."

In some ways, things have happened so quickly in response to the marathon bombings where we don't have a proper legal response to the 9/11 attacks, which is a frustration on my part.

BETWEEN THE LINES: The group you're involved in, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows' mission is to promote a nonviolent response to terrorism. It's an incredibly difficult task with so much fear and hate engendered by terrorist attacks and violence. I'm wondering, as you look at this bombing incident in Boston, how do you hope the response is different than what we all experienced - as a nation and pretty much the world - after the 9/11 attacks? Of course, the scale is different, but we've hopefully learned some things since 9/11. What do you hope for?

TERRY KAY ROCKEFELLER: Well, let me start by saying that I am not an expert on all the options we have. But I do have some very heartfelt hopes. As the evidence unfolded about who the suspects in the bombing at the marathon are, and as we are learning more and more about the role that radical Islam may have played in these two brothers' motivations – and let me also say that I truly believe people are innocent until found guilty – but because of 9/11 and because of the history that we've lived through since 9/11, I think we need as individuals, as a nation, and as a world community to really try to understand how we can have, how we can establish a dialogue with radical Islam. I mean, I can't you Scott, that I have thought about, "Well, tomorow I'd like to do this," or "In six months, we should create this kind of institution. But I truly believe that radical Islam and that Muslims who carry out terrorist acts are not expressing the truth and the wisdom of their religion. On the other hand, I believe they are people who have an agenda, just as one had to establish a dialogue the the terrorists in Northern Ireland. The ways in which you break these cycles of violence is by actually inviting people to participate in some communal discussion, diplomacy, political systems and I hope this makes us think very hard about how to do that.

BETWEEN THE LINES: Terry, I'm curious about your response to the discussion we've had in our media since the Boston marathon bombings, including a comment by New York state Peter King, who recently said, "It's time to stop being so politically correct and recognize the real threat to the United States comes from Islamic terrorism," which means law enforcement must put a heightened focus on Muslim communities. He favors profiling Muslims in general, the entire community, for surveillance. How do you respond to these predictable and certainly historic, at this point, reactions to terrorist attacks?

TERRY KAY ROCKEFELLER: Well, first of all, I respectfully disagree with Peter King. I don't believe that you categorically label everyone who's a color or a religion or a gender or profiling is not the issue. And I think that that kind of response is exactly the way in which you heighten the resentment of people who are likely to become terrorists. I believe that in the long run, the security of not only Americans, but the security of people around the world, will be enhanced if we follow the rule of law. So, I try to motivate people to think of those issues. I try to speak out for that wherever I can. I try to motivate people to think about those issues.

Terry Kay Rockefeller is a member of the group September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Find more information on organizations advocating non-violent responses to terrorism by visiting peacefultomorrows.org/.