Ishmael wrote:
They legally fit terrorists!
Who knows what kind of security measures they could have set off - and who knows what behaviour they might have decided were rational?
Breaking into any sort of weapons facility is no "protest" or minor transgression!
I think, by that logic, just to "protest" - I may as well steal an F/A-18 and go on a tank hunting rampage - y'know, as an anti-war "protest".
Breaking into an armed facility is an aggresive act; not exactly anti-war by any realistic description.
Sorry mate but you really are not making a great deal of sense, non violent protest is not terrorism. Heck by your definition the Chaser boys should be in Guantanamo Bay by now. Non Australians 'The Chasers War On Everything' TV show. They nearly got themselves shot pretending to be Osama at the Pacific Leaders forum in Sydney
Academic Consensus Definition: "Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-) clandestine individual, group or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or political reasons, whereby - in contrast to assassination - the direct targets of violence are not the main targets. The immediate human victims of violence are generally chosen randomly (targets of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic targets) from a target population, and serve as message generators. Threat- and violence-based communication processes between terrorist (organization), (imperilled) victims, and main targets are used to manipulate the main target (audience(s)), turning it into a target of terror, a target of demands, or a target of attention, depending on whether intimidation, coercion, or propaganda is primarily sought"
Stealing tanks and F1-18s would be theft not terrorism
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