The only question is will it continue, or will calmer heads prevail.
After a week of multiple unwarranted attacks on unarmed black men by police, two or more deranged criminals went on a killing spree and shot and killed 5 police men, wounding others. In the end, one of the criminals was blown up by a bomb that the police delivered via a robot. Another was arrested.
The question is, is it a terrorist attack? It was a horrendous mass shooting, a crime, a tragedy, might be considered an act of war, but it is in a gray area when it comes terrorism.
To be a terrorist attack, it requires three separate factors:
Merely having political goals is not enough. If I have political goals and hold a sit in, that doesn't make me a terrorist, or if neo-nazis steal every yard sign for a black politician, that doesn't make them terrorists. Even if some people are scared.
You have to actually try to kill or harm people, or at least threaten them.
Moreover you can't attack their their military. Attacking a US Navy Ship (USS Cole), or bombing the Pentagon is not a terrorist attack, as you are attacking combatants. That is called an Act of War, not an act of terrorism.
That is a very important detail, not an insignificant factor. We WANT our enemies to attack our armed combatants, rather than attacking our children and grandparents. Terrorists get treated with little respect, soldiers get treated with much greater respect because they play by the rules.
The question is, do policemen count as armed combatants? They are not soldiers, so calling attacking them an Act of War may be extreme. But this killing was also done in revenge for police killing multiple unarmed black men. Let's face it here, our police are armed. And not just with guns, the officers in Dallas used a drone to deliver a bomb to kill their opponent.
If this happened in England, with unarmed bobbies, that would be an act of terror.
But here on American soil where cops use drones to bomb you? Where it is in retaliation for police killing black man? That's an act of war. Specifically a Race War - one the criminals did not start.
It's wrong and we need to stop it here and now in it's tracks. We need real control of the police, real punishment for killing unarmed civilians, we can no longer look the other way, not with cameras catching the crimes and mistakes of police left and right.
We need real reform, so that police are judged by people that actually WANT to arrest police men, just as civilians are judged by prosecutors that actually want to arrest them.
As for the criminals that shot at police? They deserve to go to jail, but have their legal rights respected, because they did not attack school civilians.
Should the cops be protected? Yes. But let's not dishonor them by pretending they are victims. They are defenders shot down protecting us from revenge against their own failings.
After a week of multiple unwarranted attacks on unarmed black men by police, two or more deranged criminals went on a killing spree and shot and killed 5 police men, wounding others. In the end, one of the criminals was blown up by a bomb that the police delivered via a robot. Another was arrested.
The question is, is it a terrorist attack? It was a horrendous mass shooting, a crime, a tragedy, might be considered an act of war, but it is in a gray area when it comes terrorism.
To be a terrorist attack, it requires three separate factors:
- Attempting to kill or harm people
- that are not combatants
- for political goals.
Merely having political goals is not enough. If I have political goals and hold a sit in, that doesn't make me a terrorist, or if neo-nazis steal every yard sign for a black politician, that doesn't make them terrorists. Even if some people are scared.
You have to actually try to kill or harm people, or at least threaten them.
Moreover you can't attack their their military. Attacking a US Navy Ship (USS Cole), or bombing the Pentagon is not a terrorist attack, as you are attacking combatants. That is called an Act of War, not an act of terrorism.
That is a very important detail, not an insignificant factor. We WANT our enemies to attack our armed combatants, rather than attacking our children and grandparents. Terrorists get treated with little respect, soldiers get treated with much greater respect because they play by the rules.
The question is, do policemen count as armed combatants? They are not soldiers, so calling attacking them an Act of War may be extreme. But this killing was also done in revenge for police killing multiple unarmed black men. Let's face it here, our police are armed. And not just with guns, the officers in Dallas used a drone to deliver a bomb to kill their opponent.
If this happened in England, with unarmed bobbies, that would be an act of terror.
But here on American soil where cops use drones to bomb you? Where it is in retaliation for police killing black man? That's an act of war. Specifically a Race War - one the criminals did not start.
It's wrong and we need to stop it here and now in it's tracks. We need real control of the police, real punishment for killing unarmed civilians, we can no longer look the other way, not with cameras catching the crimes and mistakes of police left and right.
We need real reform, so that police are judged by people that actually WANT to arrest police men, just as civilians are judged by prosecutors that actually want to arrest them.
As for the criminals that shot at police? They deserve to go to jail, but have their legal rights respected, because they did not attack school civilians.
Should the cops be protected? Yes. But let's not dishonor them by pretending they are victims. They are defenders shot down protecting us from revenge against their own failings.
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