Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the state is going to target a Venezuelan gang that he said was notorious for brutal violence and murder and posed a threat to Texans’ safety.
So, gov. Abbott is trying to prove that he has no idea what terrorism is, huh?
Terrorism has a pretty solid definition. It’s not just an armed group that scares people; it’s violence that’s directed at uninvolved civilians as a proxy for the gov’t. It’s violence with an explicitly political motive. If you systematically murder the extended families of police officers in a town so that the cops back off enforcing the law and the gov’t collapses, that’s terrorism. If you’re killing rival gang members, that’s just a turf war.
These aren’t terrorists, they’re just ordinary criminals, and gov’ Abbott is just an ordinary idiot that’s trying to score political points.
So, gov. Abbott is trying to prove that he has no idea what terrorism is, huh?
Terrorism has a pretty solid definition. It’s not just an armed group that scares people; it’s violence that’s directed at uninvolved civilians as a proxy for the gov’t. It’s violence with an explicitly political motive. If you systematically murder the extended families of police officers in a town so that the cops back off enforcing the law and the gov’t collapses, that’s terrorism. If you’re killing rival gang members, that’s just a turf war.
These aren’t terrorists, they’re just ordinary criminals, and gov’ Abbott is just an ordinary idiot that’s trying to score political points.