Terrorism:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrorism
the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal
Terroristic Threat:
https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/terroristic-threat/
TERRORISTIC THREAT
(a) A person commits an offense if he threatens to commit any offense involving violence to any person or property with intent to:
cause a reaction of any type to his threat[s] by an official or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies;
place any person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury;
prevent or interrupt the occupation or use of a building; room; place of assembly; place to which the public has access; place of employment or occupation; aircraft, automobile, or other form of conveyance; or other public place;
cause impairment or interruption of public communications, public transportation, public water, gas, or power supply or other public service;
place the public or a substantial group of the public in fear of serious bodily injury; or
influence the conduct or activities of a branch or agency of the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state.
Domestic Terorism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism
The definition of homegrown terrorism includes what is normally considered domestic terrorism. Since the September 11 attacks in the United States, and U.S. military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the term has often been applied to violence that is perpetrated against people or property by their own citizens or permanent residents of a state under jurisdiction of that state in order to promote political, religious, or ideological objectives. Domestic terrorists have identical, or nearly so, means of militarily and ideologically carrying on their fight without necessarily having a centralized command structure regardless of whether the source of inspiration is domestic, foreign, or transnational.[2]
The Congressional Research Service report, American Jihadist Terrorism: Combatting a Complex Threat, describes homegrown terrorism as a “terrorist activity or plots perpetuated within the United States or abroad by American citizens, permanent legal residents, or visitors radicalized largely within the United States.”[3]
Under the 2001 USA Patriot Act, domestic terrorism is defined as "activities that (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the U.S. 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 U.S.
Now tonight's version of MyTake isn't about terrorism in itself. It is the mentality of people who perceive what is terrorismLimbaugh, Sean Hanity, and the rest of the goon squad on Fox News.
Example:
Three Kansas men from a militia cell called “the Crusaders” plotted to bomb a mosque and apartment complex home to Somali immigrants, the feds said.
Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49, and Patrick Stein, 47, were charged Friday with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, according to the Department of Justice's national security division. The Crusaders call Muslims "cockroaches," and they had discussed attacks brutal attacks on Muslims for months, federal prosecutors said.
FBI agents working on tips from an undercover informant said the three men planned to blow up four car bombs at the Garden City apartments. Allen, Wright and Stein hoped the attack on the 120-resident complex would “wake people up,” the feds said.
The arrests followed an eight-month investigation that took the agents “deep into a hidden culture of hatred and violence,” said acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall. “Many Kansans may find it as startling as I do that such things could happen here.”
ELIZABETH, N.J. – Authorities said they apprehended Ahmad Khan Rahami, the 28-year-old wanted in connection with weekend bombings in Manhattan and Seaside Park, N.J., after a shootout Monday with police officers.
The bloody incident capped off a frantic few days in this region and beyond, marked by the dual bombings, a stabbing rampage in Minnesota and then, Sunday night, the discovery of still more explosive devices at a train station here. Even as the widening probe into the bombings continued across this region, authorities sought to reassure residents that the the bombings and additional explosives appeared to be the work of a lone person rather than a larger network.
Now the difference here between this. One injuries incurred, and the other instance it was an incident which did not take place. Now why won't this be considered terrorism to some. Because the persons or persons were of Caucasian background.
We are conditioned to label people of a different color a terrorist act, but when its when someone Caucasian, its not a terrorist act. WHY???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence
Anti-abortion violence is violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion. Incidents of violence have included destruction of property, in the form of vandalism; crimes against people, including kidnapping, stalking, assault, attempted murder, and murder; and crimes affecting both people and property, including arson and bombings.
Anti-abortion extremists are considered a current domestic terrorist threat by the US Department of Justice. Most documented incidents have occurred in the United States, though they have also occurred in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. G. Davidson Smith of Canadian Security Intelligence Service defined anti-abortion violence as "single issue terrorism". A study of 1982–87 violence considered the incidents "limited political" or "subrevolutionary" terrorism.[1]
After killing three and wounding nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado on Friday, assailant Robert Lewis Dear reportedly told law enforcement, “no more baby parts”—an apparent reference to smear attacks from last summer that accused the women’s health care provider of profiting from the sale of fetal organs. So far, major news outlets have largely held off on labeling the shooting an ideologically motivated act of domestic terrorism, much to the chagrin of some progressives. It’s not the first time that a white, homegrown extremist has resisted that categorization: As the Huffington Post points out, a University of Illinois study found that the T-word is overwhelmingly applied to Muslims, even though Muslims constituted only about 6 percent of domestic terrorism suspects between 2008 and 2012. As academics Charles Kurzman and David Schanzer wrote in the New York Times opinion pages this past summer, “The main terrorist threat in the United States is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists.”
Now before you Fox News lovers and Trump Supporters get on your high horse, wave your flag and bible and start singing "God Bless America" take a good hard look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. It was decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton. The Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting women's health and protecting the potentiality of human life.[1] Arguing that these state interests became stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the third trimester of pregnancy.
Later, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the Court rejected Roe's trimester framework while affirming its central holding that a woman has a right to abortion until fetal viability.[2] The Roe decision defined "viable" as "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid."[3] Justices in Casey acknowledged that viability may occur at 23 or 24 weeks, or sometimes even earlier, in light of medical advances.[4]
In disallowing many state and federal restrictions on abortion in the United States,[5][6] Roe v. Wade prompted a national debate that continues today about issues including whether, and to what extent, abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, what methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication, and what the role should be of religious and moral views in the political sphere. Roe v. Wade reshaped national politics, dividing much of the United States into pro-choice and pro-life camps, while activating grassroots movements on both sides.
Now because Bush wanted to make you fall into line like the minions you are, he limited and changed it, with the rest of the Republican Party gaining control and closing abortion clinics, the RepibliCants have women by their lady parts (I will not stoop down to a Trump Republican Level)
But I digress....
What does a terrorist look like to you??
Him.. No he is a white guy, there has to be some sort of mistake...
Him...? No.... He blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City. he's not a terrorist, why is he a terrorist?
This Guy? No... He just burned down the Branch Davidian Complex....
Him?? No he's just a unibomber...
These fine young men? No.. They aren't terrorists.. They didn't massacre anyone in Columbine HS
Him? Yes.. Sept 11th....
Him?? If he wasn't a terrorist why did we go after him in World War II?
Conclusion:
Can you tell who is a terrorist based on someones looks?
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