Shadow Wrought's Journal: Christian Militia?

I'd think anyone whose plan was to kill an officer so they could ambush the funeral as an attack on the Government should properly be referred to as "Terrorist."

Plan vs. action

[Red Flayer]

Maybe... and although we don't know most of the facts, I sure hope that they were at least in the early stages of actual implementation of the plan.

Plans are not actions, and even though what they were planning is reprehensible, drawing up plans is very different from actually following through and executing them.

Hell, I'd be considered a terrorist too, because when I was a kid I drew up a plan for how to takeover the school using medieval weaponry, which I actually had (working trebuchet, crossbows, swor

You'd think

[peacefinder]

On the one hand, the current administration seems a bit more reserved in its use of that word. On the other, I doubt many news outlets would have calmly referred to it as a "Muslim Militia" had the group been claiming that religion.

From my Twitter feed today:

[Captain Splendid]

Q: What's the difference between terrorists and a militia?

A: Melanin.

That's true

[zogger]

I'd agree with that, really! (I'd also bet like other groups like that, they have an insider informant agent provocateur who egged them on..like mcveigh and nichols and the dotgov insider known as john doe two who has "disappeared", with mcveigh being a mind controlled zombie as well (ask PKD about that, he knows as much as I do about that subject I'd bet) and a lot of other references there. Like in the first 93 wtc attack, an agent inside the cell the *whole time*. Plus..I know they do it, from personal

moof

[Bill Dog]

Then I'd think you have a pretty loose definition of the word "terrorism". What that wacko group was trying to do was incite copy cat behavior. But a terrorist's goal is to pressure with violence a people to in turn pressure their leaders into changing a policy(s), not to get a people to become terrorists themselves. This militia wasn't planning on attacking civilians, but officials of the govt. and enforcers of policies that they had issue with. (Of course, attacking a police officer for this is like yelli