patricia92243 (7,492 posts)
Dumb but sincere question. What criteria has to be met to make attacks a terrorist attack?
It can't be the number or people killed or maimed. Many, many other large numbers of people have been killed, and the murderer was not deemed a terrorist.
At least one of the recent Boston attackers was an American citizen and I understand he is to be charged as a terrorist. I believe Tim McVeigh was deemed a terrorist and he was American.
Is it the type of weapon used - such as a bomb?
There must be some consistent way an attack is determined a terrorist attack, but I cannot figure what it is.
I am not being a smarta** - I really don't understand and would like to know.
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10022730456She's right, that is a dumb question. I would say the answer is to use common sense, but when it comes to DUmmies they have none so that is why they have to ask these questions.
hlthe2b (47,102 posts)
2. For the RW, nothing more than showing it was NOT a conservative "Christian" involved.
But, seriously, I don't know that we as a country or government have come to terms with what is and isn't "terrorism", but there seems to be consensus that terrorism involves some form of "pre-planned" conspiracy enabled by one or more people or groups that are united in some cause or ideology.
OKC, meets the definition of domestic terrorism for that reason, given Terry Nichols involvement with McVeigh (and perhaps others).
For DUmmies terrorism is simply someone who exists who disagrees with them politically.
They claim the tea party is a bunch of terrorists, yet they haven't terrorized anyone.
Control-Z (7,932 posts)
3. I don't have an answer for you.
But I've thought that Dr. Tiller's murderer was a terrorist and should have been named as one. Every one of the many groups and individuals who have bombed abortion clinics, threatened and murdered abortion providers, and terrorized patients, should be called out for the terrorists they are.
The abortion doctors are terrorists.
