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You, sir, have obviously failed to memo that in this post-9/11-world, only brown people are terrorists. Here's a key, in case it gets confusing again: - Guy i
by wheels 17y ago
You, sir, have obviously failed to memo that in this post-9/11-world, only brown people are terrorists.
Here's a key, in case it gets confusing again:
- Guy in an airport with a Koran and an accent: terrorist.
- White software developer who flies a plane into buildings for ideological reasons: not terrorist.
- maukdaddy 17y agoWhile I agree with your point, I'd like to point out that McVeigh was white: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
- jordyhoyt 17y ago"post-9/11"
- javert 17y agoActually, this guy's goal was not to incite terror, hence not a terrorist. I'm not necessarily defending the way the government labels different crimes, though. AFAIK the Unibomber was pretty much like this guy.
- danieldon 17y agoHe's absolutely a terrorist according to 18 USC 2331: (5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. His explicitly stated goal was to affect the conduct of the government and coerce the civilian population via mass destruction.
- dmm 17y agoI don't see how me meant to coerce civilians.
- robotblake 17y agoExplained here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1135842 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1135842
- danieldon 17y ago"I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are."
- invisible 17y agoI wonder at which point "domestic terrorism" is instead considered "rebellion/revolt?" [1] I guess it's a hard concept given the media's decisive unanimity on the topic, but I do believe Great Britain probably felt similarly when we started killing the soldiers they sent over. I'm not confident to which side I am on: I think the government is mostly stupid, not draconian to the people at large. It's hard for me to believe they are innocent at times. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#Political_divisions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#Political_divisio...; sentence #2
- sethg 17y agoIf I worked for the IRS, my wife and I would not exactly be sleeping comfortably tonight. And I think it’s fair to assume that Mr. Stack intended to provoke that feeling in every IRS employee.
- cagey 17y ago_Brown_ Islamist soldier who kills 13 soldiers and wounds 30 at Fort Hood: _not_ a terrorist!