Terrorism? As in he spread fear among the population to further his political agenda? This is like the opposite of terrorism. More like joyism.
It's funny how they never charge a school shooter or any mass shooter with terrorism no matter how high the body count.
They didn't terrorize the right people tho, they targeted the poors, now a rich has been targeted, gun violence is a terrorist attack, untill the next mass shooting, then it's freedom to bear arms.
Yep. Where I live any climate action, or protest of any kind that blocks roads or “disrupts economic activity” can be charged as terror now lol.
We never even had a terror attack here during the GWOT era. Closest we got was an American style mass shooting in the 90s. But we basically got the patriot act without having a 9/11
The extent to which the gwot was a global exercise in crushing dissent and liquidating political opposition is I think not adequately discussed. The whole gwot era was used to massively ramp up state surveilance and political repression in nations around the world. Regimes used it as carte blanch to imprison or kill political enemies with DC's blessing.
I'm not up on my law. Is this terrorism charge a ploy to remove his right to trial by jury?
It's more like tacking hate crime charges onto a murder
Extra rough sentencing
It's worse than that. The pigs have a LOT more options for ways to punish you and investigate you when you're labeled a terrorist. You lose most of your civil liberties and right to privacy from the likes of the NSA.
Do US/NY terrorism charges also allow for more gagging of the media?
It's a NY state charge not fed tho so hopefully not too bad on that front
Counter-terrorism is also much more well-resourced so they could do a much more thorough investigation (alongside stripping the charged of their rights)
Jury nullification would be so good here
There has to be one. On a panel of 12, there has to be one
in a surprise twist, the panel is going to consist of peers to the victim this time around.
He's been charged with three murders, possibly because he was using a magical gun that can fire in to parralelle worlds.
