Letters to the Editor
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ELF Arsons are still Terrorism
"There's a question of whether burning property is really the equivalent of flying a plane into a building and killing humans."
No, there isn't a question. Burning property seeks to influence government or civilians to act differently than they would otherwise act. It's an attack on innocent people (their property) as per the government.
It fits perfectly within the definition of terrorism by the US state department. You don't need to kill anyone. That little section about "broad" language is also misleading because terrorism has been defined that way for some time. I'm not sure what the problem is other than a relatively attractive 30 something mother who has been "wrongly convicted".
This is a pretty poor story with a somewhat misleading title.