How are you struggling to see terrorism doesn't have to cause widespread fear in the general population to be terrorism?
> the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
The nitpick was pretty much saying "you need to have a political aim to do terrorism!"
My rebuttal is, by calling things terrorism, the implication is there was some political tilt even if said tilt is unknown. That's the whole point of calling it terrorism.
Whether that was geopolitical, or anti-government, or a protest against the lack of action the national security risk that is our power grid, these reasons are all some form of political motivation.
With the level of sophistication shown, this rises above of trying to create fear for the sake of fear or mischief.
In fact, part of why the fear caused by this was somewhat limited was an initial effort to keep it secret which was later abandoned.
Do you really think a team of coordinated gunmen using advanced scouting techniques, cutting communications lines in an anticipation, showing intimate knowledge of a substation wouldn't have caused widespread fear in a community?
Most people wouldn't even care about the substations, just the idea of coordinated professional gunmen attacking targets would be scary enough... it certainly was for the government
> the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
The nitpick was pretty much saying "you need to have a political aim to do terrorism!"
My rebuttal is, by calling things terrorism, the implication is there was some political tilt even if said tilt is unknown. That's the whole point of calling it terrorism.
Whether that was geopolitical, or anti-government, or a protest against the lack of action the national security risk that is our power grid, these reasons are all some form of political motivation.
With the level of sophistication shown, this rises above of trying to create fear for the sake of fear or mischief.
In fact, part of why the fear caused by this was somewhat limited was an initial effort to keep it secret which was later abandoned.
Do you really think a team of coordinated gunmen using advanced scouting techniques, cutting communications lines in an anticipation, showing intimate knowledge of a substation wouldn't have caused widespread fear in a community?
Most people wouldn't even care about the substations, just the idea of coordinated professional gunmen attacking targets would be scary enough... it certainly was for the government