If occupying a nature reserve while armed to the teeth with weaponry that, as we've seen, you are prepared to use against the federal authorities does not constitute doing violence or inciting fear of violence, then I don't know what does.
These people absolutely are terrorists, and may they be subjected to the same treatment that terrorists with darker skin are.
Way too sweeping. By your definition just about any crime involving guns could be described as terrorism.
If the crime involves armed opposition to a democratic Federal government, it's not exactly a huge leap of logic, is it?:h?:
However, the misuse of guns by US authorities below the Federal level might easily fall into the same definition, but of course they are operating in the knowledge that there are more legally-owned guns than people in the US, due to serial illogicalities presented as reasonable conclusions.
Some context from this side of the pond: killings of unarmed civilians by police in the US in December totaled higher than for the whole of the UK since the 1940s.
As far as I know, none of our radicals, criminals, semi-literate thugs or assorted numpties have as a result considered that armed occupation of a nature reserve to be a worthwhile strategy.... Our armed insurrectionists merely shoot protected raptors in pursuit of their ideology.:eek!:
MJB
According to today's New York Times, a total of 19 people have now been arrested in connection with the Malheur occupation (and with another incident concerning public lands in Nevada involving many of the same personnel). All these folks are likely to receive prison sentences. I was initially critical of the government's handing of the 2 incidents but am much less so now that all the major culprits appear to have been taken into custody and with minimal shedding of blood.
The US is quite, quite bonkers.
politics and birding....love it! i wonder if trump likes birds? LOL
The U.S. great country, great folks, but too many guns.
I long for the days when the majority of nutters obligingly wrote in green ink...:-C
MJB