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On Destroying Tesla Property, and "Domestic Terrorism"

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I point out this article to make a generic point...

Americans, I believe, have gotten much to arbitrary, as to what they think
of as "domestic terrorism".

As I have done before, the mob that showed up at the Capital Building was
involved in illegal violence and even the killing of police officers. And yet,
almost all of these illegal rioters have been pardoned.
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The FBI has for a long time been warning that domestic terrorist groups
are a much greater danger to American democracy, than foreign terrorist
groups. HOWEVER, the American identification of "terrorist" with the
main 2 political parties, is a damaging re-definition of terrorism. When
Americans arbitrarily "politicize" violent acts of "protest" into the channels
of political preferences, THEN this undercuts the fair rule of law in Ameirca.
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The situation is more complicated with the younger, electronic screen
generations. They seem to buy into the (false) truism that ...

First you demonstrate.
Then, you get what you were demonstrating for.

This is NOT how real life works. Nor is it a sound definition of what
TRUTH is.

So far, we do not have anti-Tesla-anti-Musk partisans showing up at local
elections with semi-automatic assault rifles, in order to "ensure a fair election".
(This type of intimidating behavior, is legal in Arizona.)

Nor do we have strange anti-Musk groups following fictional diaries such as
some of the rioters at the Capital building on January 6th, followed. (This is
where you get the lynchers who brought with them a gibbet on which they
were intent on hanging politicians they disagreed with. This is part of their
fictional template for "revolution".)

Expect to see the emergence of unsubstantiated "Deep Car" conspiracy theories,
that posit great and sweeping conspiracies behind these several attacks on
Tesla products. That is what social media bubbles, promote.
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For Christians, lawless violence is lawless violence. We should not try to
sanititize it, along political, or racial, or cultural boundaries. We should not try to
justify it.

There are legal methods for pursuing perceived wrongs, in the American
system of law. These are the methods that Christians should pursue.