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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @07:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the oink-I-say dept.

Newsweek has this article on America's skewed definition of terrorism:

What is terrorism? According to the FBI, animal activists who stole two piglets from a farm were terrorists. As of now, Stephen Paddock, who killed 58 people at a country music concert in Las Vegas two weeks ago, has not been labeled a terrorist by the federal security organization.

In a viral story posted on The Intercept, journalist Glenn Greenwald details an account of federal agents investigating animal activists and scouring farm-animal sanctuaries to find two missing piglets that allegedly had been stolen from a farm. The FBI devoted such resources to finding these two piglets because their alleged theft and the capturing of undercover videos of the farm's conditions count as terrorism.

Why is the piglet theft classified as terrorism, but not the Las Vegas shooting? The distinction is rooted in the definition of the term. In spite of the emotions the word "terrorist" might elicit, the definition is not "mass killer" or "Muslim extremist" or "very bad person." The legal definition of terrorism is "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property in order to coerce or intimidate a government or the civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @06:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @06:08PM (#581253)

    I'm not a big Ann Coulter fan, but she may be onto something in this editorial,
        http://www.vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-las-vegas-massacre-the-story-is-coming-apart?content=lemonade%20stand.%20%C2%A0 [vdare.com]

    tl;dr
    She speculates that Paddock was playing poker slots to launder money. I don't know for sure, but she claims that the best machines return a pretty high percentage over the long term.

    Then she goes a bit off the deep end when guessing where all that cash came from.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @05:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @05:57AM (#581595)

    The silly-looking stuff at the end of the URL, starting with the question mark, is not vital to the URL.

    Next time, chop that off and see if the URL is still valid.
    It almost always is.

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