New Rule - Promoting Terrorism

[Minimalist]

Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Prefect capitals and military command centers, as well as munitions production centers. The special torpedoes used at Pearl Harbor were made at Nagasaki. One of the bombs went off directly over 5,000 troops lined up for morning parade. As for civilians, the Japanese War Minister had declared all adult Japanese to be part of the armed forces. The government also moved munitions production into the family homes to decentralize that work. We responded by decentralizing our bombing. 

The bombs did cause the War Minister, Gen. Anami, to go from the hardline faction in the Big Six to the surrender faction. This made the vote 3-3 and caused the cabinet to have to tell the Emperor they had no recommendation on how to proceed with the war. Hirohito made the call to surrender.

Who were the fire bombings aimed at?

What they were aimed at and what they hit are two different things.

What they were aimed at officially was supposed light industry scattered around the area.

But we knew what we were doing.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist...g-of-tokyo

Should they land within Japanese territory, they could only expect the very worst treatment by civilians, as the mission that night was going to entail the deaths of tens of thousands of those very same civilians. “You’re going to deliver the biggest firecracker the Japanese have ever seen,” said U.S. Gen. Curtis LeMay.

The cluster bombing of the downtown Tokyo suburb of Shitamachi had been approved only a few hours earlier. Shitamachi was composed of roughly 750,000 people living in cramped quarters in wooden-frame buildings. Setting ablaze this “paper city” was a kind of experiment in the effects of firebombing; it would also destroy the light industries, called “shadow factories,” that produced prefabricated war materials destined for Japanese aircraft factories

Had we lost the war LeMay would have been hung.

We promoted him.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We already knew what would happen with firebombing, the March, 1945, raid killed more people than either atomic bomb.

As for the civilians, you had to be a preteen or an elderly person to be a civilian in Japan at the time. The lawfully appointed government of Japan deemed all able-bodied Japanese to be part of the military.

Gen. Anami declared "100,000,000 dead in defense of Japan!" There were only ~70,000,000 Japanese at the time, so the rest would have to made up by the Allies. Anami would start that process by ordering that every Allied POW, man, woman or child, would be killed when the first Allied boot touched the Home Islands.

So if you making the Japanese out as victims here you need to do some research.

[Silver]

Since this is entirely preemptive, what would be an example of promoting terrorism?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Since this is entirely preemptive, what would be an example of promoting terrorism?

"If you want to end the Western threat to Islam contact ISIS at the following number to learn how to build a terrorist cell in your town!"

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Too subtle?

[Losty]

Like I said what classifies as "terrorism" is subjective. How would you define the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Seeing how they were primarily aimed at the civilian population in order to force the Japanese government to surrender, falls in line with the definition  of terrorism.

the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

“What constitutes support or promotion of known terrorist groups is up to staff discretion. ”
Glad I could clear that up for you

[Mystic]

Nelson Mandela was once listed as a Terrorist by US. Glad we can at least praise him today. *smiles*

[Shell B]

Since this is entirely preemptive, what would be an example of promoting terrorism?

There are plenty of examples online.

I understand the need for discussion about it, of course. I just really, really think it won't ever matter to any of you that this rule exists.

[The Grand Nudger]

Can we get a split?  Good convo going on here..for the history section.

[Shell B]

Report the post where it split. That's how you get us to talk about and split it.

[robvalue]

Do I have to promote it in every post, or once every so often?