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exstatic
03-25-2005, 11:05 AM
....if some fundamentalists used violence to abduct Terri Schiavo from the hospice? They would have to, in order to subdue the law enforcement in place. The legal system has spoken over and over on this case, so these people would be imposing their will on society using violent means.

Question.
travis2
03-25-2005, 11:06 AM
I would not condone such an action.

Whether I would call it "terrorism" is another story.

I would call it "wrong".

(Just as I also believe killing abortion doctors and blowing up abortion clinics is also wrong...even though I believe abortion to be murder)
MannyIsGod
03-25-2005, 11:09 AM
No.
Clandestino
03-25-2005, 11:13 AM
i don't think it would be a terrorist act either...
Samurai Jane
03-25-2005, 11:13 AM
I would not condone such an action.

Whether I would call it "terrorism" is another story.

I would call it "wrong".

(Just as I also believe killing abortion doctors and blowing up abortion clinics is also wrong...even though I believe abortion to be murder)

I agree...
samikeyp
03-25-2005, 11:18 AM
Per Dictionary.com

The definition of terrorism is "The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons."

I personally agree with Jane and Travis but by strict letter of definition, it could be interpreted as terrorism. If a group wanted to "protect" Terry by kidnapping her in order to try and coerce the people who are for keeping the tube out to reconsider based on their ideological belief that the tube should stay in and she should remain alive in that manner.
NeoConIV
03-25-2005, 02:43 PM
I would not condone such an action.

Whether I would call it "terrorism" is another story.

I would call it "wrong".

(Just as I also believe killing abortion doctors and blowing up abortion clinics is also wrong...even though I believe abortion to be murder)
Ditto also
Drachen
03-25-2005, 03:18 PM
Why? you planning something?
Ocotillo
03-25-2005, 04:34 PM
Isn't that something to consider? Likely this particular act would not be termed a "terrorist" act but if you are on the wrong side of the politics, in today's environment, acts or actors maybe classified terrorism or terrorist to be arrested and fall under the "new rules".
xcoriate
03-26-2005, 08:31 AM
Just as I also believe killing abortion doctors and blowing up abortion clinics is also wrong...even though I believe abortion to be murder

People consider that "right" thats fucked up
NeoConIV
03-26-2005, 09:41 AM
People consider that "right" thats fucked up
That people consider what "right" is fucked up? The millions of murdered unborn annually, or the 5 or 6 mentally unstable pro-life activists that murdered abortion "doctors"?

I think both are very fucked up. You?
Useruser666
03-26-2005, 03:01 PM
I think it qualifies as organized crime.
xcoriate
03-26-2005, 05:14 PM
That people consider what "right" is fucked up? The millions of murdered unborn annually, or the 5 or 6 mentally unstable pro-life activists that murdered abortion "doctors"?

I think both are very fucked up. You?

Perhaps, but not to that level people taking the law into there own hannds in that manor is crazy.
ChumpDumper
03-26-2005, 06:30 PM
Kidnapping is a federal crime, and the conspiracy to do so might get a RICO charge like User said.