Why does the definition only include acts
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 7:05 am
There is one area of this bill that should have every American concerned. Laws are often a matter of definition. In addition to a number of specified criminal acts, “Federal terrorism offense” is also defined as “an offense that is calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion; or to retaliate against government conduct.”
That definition could include a very broad range of formerly constitutionally protected activities, that no doubt will be expanded upon once the judiciary begins molding the definition by establishing case law.
Against the government? What about acts of terrorism phone number list against the citizen?
Will papers such as this one become terrorist by definition because we are “calculated to influence the conduct of government? Do we intimidate those in government by exposing their conduct? Will publishing become an act of “retaliation?”
Some businesses and even government entities have recently prohibited employees from flying the U.S. flag because it is considered offensive to some. Will driving around with a hunting rifle in the gun rack of a pick-up become a terrorist act because some government worker feels “intimidated” by it? What will happen to our historical right to protest? Federal Terrorism, under this bill also caries up to a life sentence. What will be the cost of dissent? Such things will only be made worse as the wave of police-state enforced “security” sweeps across our nation.
That definition could include a very broad range of formerly constitutionally protected activities, that no doubt will be expanded upon once the judiciary begins molding the definition by establishing case law.
Against the government? What about acts of terrorism phone number list against the citizen?
Will papers such as this one become terrorist by definition because we are “calculated to influence the conduct of government? Do we intimidate those in government by exposing their conduct? Will publishing become an act of “retaliation?”
Some businesses and even government entities have recently prohibited employees from flying the U.S. flag because it is considered offensive to some. Will driving around with a hunting rifle in the gun rack of a pick-up become a terrorist act because some government worker feels “intimidated” by it? What will happen to our historical right to protest? Federal Terrorism, under this bill also caries up to a life sentence. What will be the cost of dissent? Such things will only be made worse as the wave of police-state enforced “security” sweeps across our nation.