(September 18, 2016 at 6:09 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Wrong, wrong and wrong.
Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political goals. The fact that someone blew up a bomb intentionally doesn't tell anything about their motives for doing so, so we cannot establish whether it was terrorism or not as of yet.
Not necessarily. It depends upon the laws and how they are written in the country one resides in. Terrorism, whether foreign or domestic, is the act of causing terror or harm to a person or persons.
For example, the Pennsylvania Consolidated Code Of Statutes, Title 18 subsection 2706 defines it in the following way:
§ 2706. Terroristic threats.
(a) Offense defined.--A person commits the crime of
terroristic threats if the person communicates, either directly
or indirectly, a threat to:
(1) commit any crime of violence with intent to
terrorize another;
(2) cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or
facility of public transportation; or
(3) otherwise cause serious public inconvenience, or
cause terror or serious public inconvenience with reckless
disregard of the risk of causing such terror or
inconvenience.
So you see, not all acts of terrorism are political in nature.
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