Is a woman who beats her kids a terrorist?

[american_typeculture]

Let's say she does so on a regular basis. Physical violence to illicit a response. That's a terrorist, right? The children are terrified of her, right?

[NYVet]

1. Only if she does it while wearing a burka.

Just kidding.


What a joke of a question.

[jjungle]

2. point?

Is there a point to this somewhere that i'm missing?

[american_typeculture]

3. I guess you have missed al the posts trying to define "terrorism".

[The Vinyl Ripper]

5. The point is this..

There are a lot of actions explicitly committed to induce terror that we do not call "terrorism".

Was Tim McVeigh a "terrorist"?

Why was he never once called a terrorist in the media?

Could it be because he was whitebread and Christian?

Ever heard of the story below?

Do you think if the perpetrators were brown and Muslim that it would be spread all over the media for weeks?

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=378

Last spring, as journalists scrambled to report the latest headlines from the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the global war against terrorism, they missed a remarkable bit of news from much closer to home. The focus on foreign terrorism apparently distracted the media from what was happening in Noonday, Texas.

It would be more than six months before a federal raid there that turned up 800 grams of nearly pure sodium cyanide ready to be fashioned into a deadly bomb, a "huge arsenal of military-style weapons," and tantalizing suggestions of a terrorist plot concocted by members of the American radical right, received more than a passing mention.

The cyanide bomb was almost ready to go. If it had been used, authorities say it was powerful enough to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building in minutes — a weapon of mass destruction reminiscent of the Oklahoma City bombing.

[Kelly Rupert]

10. Timothy McVeigh was never once called a terrorist by the media?

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[slackmaster]

4. No, just a criminal

:shrug:

[Kelly Rupert]

6. No. Just a criminal. Terrorism is political. n/t

[Enrique]

7. enemy combatant maybe

:shrug:

[CT_Progressive]

8. No, she is a Republican.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
:D

[supernova]

9. terrorism has a political component

Terrorism is the systemic use of violence by people who feel locked out of the main political process, to make a political point.

An abusive mother is simply a violent bully and a criminal.