The past few posts about the legal definitions of terrorism are interesting. However…
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The Broome County DA wasn’t making some legal argument about terrorism. He was speaking off-the-cuff. He showed a lack of sympathy for the victims, and had a very defensive attitude upon being questioned about why he didn’t flag the terrorist and prevent him from buying guns based on past incidents.
Of course, when he saw he was being lambasted in the press, the next day he pretended he was making some legal argument about domestic terrorism, insisting that’s what he meant in the first place. Yeah, right…
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The elephant is still in the room: when a white American commits mass murder with the specific intent to terrorize a certain population, to many people, it doesn’t count as terrorism.