For some reason in Britain's left wing media there appears to be a lot of hand-wringing going on with regards to the recent murder of an off-duty soldier in the streets of London. For some reason papers like the Guardian and their more wacky far-left cousins are very upset that there was a "rush" to label the attack as "terrorism" and that the label is somehow over-used.
The thing is that in Britain the legal definition of terrorism is "the use or threat of action where, the action involves serious violence against a person, serious damage to property, endangers a person’s life or creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public" with the aim of "influenc[ing] the government or... intimidat[ing] the public."
Below is a video of one of the attackers. A full transcript of what he said is below the link:
http://youtu.be/AkQHArjRlV0
"We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
I apologise that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."
Could you really define it in any other way?
The thing is that in Britain the legal definition of terrorism is "the use or threat of action where, the action involves serious violence against a person, serious damage to property, endangers a person’s life or creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public" with the aim of "influenc[ing] the government or... intimidat[ing] the public."
Below is a video of one of the attackers. A full transcript of what he said is below the link:
http://youtu.be/AkQHArjRlV0
"We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
I apologise that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."
Could you really define it in any other way?
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