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To: Mad Dawg
I think the charge of 'terroristic act' is perfectly appropriate.

Here's why I disagree. If one-on-one violence, even if it inadvertently threatens the safety of others, is called terroristic, what shall we call acts which are assymetrical, one (or few) on many, and designed precisely to obstruct commerce and limit the exercise of freedoms by making people afraid?

Then lobby your state representatives to re-word the law. Terroristic threats have been a criminal offense since long before terrorism became a commonly-used word. It isn't "language inflation," an attempt to link mere criminal violence to international terrorism -- it's just a coincidental collision of language.

57 posted on 10/17/2006 10:00:15 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
Or it IS language unflation cause by a coincidental what you said ...

Thanks for the eddication. I did't know it was legal.

As for a new coinage, how about "Really really bad terrorism with knobs on" or, alternatively "Some KIND o' terr'ism I tell yew WHUT!"

Wow, I'm a new Blackstone, or blackwatch or whatever ....

62 posted on 10/17/2006 2:56:33 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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