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okaawhatever

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10. How can you think this isn't terrorism?
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 02:14 PM
Jun 2013

The device was intended to be a truck-mounted radiation particle weapon that could be remotely controlled and capable of silently aiming a lethal beam of radioactivity at its human targets. The concept was that victims would eventually die from radiation sickness.

He referred to Muslims and enemies of the United States as "medical waste," according to court records

"Crawford also told the (source) that the target of his radiation emitting device would be the Muslim community," the complaint states. "Crawford described the device's capabilities as 'Hiroshima on a light switch' and that 'everything with respiration would be dead by the morning.'

Crawford ended the meeting by stating "how much sweeter could there be than a big stack of smelly bodies?"

gee, is every conspiracy to commit murder now "terrorism?" mike_c Jun 2013 #1
When you offer it to the KKK, yes nt geek tragedy Jun 2013 #2
I'm with you how can it be terrorism if you keep it a secret? Xipe Totec Jun 2013 #3
read this longer article and then comment OKNancy Jun 2013 #4
Klan or no, if you attack and nobody knows you attacked, who's going to be terrfied? Xipe Totec Jun 2013 #5
lots of people were KKK members 30, 40, 50 years ago.... mike_c Jun 2013 #6
The KKK was founded as a terrorist organization, and they were terrorists 40, 50 years ago geek tragedy Jun 2013 #8
I think you missed the point... mike_c Jun 2013 #11
How can you think this isn't terrorism? okaawhatever Jun 2013 #10
I am utterly sick of the constant drone of "terrorism, terrorism, terrorism...." mike_c Jun 2013 #13
It begs the question-- what then do you believe terrorism to be defined as? LanternWaste Jun 2013 #18
I suppose, like Potter Stewart's definition of pornography... mike_c Jun 2013 #19
On what specifically do you base the statement, "it has an element of being hard to define LanternWaste Jun 2013 #21
Thank you, Nancy. Raine1967 Jun 2013 #15
From the free dictionary: okaawhatever Jun 2013 #7
so we were terrorists in WW2? mike_c Jun 2013 #9
Hiroshima was an act of state terror. nt geek tragedy Jun 2013 #12
so was Dresden.... mike_c Jun 2013 #14
Agreed magellan Jun 2013 #16
this nut is the same as someone who would set a booby trap and should be charged by local police Sunlei Jun 2013 #17
They were going to X-Ray people to death? Dash87 Jun 2013 #20
They should have checked with the federal government surplus warehouse. DeSwiss Jun 2013 #22
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