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[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

So the pirates activities were not violent, or life-threatening, nor were they meant to coerce a civilian population to hand over money?

You libs crack me up...

The ignorance of some of the Conservatives here is amazing.

On your deluded understanding, bank robbers are terrorists because they want to coerce the teller to hand over money. A speeder is a terrorist because speeding is life-threatening. Someone who gets in a fight is a terrorist because their actions are violent.

The lack of rational and common sense within you conservatives is pathetic.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

The ignorance of some of the Conservatives here is amazing.

The lack of rational and common sense within you conservatives is pathetic.

Meanie

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by scottw

Meanie

haha...

[TheSpecialist]

By your definition not mine.

BTW I would not classify a bank robbery as terrorism because most are in and out, not holding the whole bank or customers for hours on end for a ransom.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

By your definition not mine.

BTW I would not classify a bank robbery as terrorism because most are in and out, not holding the whole bank or customers for hours on end for a ransom.

So a bank robbery is only terrorism if they take hostages? Either way they're still coercing a civilian into handing over money and inciting fear into people.

Where exactly do you draw the line of what terrorism is then?

In all aspects, terrorism is motivated to incite fear in the general population in the domestic territory of a country, disrupt government or create anarchy.

Piracy falls into none of the above. The pirates are purely for profit. They don't want to disrupt shipping, just inconvenience the companies enough so that they pay ransom. If they disrupt profit, then their income goes away.

[TheSpecialist]

The whole country was talking about the piracy episode, not a bank robbery in boston mass. Therefore I think the piracy episode affected the whole country.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

The whole country was talking about the piracy episode, not a bank robbery in boston mass. Therefore I think the piracy episode affected the whole country.

The whole country was talking about the murder of Caylee Anthony. Does that now make her murderer a terrorist?