Terror is Our Way of Life
The continuing saga of Luigi Mangione, particularly the fact that NYC prosecutors have chosen to charge him under a statute of murder that specifies it as an act of terrorism. Discussions about the meaning of the words terrorism and terrorist aren't new to me. Dating back to the passage of the Patriot Act, the questions of how exactly terrorism might be legally defined, without leaving too much leeway for prosecutors to find inventive ways to charge activists and protesters under statutes nominally created to address terrorism, it's a discussion which had had vehement opinions, coming from a number of different perspectives. It's never quite sat right with me. There's the very broad, easy to access idea that one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter (something I think is operative in the way people are responding to Mangione being charged with a statute meant to address acts of terrorism), but there's more than that. I think, in part because o...
