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[Adorno]

...  stole a gas truck ... with the intention of blowing it up and killing everyone ... it was simply a deranged guy.

That's the exact description of terrorism.

 

[MrMundy]

Apparently the threat of a terrorist attack in this one wasn't the case, it was simply a deranged guy.

Terrorists are often known to be very rational and based people otherwise.

 

[crodio]

terrorism is done with a purpose

 

[Gasset]

No. It is not. Terrorism is the use of violence to create fear and diminish a State's confidence and capabilities with an ideological (political or religious) aim. That guy had no ambitions, aims, reasons to do that or objectives whatsoever other than to kill. He is a madman with a documented history of drug abuse and mental illnesses.

 

[Gasset]

Don't turn things to fit a narrative, like some people are already doing here xD

 

[MrMundy]

Spoiler: doublepost

 

[Gasset]

does it really matter that much, bugger off xD

 

[Cpt. Nemo]

Forum etiquette is Serious Business.

 

[rebelknight]

Great, another **** poster.

 

[Gasset]

I?

 

[MrMundy]

does it really matter that much, bugger off xD

Spoiler

 

[kurczak]

Today in Barcelona (near the beach, next to uni) while I was at class a Swedish thirty-year old something dude stole a gas truck into a traffic with the intention of blowing it up and killing everyone. Luckily the Catalan police shot him (non lethally). Apparently the threat of a terrorist attack in this one wasn't the case, it was simply a deranged guy. There has only been one wounded 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/barcelona-police-swedish-man-gas-truck-against-traffic-rammed-cars-spain/

So, is he Swedish the way that truck guy from Nice was French?

 

[omzdog]

Be Czech.
No can English good.

 

[kurczak]

Is corrected.

 

[Temuzu]

terrorism is done with a purpose

No. It is not. Terrorism is the use of violence to create fear and diminish a State's confidence and capabilities with an ideological (political or religious) aim.

So uh, is that not enough to be called a purpose?

 

[Farquaad]

""""""""""" Swedish """""""""""

 

[Gasset]

Calm down lynching mob, the guy is Swedish. Don't jump to conclusions. Joakim Robin Berggren is the name.

Spoiler

 

[Evelyn]

But that wouldn't fit the "muslims are terrorists" narrative, would it?

 

[Gasset]

I knew when I posted this story it was probably going to go this way...

Some people will do whatever they can to turn the story of a junkie with registered psychological problems attempting to do something incredibly threatening and stupid into a mass murdering jihadist on a killing spree in Barcelona to later have something to wank and complain about 

 

[Anarion]

That's why I wait for the terrorist's ethnicity to be disclosed before I decide whether to be smug or not.