Letters to the Editor
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Terrorist acts = Criminal acts
The only purpose in proclaiming something to be a terrorist act instead of a criminal act is to inflame opinion. It doesn't matter who is doing the labeling, calling something terrorism is intended to increase the reaction against it. Terrorists call their actions terrorism because their motivation is to instill fear. Governments and prosecutions call actions terrorism because they want to instill fear as well, but where terrorists want to influence governments to change their actions or positions, governments want to use the same fear to increase control.
At their root, terrorist acts whether setting bombs or fires or flying planes into buildings are all criminal activities and should be treated as such. Terrorism is a motive, nothing more.