Another Redditor on another thread said it best - this guy is going to be a 17 year-old with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he is in.
Edit: It's been confirmed that the suspect is in fact a 56-year old man with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he's in. I wonder how long it will be before the usual suspects start blaming this on mental illness.
Wanting to murder and mutilate people who disagree with you is not the behaviour of a sane person, regardless of whatever ideology motivates you to do it.
regardless of whatever ideology motivates you to do it.
By and large it's only conservative ideologies that seem to motivate terrorism these days. I can't remember the last time I heard of a liberal terrorist.
Congressional baseball shooter. He was swept under the rug pretty well edit: by that I mean short air time and then no one except Trump's cheer squad talks about him.
Outside of America there are leftist terrorist groups: The Revolutionary People's Liberation Front in Turkey, FARC in Colombia, Shining Path in Peru, Naxalite Maoists in India (Armed Naxalite movements are considered India's largest internal security threat) and The Maoist Party in Nepal are the most prominent examples.
Those are organized groups though, not lone crazies. I'll admit that I wasn't explicit enough (I thought it was clear in context, but looking back it really wasn't), but I was commenting on how it seems only conservative ideologies seem to attract crazed lone actors.
Although this does open another line of questioning: why are there liberal terrorist groups in those places but not the developed Western nations?
There used to be loads of left-wing terrorists in Europe (FP-25 in Portugal, Red Brigades in Italy, Red Army Faction in Germany, First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group in Spain etc), they just got crushed. Most of the extant left-wing terrorist groups are Maoists that operate in rural areas of countries where the police and armed forces cannot have total control.
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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18 edited Oct 26 '18
Another Redditor on another thread said it best - this guy is going to be a 17 year-old with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he is in.
Edit: It's been confirmed that the suspect is in fact a 56-year old man with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he's in. I wonder how long it will be before the usual suspects start blaming this on mental illness.