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To: Lane3 who wrote (1763)	7/18/2005 3:35:01 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541776

The act itself seems like protest to me. Every terrorist act the Weathermen committed they claimed was political protest. I find that those acts were both political protest, and terrorism. Not all terrorist acts will be political protest, but I think some will be.

To: Lane3 who wrote (1763)	7/18/2005 3:38:02 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541776

"In October 1969, the Weathermen organized their first event, called the "Days of Rage," in Chicago. The opening salvo in the Days of Rage came on the night of October 6, when they blew up a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. Although the October 8 rally failed to draw as many participants as they had anticipated, the estimated three hundred who did attend shocked police by leading a riot through Chicago's business district, smashing windows and cars. Six people were shot and seventy arrested. Two smaller violent conflicts with police followed the next two nights." So they blow up a statue that is symbolic, in order to further their political agenda, and protest the US agenda. Hard to argue that is not a political protest, albeit a violent one, and it is also clearly terrorism.