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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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> Mayor LaToya Cantrell referred to it as a likely “terrorist attack,” and the FBI said in a news release that they are investigating it “as an act of terrorism.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/new-orleans-vehicle-crash-bourbon-street-crowd-casualties-shooting/
Killing a CEO in America is much worse than killing children or groups of civilians. I hate it here.
Apparently no rich people were harmed in New Orleans…
At this point the Oligarchy would call the 9/11 hijackers “Aviationally challenged “
Looks like now they are finally calling it terrorism:
“A driver behind the wheel of a pickup truck raced into a crowd of New Orleans revelers on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day, killing 10 people in what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism.
“An Islamic State group flag was recovered in the vehicle used by the attacker who killed at least 10 people early Wednesday in New Orleans, the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI says it is still investigating the attacker, identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, to determine “potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.”
Terrorism is America is now limited to acts that terrorize the .01%. The unwashed masses are immune to terrorism as they must live with it every day, so fuck em. We need to protect the job creators? amiright?
I think violence has to have ideology behind it for it to be considered terrorism. I’m not following this story, so idk if there is any ideology or just a psycho who wants to hurt people
The only difference legally between terrorism and murder is intent. Is this act of violence intended to bring about a policy change/ political change? If yes then terrorism, if no, then just person who did a no no.
*legal expertise of someone who watches funny law YouTube videos
“Terrorism” disrupts the status quo.
The status quo in the US is mass murder.
He’s been charged with terrorism. Quit with the rage bait.
I know it’s funny, but honestly ppl – what they say in press conferences does not mean the same thing as the charges eventually brought in court.
(Similar caveat for bringing charges vs. actually being convicted)
EDIT: Didn’t realize when this happened, as I only saw the headline. By the time I already got out of bed my dad said they’re calling it a terrorist attack now.
This woman was charged with terrorism just for mildly going off on her health insurance agent on the phone after a denied claim (she’s a sick, paying customer.) She doesn’t own a single weapon–but her bond is twice as high as this guy’s, at $100,000. She’s currently on house arrest and facing serious felony charges: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czenlg5d5rjo
It’s all about the $$$$$$$$!!!!! Plain and simple
They want to make terrorism nebulous, like a preference towards a particular color, rather than a legal definition.
This is a weird angle that was being pushed by foreign news outlets. The FBI absolutely is calling this an act of terrorism. This is just rage bait.
I mean. The FBI aren’t charging Luigi with terrorism either.
Being charged with something and a general descriptor are different things.
This is just engagement bait.
The tweet they are responding to was posted at [8:23am](https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1874446344275791957). In the summarized press conference, FBI assistant special agent in charge Alethea Duncan did qualify is as “not a terrorist event”. However, that was because they hadn’t confirmed if the suspected IEDs were real or the motives of the perpetrator yet. At [9:20am](https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1874460703547093386) Sky reported that the FBI was now investigating it as terrorist event (most likely because by then they had gotten enough information such as confirming the viability of the IEDs and found the ISIS flag).
Raquel, who made the ‘comeback’, did it at [10:20am](https://x.com/eternallyRaq/status/1874475777875734921), and mentions things that definitely weren’t confirmed by 8:23 such as the presence of bombs and more intended victims. So they had a full hour since the FBI changed their stance yet they chose to respond to that specific tweet.
They are investigating as terrorism but keep pushing false narratives to “prove a point”.
I hope everyone is just joking and in on it together, but I’m a bit concerned people genuinely think Luigi got charged with terrorism simply because the CEO was rich.
It’s especially funny given the online reaction praising Luigi, and calling for change from the other healthcare companies, or the law, in the wake of the killing.
Murder to change the law is terrorism. It doesn’t have to be a huge number of victims. It doesn’t have to scare people. It doesn’t have to be a rich person. Killing healthcare CEOs to get health insurance changed is terrorism.
Just like it’s terrorism to firebomb Planned Parenthood because someone wants abortion to stop.
We don’t want people killing others to try and force their political agenda – even if you agree with one of the agendas.
But there are so many stupid comments that I think this line of thinking is genuinely hopeless, and unfortunately these are the people who vote. That’s true terror.
Apparently in New York, just killing someone does not allow them to be charged with first-degree murder.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY7LHkSV/
I agree that the New Orleans killing is terrorism.
Just a bad apple 🤦♂️
America! 🤮🤮
Rich and people in power, write the definitions as they want and as many times they want. Because they know that public is too divided and will spend time infighting than oppose them.
I mean I don’t know about the bomb thing but to be terrorism it has to be about causing terror to gain something like “that’s what will happen if you keep doing X”. It’s not about how many people you kill like the tweet or whatever seems to say.
Terorism is not about severity, it’s about the intent
Both terrorists. Bam solved it.
They did change that statement not long after
The meaning of that word changed in 2001 when the people in charge realised they could use it to get public support for literally doing whatever they want to whoever they want.
It’s almost like the legal definition of terms varies from state to state.
New York = / = Louisiana
But you inflammatory regards already knew that.
No we’re not changing definitions. A terror attack is politically motivated. Until we know if this here was politically motivated or not, we can’t say if it was a terror attack
We’ve been changing definitions for a while now. What is racism?
Terrorism is defined as violence to achieve political or ideological aims. The ceo killing is textbook terrorism. I’m not saying that this bombing isn’t, but it being a bombing and it killing a dozen people doesn’t make it terrorism. That’s not changing definitions.
Must of found a maga hat on him.
I thought they found an ISIL flag and then wrapped it up.
Confirmed ISIS flag. Confirmed entered the U.S. through the southern border 2 days. Question is: who supplied him with the truck?
I am pretty sure the bomb planter is more terrifying than some guy popping off a CEO.
The FBI ASAC looks like the Crypt Keeper in this image.
That agent on the right of the pic lookin like even she’s not buying this shit.
I’m going to be so glad when this woke ass Biden administration is gone
Now? No. Always? Yes.
I have no idea if this particular incident is terrorism or not, but random violence is not necessarily terrorism. Terrorism is violence designed to achieve a political goal by scaring a target population into changing or giving concessions to the cause of the terrorist. School shooters who have no goal to change anything aren’t terrorists, whereas assassins who want to bring about change from their target population but only kill one person are.
American justice manifest
Calling Radical Islamic Terrorism what it is is hateful.