bendog
Diamond Member
Terrorism by it's nature requires an intent to coerce some group to change its behavior in regards to some political or cultural issue. Politicians tend toss out the term when convenient. Obama tried to be a bit more selective, but he is an intellectual elitist, for better or worse.
One of our "pro-Klan" posters (owl) noted Obama was slow to characterize the Ft. Hood shootings as terrorism. A single Muslim actor decided to take his personal firearm to shoot a bunch of fellow soldiers, apparently because he was unhappy we were militarily meddling in predominantly Muslim countries.
In Charlottesville, a similarly inclined mental midget decided to express his disagreement with people opposed to white supremicists and neo-nazi's claiming Bobby Lee's statue a symbol of their culture.
Both actions seem to me to be sort of pathetic impotent acts of rage, rather than being calculated to change behavior. The guy at Ft. Hood could not have thought he was going to change US policy, and the pissant in Charlottesville was enraged because the Klan-Nazi organized efforts at terrorism were ineffective, because of the counter-protests. And David Duke ain't stupid enough to resort openly to actual violence. Guy's like him parade around dressed like the Village People thinking they can intimidate people. A shit storm is about to hit the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. The gummit is now just looking for an excuse to bring the hurt.
Imo its more like "hate crimes" than real terrorism.
One of our "pro-Klan" posters (owl) noted Obama was slow to characterize the Ft. Hood shootings as terrorism. A single Muslim actor decided to take his personal firearm to shoot a bunch of fellow soldiers, apparently because he was unhappy we were militarily meddling in predominantly Muslim countries.
In Charlottesville, a similarly inclined mental midget decided to express his disagreement with people opposed to white supremicists and neo-nazi's claiming Bobby Lee's statue a symbol of their culture.
Both actions seem to me to be sort of pathetic impotent acts of rage, rather than being calculated to change behavior. The guy at Ft. Hood could not have thought he was going to change US policy, and the pissant in Charlottesville was enraged because the Klan-Nazi organized efforts at terrorism were ineffective, because of the counter-protests. And David Duke ain't stupid enough to resort openly to actual violence. Guy's like him parade around dressed like the Village People thinking they can intimidate people. A shit storm is about to hit the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. The gummit is now just looking for an excuse to bring the hurt.
Imo its more like "hate crimes" than real terrorism.