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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is everyone just now learning terrorism means political violence?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Then why doesnt the FBI consider people who blow up or set fire to abortion clinics terrorism?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/abortion-clinic-violence-terrorism

"While the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has maintained that these actions are not terrorism, this article suggests that there is a correspondence between incidents perpetrated between 1982 and 1987 and standards classifications of "limited political" or "subrevolutionary" terrorism. Perhaps the FBI has declined to accept the terrorism definition because of its preoccupation with international events which are seen in terms of administrative or jurisdictional definitions."

That's from 1988.

From 1977 to 1988, an epidemic of antiabortion violence took place in the United States, involving 110 cases of arson, firebombing, or bombing. The epidemic peaked in 1984, when there were 29 attacks. Nearly all sites (98%) were clinics that provided abortions. The FBI still says that those were not acts of terrorism.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1957842/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

well, you sure showed me what went on....40 years ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You're right. It's not like history is important or anything. Silly me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Not really proving the point you think you are.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

I mean, terrorism is just politically motivated violence.

This country was founded by terrorists.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They want to make Luigi an example. "Don't do what he did, he's being quickly processed with terrorism added to the charges. You don't wanna be a terrorist do you?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The complete lack of understanding someone who is pushed into a corner and has nothing to lose. Someone who expects the worst anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's not that what Dylan Roof did wasn't terrorism, it's that he wasn't in New York state. Same with that case involving Trump and property values, never would have been charged in Montana for that, everyone knows assessed value and real value are two different things.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

... and in other news: Insurance CEOs are some of the best human beings walking on this Earth! Just this morning, one of them gave $50 to a homeless person who lost everything paying a hospital bill. What a golden heart!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I misread that as golem heart.

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