Look, I know nothing about this incident, I just happened across this thread in my feed. So I say without knowing any context, that no, attacking a single person doesn’t sound like the appropriate use of the word terrorism.
Assault, yes. Atempted murder, maybe. But for me terrorism needs to have a broad scope and target innocent people. If any assault was terrorism then all organized crime would be terrorism. Protests that devolve into violence would be terrorism. It weakens the word to use it like this.
Now if that group went down to the local coffee shop and started beating everyone and claiming it’s for their cause, terrorism. If they go on social media and call for everyone at home to grab their hammers and kill people indiscriminately in their name, terrorism.
Same with a pressure cooker bomb being called a WMD. It’s ridiculous to put a crappy improvised explosive in with nukes and chemical weapons. When you trump up charges is fucks witj everything, like we’re seeing here where a peaceful protestor is now being unlawfully detained.
So I don’t think the actions of a single individual acting on their own initiative during an action is sufficient to declare the whole group a terrorist organisation. The stated goals of the group do not include “injure or kill anyone who stands in our way, including police officers,” though the non-stated goals of that individual might.
None of what you describe is terrorism. The proscription is a disgrace, built upon a disgrace.
Surely deliberately causing injury with a political goal is terrorism?
Look, I know nothing about this incident, I just happened across this thread in my feed. So I say without knowing any context, that no, attacking a single person doesn’t sound like the appropriate use of the word terrorism.
Assault, yes. Atempted murder, maybe. But for me terrorism needs to have a broad scope and target innocent people. If any assault was terrorism then all organized crime would be terrorism. Protests that devolve into violence would be terrorism. It weakens the word to use it like this.
Now if that group went down to the local coffee shop and started beating everyone and claiming it’s for their cause, terrorism. If they go on social media and call for everyone at home to grab their hammers and kill people indiscriminately in their name, terrorism.
Same with a pressure cooker bomb being called a WMD. It’s ridiculous to put a crappy improvised explosive in with nukes and chemical weapons. When you trump up charges is fucks witj everything, like we’re seeing here where a peaceful protestor is now being unlawfully detained.
What? No. Look it up. Also, PA did not plan to 8njure any police officers
Looked it up. Turns out it is terrorism. At some point their intent changed. A sledgehammer doesn’t hit someone multiple times without intent.
So I don’t think the actions of a single individual acting on their own initiative during an action is sufficient to declare the whole group a terrorist organisation. The stated goals of the group do not include “injure or kill anyone who stands in our way, including police officers,” though the non-stated goals of that individual might.
Uk sending weapons to a genocidal state to kill innocent civilians becausw Israel is a political ally is terrorism
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