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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Police charged Griest with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and related charges.

Wtf? Cops just slap terrorism charges on every chance they get, huh?

Don't get me wrong, the guy is a piece of shit, but terrorism? That's not what happened here and they know it!

[–] xor@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

first they made terrorism the biggest problem in the world, declared war on it, made tons of draconian laws against it... and then they changed what the word means.
btw, check out the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which makes it "terrorism" to work at a job with livestock and then secretly film the abuse other people do to them.
in some states, that is "legally" terrorism.
(its illegally, but good luck appealing that when you're in a guantanamo style blacksite somewhere, being force fed rectally)

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'd call it Orwellian, but that's more fucked up than anything Orwell ever imagined! 🤬

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