IRS Suicide Pilot Is Not a “Terrorist,” But Environmental Activists Are?

ALF and ELF are terrorists. They try to intimidate people that work for certain corporations. They should be shot.

They're a threat to America, INC

The legal definition of terrorism is in part defined by the motive of the actor. If a pilot crashes into a building on accident or to kill a specific person its not terrorism. If your motive for crashing into a building is to protest (i.e. influence) IRS policies or intimidate a civilian population, then it is terrorism. Domestic terrorism is defined in Chapter 18 of the United States Code in section 2331.

"(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002331----000-.html

Because Joe Stack was protesting IRS policies, it was an act of terrorism. In a way, that makes sense. Accidents won't make people feel "terror" in the same way that an intentional attack against our government or civilian population would.

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They both are since a terrorist isn't defined by their motives but by their methods.

false flag.

Flying planes into building= crazy people terrorist or not, mentally umbalanced
enviornmental activist= hero, want to save what man is so willing to destroy, some are a little extreme but nobody's died. Its called Protest protected under first Amendment to the Costitution, active protest included.

George Orwell had a name for this.
New Speak
double good good to you for bringing this up.
"War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is power and love is hate"
What do you expect form illiterates who thrive on ignoring history?

Both of them are, but ELF hardly gets any attention.

The related story tagged at the bottom is also interesting:

"Homeland Security Says Timothy McVeigh Isn’t a Terrorist, But Peace Activists Are"

This is what fighting “terrorism” in this country has become.

Timothy McVeigh is responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing, the deadliest act of terrorism in this country prior to 9/11, killing 168 people, but a Homeland Security official says he’s not a terrorist. Neither is Eric Rudolph, who killed two people and injured hundreds others in a bombing campaign against abortion and a “homosexual agenda.”

Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security Director James Powers said:

“Tim McVey [sic] is not a terrorist, just very angry with the U.S. government,” Powers said. “Whether a person is a terrorist or a criminal is irrelevant to me.”

You know whom he and the state police do consider terrorists? The Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, even though actions by those groups have been “relatively minor,” by their admission. Those groups have never injured anyone, let alone killed hundreds, but the Pennsylvania state police is offering free, yes free, “risk and vulnerability assessments” for corporations to help protect their profits from pesky activists. [Sounds kind of like that leaked State Department presentation, doesn't it?]

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated, “news of the weird” kind of incident. It’s systemic.

The Maryland State Police have admitted classifying 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists, including opponents of the war and the death penalty, and tracking them in state and federal “terrorism” databases. Cops infiltrated organizing meetings and rallies, and spied on political email lists, similar to the government infiltration of the RNC.

The groups targeted, including the Maryland Campaign to End the Death Penalty and the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, aren’t suspected of harming anyone, aren’t suspected of bombing anyone, aren’t even suspected of vandalizing property.

Their crime? They’re “fringe people,” says Thomas E. Hutchins, the former state police superintendent who authorized the operation.

“I don’t believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wish to disrupt the government,” he said.

Get this, one activist was described in police databases as having a “primary crime” of “terrorism-anti-government” and a “secondary crime” of “terrorism-anti-war protesters.” This wasn’t an isolated abuse of power, this is a coordinated campaign of harassment and intimidation.

The gloves are really starting to come off, folks. Years ago, government officials were using these same tactics, but under the pretext of going after illegal, underground groups like the Earth Liberation Front. Now, they are openly, brazenly, harassing and infiltrating nonviolent activist groups with no connection–not even an ideological connection–to saboteurs. Why? This “War on Terrorism,” above all else, is an ideological war.

In some ways, though, I think folks should take some pride in that. Considering what is mainstream government policy now, I’d much rather be in the camp of “fringe people.” As Billy Bragg said, “If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.”