I was thinking the same thing, too, but according to this article (and the FBI), the museum is considered a federal building.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us/12shoot.html

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It's a mystery to me, then.



Matt

Me, too. And it kind of freaks me out when any law is a 'mystery'.

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No, your definition of terrorism is more what we call a ''Coup d'Etat'' or the defintion of a plot to establish a Puppet state.


Terrorism, essentially, consists of continued and persistent methods of intimidation and violence, mostly directed to a group of individuals. Usually terrorist tactics involves political, social, religious or economical reasons/implications. For examples Ku-Klux-Klansmen bombed several civil rights offices or houses, and tried to intimidate civil rights workers and African-American rights activists with terror and violence. That's terrorism, there's the key word ''terror'' inside that term.

IMO it's no different than the "hate crime" bullshit. Who cares if you committed it for money, hate or ideology? Why is the first murder, the second a murder hate crime, and the third terrorism murder? Just treat it as murder, for fuck's sake!

Sure, that makes sense to me. I agree we should do away with all these pointless titles.

However, since the government currently feels a need to have them, I want to know why they seem to be used so randomly. Why were terrorism charges brought in one case, but not the other? The terrorism charges comes from shooting into an occupied building, something Von Brunn did, yet he didn't get any terrorism charges. Heck, he's being hit with hate crime charges when the person he killed wasn't even a part of the group he was targeting: Jews. How the fuck does that work?

This is all so retarded.

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"Terrorism" is the currently popular political tool used to herd the sheep. Of course they'll apply it subjectively.

Greetings and Felicitations,

The question I have is why does a "holocaust museum" qualify as a federal building.

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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UPDATE:

Von Brunn has evaded trial the natural way.

washingtonpost.com

It would have been nice to have seen him held accountable in court and sentencing, but at least it saved the taxpayer the cost of trial and a lengthy appeals process if the death penalty had been imposed (a likely candidate for it given the facts) that he would have surely cheated with natural death given his age, which he just did.

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Good riddance.

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Thanks for the update, Pete.

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