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Old 8th Sep 2019, 08:42
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Originally Posted by UltraFan
The guy is an idiot, not a terrorist. Would this even be on the news, let alone on FBI "joint terrorism task force", if his name was Joe Bob Whitaker? I wonder.
Let me disagree here. An idiot would have caused problems through incompetence or negligence. However, that guy was acting maliciously.
That makes him at least a criminal, and given the number of potentially affected people, a classification as a terrorist is not too far away.
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