(September 18, 2016 at 3:14 pm)Aegon Wrote:(September 18, 2016 at 9:08 am)Nymphadora Wrote: 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.
"Terroristic threats" is not "terrorism". "Terrorism" is an international academic term that I defined in the post above, "terroristic threats" are just a way that state courts can impose criminal liability. They have two distinct purposes; one is used to try and study and explain the phenomena of violent resistance, while the other exists solely for legal purposes.
Fair enough. When I get home, I will see if PA has a law regarding terrorism, just using that word exclusively, but I'm not sure how much luck I'll have.
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