“Unlimited scope of people” does not require political statement.
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 day agoThose tend to be a personal grudge, not a political statement.
uis@lemm.ee 1 day ago
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 day agoThose tend to be a personal grudge, not a political statement.
“Unlimited scope of people” does not require political statement.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pretty sure you could agree he had a personal grudge as well
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Potentially, but I think that’s true of most terrorists.
wieson@feddit.org 1 day ago
I think that for terrorism you need the goal to instill terror in the population. Since it was so specifically targeted and only one victim, I don’t know how well it fits. Also, most of the population doesn’t feel terror, maybe he should be hit with satisfaction charges.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The definition of terrorism doesn’t say you need to terrify people at all.
Besides, there’s been a lot of acts that are generally agreed to be terrorist acts, that have targeted a very small group of people, such as a religious group, or even one specific individual. The IRA’s famous reply to Margaret Thatcher comes to mind.
It seems his goal was to terrify one small group of people, namely senior people in the healthcare industry, and I think that counts.