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To: GOPcapitalist
So burning a bridge is a terrorist activity? Funny, cause I thought they blew up busses and innocent people.

Maybe Merryman got tired of waiting for the bus?

102 posted on 11/07/2003 6:16:01 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Maybe Merryman got tired of waiting for the bus?

A terrorist is by definition one who inflicts destruction upon innocent others as a means of intimidating them into accepting a desired political outcome.

Merryman burned a bridge not for this reason but rather to prevent Massachussetts troops from travelling through the city of Baltimore where their presence was inciting mass rioting. Thus to call him a "terrorist" is incorrect.

107 posted on 11/07/2003 6:58:47 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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