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brush

(61,033 posts)
1. Also a terrorist as by his action he injected fear and terror into...
Mon Dec 28, 2020, 04:18 PM
Dec 2020

into the populace with his violent act, which is the definition of terrorism.
















Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. By the federal definition, the action must be to effect a
Mon Dec 28, 2020, 04:40 PM
Dec 2020

desired change in societal or institutional behavior. Voters to holler for more police and vote Republican, oil companies to pay terrorists not to blow up their oil fields, parents to withdraw their children from public schools, etc.

That mass murderer in Las Vegan was a terrorist by NV law just because he murdered a lot of people, but not by federal law.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
7. People in Nashville will call for more police to surveil and monitor potential copycat...
Mon Dec 28, 2020, 04:48 PM
Dec 2020

and suspect bombers.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. All violence causes fear; fear in itself does not prove terrorist intent.
Mon Dec 28, 2020, 04:50 PM
Dec 2020

Violence for political (or other) purpose needs a different definition from simple mayhem.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. Lol, food okay. I didn't like the white flight types who fled
Mon Dec 28, 2020, 05:37 PM
Dec 2020

L.A. in the 1990s claiming they were going because everything was so NEW and nice. Ten years is the average economic life span of those "new" strip malls they admired so much, their wonderful new homes now look like they were built in the 90s, have 25 year old kitchens and need new roofs, and they learned long ago that they couldn't just mow the weeds that popped up in their low-maintenance gravel groundcover. Oh, and it's no more all white than L.A. was.

(P.S., I love the desert, views of the desert, and desert gardens.)

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