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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 118 points 4 days ago

By that definition the entire federal government are terrorists lol

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 85 points 4 days ago
[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 51 points 4 days ago

Park rangers are terrorists for telling me not to share my picnic baskets with the bears

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago

Arguing in court the legal distinction between a picnic basket and a pic-ee-nic basket

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

Fred was never the same after Yogi's ravishing rampage.

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago

Yeah to be accurate the definition should probably spell out that this violent action comes from agents operating outside of a majority-backed monopoly on violence. Terrorist vs freedom fighter n all that.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately implied by the "criminal" part of the definition

Violent, criminal acts

As the violence enacted by the state is supposedly supported by the laws they legislate, they get to skirt out of terrorism designation by being definitionally unable to commit "criminal" acts when they commit violent ones

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Oh yeah good point.

Damn, if only we had some sort of international body that could bring charges against states for their terroristic crimes.

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

They made sure to make sure that it doesn't apply to state actors. After 9/11, they felt they needed to come up with a definition of terrorism. They had a VERY hard time coming up with a definition that didn't apply to themselves.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

It gets worse, since it happened in the state of New York and this is its definition.

He OR SHE

Enbies stay winning

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