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Why do you think that?
the definition of terroism is using violence or the threat of violence to get your way politically.
Absent evidence of political motive, I wouldn't call this terrorism.
The targets are state capitols, literally political buildings.
They are government buildings.
Which government, at the root of everything, is doing something based on political ideology. The people in charge of government change based on politics and those politics drive policies that the government enforces. Ergo, the government is political so threats against it and its entities are terroristic.
What actions were being taken by the government based on political ideology at the state capitols of Mississippi, Connecticut, Kentucky, Michigan, and Georgia (the email was sent to 23 states in total, but we can pretend it was just the states in this one article for now) that motivated this act of terrorism?
Anonymous friend, I don’t know because I don’t have access to any of that info. I don’t have the names of people, I don’t know every local law, I don’t know who sent this, I don’t know their political ideology.
What I do know? Government is run by politics and many decisions are made across political lines. The threat isn’t against the buildings, the threat is against the people inside. The building is just collateral and an easy way to do mass harm and cause fear to those making decisions.
i’m curious. what other motives do you see as possibilities?
It reminds me of this:
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1129919258/swatting-fake-school-shooter-calls-hoax-pattern
Bomb threats still cause terror.
Bomb incidents are almost never preceded by a threat.
I guess people can't be terrorized by threats then, you solved terrorism!
Too bad Bin Laden didn't know he could have terrorized the United States with some emails instead of killing all those people.
Oh, you don't know the difference between a threat and an action.
Bin Laden did make threats in addition to the actions. The terrorism was the threat of more death and destruction.
Go read a dictionary!
I can't. It happened again and I'm terrified.
https://apnews.com/article/state-capitol-threat-evacuation-lockdown-dfef5fbb98ec6572474807c260533b05
How can the country function with terrorists inside email inboxes? What's next? Will telemurderers replace telemarketers? Is nothing sacred?