Still Free

Yeah, Mr. Smiley. Made it through the entire Trump presidency without being enslaved. Imagine that.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

How is this not Terrorism?

Man flies plane into government building because he was mad at said government. How is it not terrorism?
Explain that to me. Under law passed under the Bush administration and carried on under the Obama administration terrorism is defined as:

The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious or ideological.


Now it's not that I agree with the above definition but as it stands the flying of the plane into the IRS building was clearly a violent act, intended on instilling fear with a generally political/ideological goal (the IRS sucks).

The ONLY reason that I can see that this is not being called terrorism is because the person who committed this act was a white christian male. Lets keep it real. If the man was a US citizen named, Abdul and had a beard, there would be extensive talk about what terror cell he must have belonged to.