Letters to the Editor
Paul in NJ
Published Letters: 2
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Yes, she is a terrorist. Sheesh!
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's the bottom line: ELF and its minions can't get what they want by democratic means, so they use violence (arson) to scare people into doing what they want. Whether or not they actually harm people is irrelevant; it's terrorism.
To quote Ed Morrissey:
When its advocates turn to violence to intimidate people into adopting their positions, then they have crossed the line from free speech to terrorism, and it strikes at the heart of democracy. The government of a free people have the duty to ensure that law-of-the-jungle tactics get stopped and carry huge consequences to the people who use them, in order to deter others from adopting them.
Briana Waters stopped being an 'activist' when she traded in picket lines for arson conspiracies, and became precisely the kind of criminal for which these laws were written. If she didn't want to do 20 years in prison, she should have stuck with the picket signs.
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Yes, she is a terrorist. Sheesh!
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ilya sez:
Several letter writers have defined terrorism as trying to achieve political objectives through extra-legal means, i.e. commiting crimes to advance their socio-political cause. The flip side of that is the government trying to achive political objectives through the use of the criminal justice system.
They're not equivalent, since the criminal justice system is not, by definition, extra-legal. Moreover, the goal is to enforce laws. I suppose you could call that
Do we want impeding traffic or disorderly conduct misdemeanors to carry 20yr sentences because the government wants to slap a political label of "terrorism" on the defendants?
How do you feel about 'hate crimes,' Ilya? Do you think a person should get extra jail time because s/he injured or killed a person of color rather than a white person? Just curious.