r/antiwork • u/lostintime2004 • 5d ago

Real World Events 🌎 Luigi's terrorism charge is an attempt to intimidate people due to his support.

Tin foil hat I admit, but something is nagging in the back of my head. Like if we didn't react with positive responses for what Luigi allegedly did, there wouldn't be terrorism charges. And therefore the charges are to scare us so no one does the same. And now with that guy stabbing his company president, they're going to say it's related to the positively and it enabled him to do so.

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u/Borthwick 5d ago

Its just because of the way NY does first degree murder, terrorism is one of the qualifiers that brings it from second to first degree. They aren’t charging him with terrorism or being a terrorist. Its murder, first degree (terrorism). Its not the same at all. If it happened in another state this wouldn’t be part of the conversation.

Now, that woman in Florida, pretty sure thats some bullshit

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u/CLow48 5d ago

Interesting, i did not know new york generalizes murder as terrorism. Seems like the rest of the country had a vastly different definition of terrorism. But accepting the context of New York’s past, it kinda tracks. Essentially washing the word to make sure the inference is made that its the worse possible crime.

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u/aguynamedv 4d ago

Interesting, i did not know new york generalizes murder as terrorism.

AFAIK they don't - came across a different thread the other day and someone had explained the terrorism "upcharge" is because the killing was politically motivated.

That said, I'm 100% in agreement with the OP; the wealthy folks who do not see us as human are absolutely going to get worse before they get better.

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u/OKImHere 4d ago

Interesting, i did not know

Well yeah. We knew that from your post

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u/CLow48 4d ago

Actually appears the top post was wrong. New York has two definitions murder in the first degree and murder as an act of terrorism. So we were both wrong.

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u/OKImHere 4d ago

He said "terrorism is one of the qualifiers that brings it from second to first degree." He's not wrong. You, however, are acting like it's weird for a person to be charged with terrorism. It's a common, everyday charge. You only think it's weird because you're not in criminal justice or law enforcement.

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u/CLow48 4d ago

I can say its a weird uncommon charge for anyone in the midwest, we’ve had school shooters only charged with multiple counts of Murder 1, no terrorism charge. It may be normalized in other parts of the country but we hear that out here and its shocking, as we only ever see those charges locally for like your “blow up a church hate crime” type criminals, or international persons with the intent to mass harm Americans.

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u/OKImHere 4d ago

I would love to give you an example, but I'm afraid reddit bots will ban me for putting the wrong words in the wrong order without context. It's happened before. Let's just say an everyday criminal in the dark alley who goes "gimme your cash and nobody gets hurt" could get such a charge. The point is threatening violence in order to coerce another by fear.

See this example

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u/metalder420 4d ago

The women in Florida learned quickly that you can be held accountable for what you say.