That author is pretty clearly putting his thumb on the scale

Or, rather, selectively removing it.

"Other organizations seem to count many religiously or racially motivated crimes as terrorist offenses, an overcounting that I attempted to avoid."

Why is this "overcounting"? Even the FBI, which is extremely cautious about using the term, allows for domestic terrorism related to "extremist ideologies of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature." I'd love to see more details on his data, but would he classify, say, Dylann Roof as a terrorist? I don't see how you could avoid that conclusion. It's not a certainty yet that Conditt's killings are attached to some identifiable cause, but based on the guy's own writings, we certainly can't write it off.

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Posted: 03/22/2018 at 11:39AM

Mark Anthony Conditt -- HokieDan95 03/21/2018 12:44PM

He walked in to ship packages wearing gloves and the clerk was not the -- hooshouse 03/21/2018 1:02PM

Lol, you keep adding to it ** -- hoothat 03/21/2018 4:39PM

Actually I get Fed Ex and UPS deliveries every day at my retirement job, -- southdenverhoo 03/21/2018 3:16PM

Sophisticated bombs but almost no care to avoid discovery. Strange. ** -- KCHoo 03/21/2018 1:09PM

A lot of questions we need answered -- Fuzzy Dunlop 03/21/2018 12:58PM

Not a very good analogy ** -- BocaHoo91 03/21/2018 5:14PM

On the contrary, it's gotten even more apt since I posted it -- Fuzzy Dunlop 03/22/2018 09:26AM

It's a matter of scale for me -- BocaHoo91 03/22/2018 10:46AM

But in the U.S., it's clearly as big of a problem as radical Islam -- Fuzzy Dunlop 03/22/2018 10:59AM

Fortunately, neither is a big problem here, compared to the -- BocaHoo91 03/22/2018 11:23AM

That author is pretty clearly putting his thumb on the scale -- Fuzzy Dunlop 03/22/2018 11:39AM

I don't know whether he would classify Dylann Roof as a terrorist or not, -- BocaHoo91 03/22/2018 11:54AM

Will we invade a Christian nation in retaliation? ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/21/2018 2:18PM

We need to ban the immigration of christians immediately. ** -- THECZAR 03/22/2018 10:06AM

...according to Obama those do not exist ** -- Tuckahokie 03/21/2018 2:21PM

Don’t forget, was he a racist? ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 03/21/2018 2:09PM

That author is pretty clearly putting his thumb on the scale

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