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by pasta67 34 days ago
Terrorism comes from word terror - it is use of violence to impose terrorist goals. Usually political. The fact that they have chosen as a target police is just return to classical terrorism that existed 100+ years ago. Targeting innocents by taking hostages, 911 or blowing up cooker are quite recent developments for terrorist activities. What was your definition for terrorism?
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My view is still relatively classical, significant unsanctioned violence used for political means. I would also be interested to see how other people are now defining this.