{"id":554,"date":"2004-01-11T04:37:08","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T09:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/terrorism-laws-and-intent\/"},"modified":"2004-01-11T04:37:08","modified_gmt":"2004-01-11T09:37:08","slug":"terrorism-laws-and-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/terrorism-laws-and-intent\/","title":{"rendered":"terrorism laws and intent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>if the law says terrorism is &#8220;the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy,  conduct or activities of the government \u2026 through intimidation or coercion&#8221;  (i believe this is from the virginia statute<sup>1<\/sup> &#8211; the one that was invoked in the trials of the &#8220;dc snipers&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>what actions of the state fall into this description?<\/p>\n<p>if the death penalty is justified a &#8220;deterrent,&#8221; does that make it a murder &#8220;intended to intimidate the civilian population&#8221; &#8211; and is the state then a terrorist organization?<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve often said that our judicial system is a barely-adequate and absolutely fallable mechanism for determining the facts of a crime, let alone the intent of the parties to that crime.  show me a perfect way to read the heart and mind of a criminal, and then i will consider supporting laws based on intent.<\/p>\n<p>if ashcroft can hack the law, so can i&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-46.4\">virginia code \u00a7 18.2-46.4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if the law says terrorism is &#8220;the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy, conduct or activities of the government \u2026 through intimidation or coercion&#8221; (i believe this is from the virginia statute1 &#8211; the one that was invoked in the trials of the &#8220;dc snipers&#8221;) what actions of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}