"Terrorism" Defined? Re: [Vision2020] {Longish] letter with factsof interest

[lfalen]

Your definition may be true as far as a national law is concerned. However the dictionary definition is " The systematic use of terror as a means of coercion" It would not necessarily have to be directed toward a country.

Roger
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From: "Andreas Schou" ophite at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:49:17 -0700
To: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
Subject: Re: "Terrorism" Defined? Re: [Vision2020] {Longish] letter with factsof interest

> > Is someone crossing the Mexican/US border a "terrorist" if they smuggle
> > large quantities of illegal drugs and kill their competitors and some of
> > their "innocent" family members in the USA in gang warfare?
> 
> The answer is "no." No, they are not a terrorist; no, they are nothing
> like a terrorist; no, whaterver similarities their actions have to
> terrorism does not make them a terrorist. Terrorism has one specific
> meaning: acts of politicized destruction intended to intimidate a
> nation into changing its policy. Drug mules are not trying to do this.
> 
> Once we start defining hacking as "cyberterrorism" and drug mules as
> "narcoterrorism," the laws we have in place to fight actual
> blow-up-some-buildings terrorism can be applied however the government
> pleases. We allow some of these laws, like FISA, so that intelligence
> activities can be coordinated with law enforcement. This, as Frank
> Church taught us, is a very, very bad idea except in very limited
> circumstances.
> 
> -- ACS
> 
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