RE: Left-wing extremists terrorise customers at London restaurant
August 2, 2016 at 9:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2016 at 9:07 pm by CapnAwesome.)
(August 2, 2016 at 4:20 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(July 31, 2016 at 7:08 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: and who exactly did those guys terrorize or commit violence against? Oh yeah, no one. Throwing bugs in soup is more then any of them did. But for the record, neither of them are terrorists. I'd be extremely cautious about expanding the definition of terrorism beyond a very very strict definition. Especially considering that both presidential candidates want to shut down 'terrorist speech' and websites. Also calling it a federal building is only correct in a technical sense. It was an uninhabited station in the middle of nowhere. I'm more concerned about crickets in my soup then those guys. Which is to say, not at all.
I'd be a lot more worried by the guys with guns myself. Because the next time the building might be a lot more inhabited and they're not the type of people that'd be restrained in their actions even in the most calm of situations.
Well you are right that I'm more worried about right wing terror in the US then left wing terror. Vice made a pretty good documentary about the modern militia movement, which is about as large as it was pre-Oklahoma city bombing. So it is a larger concern, in the United States. Neither of them are a very big concern though. People always phrase it in terms of the US and western Europe, as though that encompasses the world. The largest security threat in India, according to the government, is the left wing group Naxalite, which commits pretty frequent terrorism. 13,000 people have died in their conflict, 7700 civilians. But you know, it's not in the US or Europe, so somehow it doesn't count or people aren't even aware of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite%E...o_violence
Back to the first world, or as I call it, the small privileged few. If I were attending a Trump rally twice though, once as a protestor and once as a supporter, I'd be more worried about getting punched in the face by a left-winger then right-winger. I wonder if Trump is elected if we won't see more left wing terror in the future, ala in the 1960s.
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