When is it terrorism? When is it a hate crime?

[Hank77]

Was the tweet part of the article?

I wouldn't classify this guy as mentally ill. Just a mean, abusive man getting revenge.

 

[Hammster]

I wouldn't classify this guy as mentally ill. Just a mean, abusive man getting revenge.

Those at the mental institution he escaped from a few years ago might disagree.

 

[Hank77]

Those at the mental institution he escaped from a few years ago might disagree.

This is what I remember, understood, and deducted from that info.
I believe he was there for an evaluation and probably anger management. That was after he beat his wife and injured her little child. After that he spent a year in military prison and then he was turned loose.
If that timeline is incorrect please correct me.

EDIT: That would have been his first wife, the ex.

 

[RDKirk]

This is what I remember, understood, and deducted from that info.
I believe he was there for an evaluation and probably anger management. That was after he beat his wife and injured her little child. After that he spent a year in military prison and then he was turned loose.
If that timeline is incorrect please correct me.

It's hard to determine from reporting.

It appears to have been either just before or just after his actual court-martial and before the sentencing hearing. Either way, it's a dramatic failure on the part of the Air Force that it did not seem to have changed the charges (if before the court-martial) or affected the sentencing (if after the court-martial).

This was just an abysmal failure on the military's part all around.

 

[Ana the Ist]

When is it terrorism? When is it a hate crime?
Not sure if this should be Kitchen Sink or News, but it relates to the attacks in New York and Texas and how they are defined.

It would seem that some socio-political motivation is the defining factor in a terrorist attack. The attack itself is seen as an attempt to further the goals or aims of some organization.

As such, the Texas attack doesn't really qualify to my knowledge.

 

[iluvatar5150]

I would argue that hate crimes are a subset of terrorism.

 

[RDKirk]

I would argue that hate crimes are a subset of terrorism.

Sure. I don't think there should be a distinction between them.