https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(Yes, the same rules apply regardless of which flavor of politics an account is battling for. Actually those accounts resemble each other far more than they resemble anybody else—and we don't need any of them here. It destroys the curious conversation this place is supposed to exist for.)
Ah yes, but who will distinguish between terrorism and protest? The CHAZ/CHOP certainly had the hallmarks of an insurrection, too.
Edit: Ultimately, the decision/determination to charge someone with "terrorism" will be made by a District Attorney or some Attorneys General. These positions are all political in nature and the people holding these offices are under a great deal of pressure behind-the-scenes. THAT is where my trepidation comes from, as political adversary vs. political ally has a massive influence in who gets charged with what.
This nonsense has gone on long enough.
They never saw a mall they didn't want to burn. Nor a black church they didn't want to shoot up. When they do, and we all know they will, we can run the contact tracing and sweep up everyone from the foot soldier to the financier. We can even shine extremely bright lights on the orbiters and affiliates of these people to let them know we're watching and strangle their action avenues.
So in the end it won't matter. These people can't help themselves. All we need to do is watch and wait. The people in power will either accede to crushing these loonies, or we'll crush the loonies and the careers of the people in power in the process.
Domestic terrorism cannot be allowed to become commonplace. It's time to take things back in hand.
Yeah, I’m sure this will go over well.
We need more of this line of thinking in the US.
Watching malls burn had me mad, and then watching traitors carting electronic devices off from the Capitol building on their way over to Glover Park to hand them over to the Russians was the final straw. It's long past time extremists are excised from our society.
As it absolutely should be. The current administration should always be the current concern… (Until voting day, of course, when the next administration should be the current concern.)
Unless you're making the extreme point that democratic republics are intractable, because individual government employees will necessarily bend the rules to favor their own party, then you're not making any point at all.