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Is Briana Waters a terrorist?
In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
By Tracy Tullis [2008-03-27]

  • vermontague on what is terrorism

    Anyone who assists someone to set off an incendiary device (essentially a bomb) in a university office is indeed a terrorist

    So that's your definition of terrorism? "Setting off an incendiary device?"

    That's how you would like to see the single most heinous crime we can imagine — one that permits extrajudicial investigation and arrest, that warrants torture and even secret murder because of the extremity of the threat it apparently represents to our civilization — defined in our legal system?

    "Setting off an incendiary device?"

    Really?

    -- Amity
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    Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:22 AM
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