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@Electro Robot
Burning down a building in this case is barely a crime. It's more of a call to attention. All over the world we watch, some of us participate, in protests and demonstrations that involve this kind of direct action. And it's no big deal. If there were more of this it could only be a good thing.
Um...yes, it's still a crime.
The issue is how much it can really be considered terrorism or not.
My take on it is that if this is being prosecuted and treated as genuine terrorism, then the threshhold for what constitutes "terrorism" is being applied in a horribly arbitrary way, as many acts of much worse nature for the same purpose of pushing an ideological and/or political point aren't treated as such.