{"id":9853,"date":"2015-06-21T04:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T04:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9853"},"modified":"2015-06-21T04:43:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T04:43:44","slug":"terrorism-occurred-in-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9853","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism occurred in Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I want to weigh in on the discussion of whether the Charleston, S.C., massacre was an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n

Here goes: I believe it qualifies.<\/p>\n

Dylann Roof is accused of murdering nine people after he spent an hour studying the Bible with them. He reached into a pocket, or something, pulled out a gun and started shooting.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/06\/the-killings-in-charleston-werent-terrorism-119233.html?hp=m1#.VYY_CVLbKt8<\/p>\n

The victims never saw it coming. An act of terror? By my definition of the word, yes.<\/p>\n

Yet we’re not calling it that. It’s a “hate crime.” Muslims who opened fire in Texas before they were killed were “terrorists.” A young white man in Charleston does the same thing and he’s called a “racist,” a “lunatic,” or a “mass murderer.”<\/p>\n

You want mass murder? The 9\/11 attacks certainly qualify. They, too, were carried out by terrorists.<\/p>\n

I am growing weary of these word games.<\/p>\n

The Charleston shooter was a terrorist, who committed a hate crime, who killed many people at once and thus, qualifies as a mass murderer.<\/p>\n

Why not lump all these descriptions together?<\/p>\n

We can stop playing semantic games with the language.<\/p>\n\n

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I want to weigh in on the discussion of whether the Charleston, S.C., massacre was an act of terrorism. Here goes: I believe it qualifies. Dylann Roof is accused of murdering nine people after he spent an hour studying the Bible with them. He reached into a pocket, or something, pulled out a gun and … Continue reading Terrorism occurred in Charleston<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[97,927,1490,2076,2947,3168,4562],"class_list":["post-9853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-911-attacks","tag-charleston-shooting","tag-dylann-roof","tag-hate-crimes","tag-mass-murder","tag-muslims","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}