Discussion»Questions»Current Events and News» Was the suspect using a vehicle as a weapon to kill a woman during a Charlottesville VA. protest a terrorist or as the president says..
Tell me what the freaking difference is? What are terrorists? I don't know where you hail, but terror means that something terrifying is about to happen because of someone who is terrorizing. To scare someone that badly, to terrorize them? That is probably going to hurt them badly or kill them. So what do we call someone who deliberately smashes a 3 ton car into some unprotected bodies? A hurter?
Terrorist and murderer are NOT mutually exclusive.
Don't forget that the man is entitled to a fair trial by a jury of his peers, that presumption of innocence thing. And that may well be the case as I can't fathom any other reason for what happened; not guilty due to mental disease or defect. That would seem to be the ONLY possibility for an acquittal. But even at that he would probably be committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his natural life unless his psychiatric team said otherwise in the distant future.
And that's probably the best option unless they bump the charge up to 1st degree murder and figure a way to make that charge "stick". Because the maximum sentence for 2nd degree in Virginia is 40-years turning big rocks into smaller rocks. If he were to be charged, tried and convicted of 1st degree murder (or capital murder, although that would REALLY be a stretch) we have a nice, shiny large-bore needle and some interesting "potions" just waiting for him at Greensville Correctional. Or he can chose electric chair justice, regular or extra crispy.
This post was edited by Salt and Red Pepper at August 19, 2017 6:50 AM MDT
Considering Trump's personal history (father arrested for disorderly conduct following a KKK march in NYC in 1927; Trump and daddy Trump were sued by the justice department for race discrimination in the 1970's; Trump's response to the wrongly arrested and convicted "Central Park Five" in the 90's; etc) I don't think it's at all surprising that he refuses to call these vicious white terrorists exactly what they are. He would have to include himself in that mix.
