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We'll never know his ultimate motivation for sure but I suspect he would take great pleasure in... everynametaken Send a noteboard - 19/02/2010 12:47:22 AM
but would this be considered an act of terrorism?

I see a suicidal guy who decided to take out the IRS. His target certainly wasn't indicriminate (as in a night club or marketplace). His motivation for doing this wasn't his belief system.

It may just be my personal point of view, but I would consider that guy who shot the abortion doctor to be more of a terrorist than this guy. And that guy I consider more of a classic murderer than a terrorist.

*shrug*

~Jeordam


seeing employees in a government agency like the IRS terrorized at the thought that someone in the future might do this again and kill them (for their policies). Or, as you say, he could have just wanted revenge and decided to try and kill as many IRS employees as he could and didn't care about future consequences then I'd say he's probably not a terrorist. I guess we'll never know for sure. But, I think we can both agree that he IS a shithead who if he had lived would be worthy of the nation's finest death row.
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We'll never know his ultimate motivation for sure but I suspect he would take great pleasure in... everynametaken - 19/02/2010 12:47:22 AM 717 Views
He made his motivation chillingly clear. Joel - 19/02/2010 03:22:28 AM 633 Views
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i'm still not convinced moondog - 19/02/2010 03:12:03 PM 770 Views
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Then fucking go already, and stop trying to impose this dream society on the rest of us Cannoli - 19/02/2010 02:21:30 PM 811 Views
Preferably to the moon *NM* ßelals Girl - 20/02/2010 08:50:11 AM 310 Views
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are you real person? random thoughts - 22/02/2010 04:40:28 PM 671 Views
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As charming as ever I see. *NM* everynametaken - 20/02/2010 01:08:22 AM 284 Views
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Weak is all hes got. Dragonsoul - 20/02/2010 08:36:27 AM 622 Views
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In denial much? Dragonsoul - 21/02/2010 01:38:31 AM 766 Views
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And again, if you can refute anything on the site... Dragonsoul - 22/02/2010 02:13:00 AM 584 Views
Religionofpeace.com IS flawed, however... beckstcw - 22/02/2010 11:19:59 PM 624 Views
Is it? Legolas - 20/02/2010 10:26:16 PM 662 Views
Well... Dragonsoul - 20/02/2010 11:14:05 PM 691 Views
Exactly. Besides that I don't take his source as a source at all. everynametaken - 21/02/2010 12:21:15 AM 650 Views
Well that's quite selective. Dragonsoul - 21/02/2010 12:35:07 AM 653 Views
Whoopty-fucking-doo! everynametaken - 21/02/2010 12:42:28 AM 687 Views
I'm hateful? Dragonsoul - 21/02/2010 01:31:17 AM 673 Views
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We'll have to disagree there, then. Legolas - 23/02/2010 08:26:29 PM 570 Views
That's no one's fault but her own. Dragonsoul - 24/02/2010 12:23:56 AM 659 Views
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