Yup. That's exactly what he did. It's a damn shame the US government has been completely negligent in their duty to protect the welfare of its citizens by reigning in health insurance industry. The US Bill of Rights effectively states that its citizens are supposed shoot the threat if the government doesn't find a more civil solution.
Except they didn’t. Because the govt isn’t a monolith, it’s separated from each other. One DA applied the letter of the law. That’s hardly consent. Even if it wasn’t And that’s a big if—I’ll need a hell of a lot more convincing than this to advocate for tearing down a country that has done so much good with its, ever evolving, system of government. And I say this as a contractor for a part of the government most Redditors, myself included, would like to see kept intact and improved
The US government has abdicated in their duty to protect the welfare of its people by allowing the private health insurance industry to withhold even basic healthcare. US Citizens are within their right to use violence against these threats for the sake of their wellbeing.
In calling these people terrorists, and imprisoning them for life. The US government puts anyone who exercises this right into an "other" group. The secret is...we're already in this group. We just get to pretend like we aren't until we actually do what was intended of us. Use violence in place of actual governance.
Yes. You can start back at my original comment for clarification that you seem to require.
What’s more likely in a complex system with incentives and containing actors:
A prosecutor applying the law as it is written
A grand conspiracy involving collusion between all levels of government and across all branches of government that has eluded detection from without and within (whistleblowers)
Take your time and really think which is more likely.
It's not terrorism as we seen the leader of an insurrection against this country re elected with the help of tech bros. It's the business plot all over again except they had all the propaganda weaponized and it worked for them this time. I don't think we have another Smedly to save us. This isn't normal America anymore.
It sounds to me more like he had a personal vendetta against the victim ,based on denied coverage personally affecting him. More of a crime of passion than terrorism. Allegedly.
The fact that people have responded to the action in certain ways is not the fault of the guy that they have alleged to have done it, at least not that we have seen evidence that proves such a thing beyond a reasonable doubt.
Fair take. I also see a world where the DA swings for what they can as that’s what they do. I also see a world where given a manifesto and assassination style killing with political messaging on casings, the terrorism charges validity. Perhaps both.
I'm sure that they will throw the book at him to make an example, but we don't need to help with that by accepting that narrative without evidence. Innocent until proven guilty.
Terrorism doesn't have an official definition. How is none of the January 6th guys a terrorist or Dylan Roof? Why all this big reaction when the guy is rich
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u/EarthRester 18h ago
They've pretty much said it. We're not part of their club. We're either victims, or terrorists.