12-14-2008, 07:37 PM
Gutenberg wrote:
Let me turn your diatribe on its head, freeradical: What is it with you people who think torching churches for political ends is an ordinary garden-variety crime? It's an act of domestic terrorism and needs to be treated as such.
Being very serious here, could you give me an example of something that has fallen into that category, and I mean in the U. S. for this particular purpose? (I can certainly think of recent examples in Iraq.) I can't recall an incident like that offhand, but I am becoming increasingly plagued by senior moments!
Plus, I thought that if something like what you describe was done purely with political motives in mind that it fell under the domestic terrorism statutes. I do think of statutes for hate crimes and statutes for terrorism as having some intrinsic differences, although both are certainly hateful.