Re: Rage against spammers and telemarketers

[David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>]

> Now, expanding that into some special category of "Terrorist Threat" is 
another manner.

That's a point. 

I was interpreting it in the simple and probably naive sense of "intended 
to or tending to cause fear, terror, etc", rather than any more special 
term-of-art sense. 

Valdis also points out to me (offlist, not sure if copied in) that 
official definitions of "terrorism" tend to include things like the 
systematic causing of terror for ideological purposes, and there's no 
evidence that this guy was systematic (haha) or had any ideological 
purpose. 

I dunno what the legal definition of the term is in the jurisdiction that 
this particular story comes from, so I can't say whether or not I think 
it's a Bad Thing.  It's not immediately obvious to me that it must be bad; 
I can easily imagine definitions of "Terrorist Threat" that would both 
strike me as reasonable and cover the surface description of what this guy 
did.

So anyway there are lots of other things going on that I think point much 
more clearly to how messed up the world is, wrt Terrorism Panic or 
otherwise, than this particular case.  :)

DC

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