You think that woman who illegally investigated Joe The Plumbers is a domestic terrorist. You think convicted and imprisoned marijuana users are domestic terrorists. You think Joco from The Jury Talks Back is a domestic terrorist.

Or don’t you? Perhaps it would be better for discussion if you gave me a definition for domestic terrorist instead of just saying ‘yes he is one, yes he is one, yes he is one’.

I think, for example, that it’s obviously ad hoc that you have to be convicted to be a domestic terrorist.

Please define the term so I can see what you are actually accusing Liddy of being.

“Poor Johnny One-Note”

Liddy did that. So did Ayers.

Arrest, convict and jail.

End of story.

But in your world, I am only pixels on a screen and my persona could be completely fake and is totally irrelevant to my ideas. That’s the meaning behind the ad hominem / appeal to authority objections.

And you are not a teacher. I would eat my own head if you somehow demonstrated you were one. You are a very talented troll, and you don’t become that overnight. You cannot be a teacher given your posting habits / intelligence level (I think you’re very smart, but your comments are cleverly idiotic). You are almost certainly a bored university student between semesters.

And I again note that I legitimately think you could do so much more good screwing with the illiberal bastards on stormfront.org or a terrorist support thread. I was expecting you to pretend I was wrong about you, which you did, but I had a small hope you would admit you are a great troll and screw with us because you simply can’t stand the idiots on neo nazi sites, and screwing with people who are intelligent enough to put a lot of effort into refuting your hilarious comments is more stimulating.

But domestic terrorists try to kill people. Or at least use real violence or threats of violence. What Liddy did was awful, but if ‘terrorism’ is such a broad term as to include wiretaps and break-ins, then ‘terrorism’ has far too diluted a meaning and calling someone a terrorist is no longer like calling them the worst of the worst.

Surely you understand that Bill Ayers deserves death for what he did, and Liddy does not, that Bill Ayers’s did far, far worse than Liddy did. That Bill Ayers, Osama Bin Laden, John Wilkes booth, and Tim McVeigh all are in a certain category of awfulness that Liddy is not in.

I mean, saying Liddy isn’t as bad as Bill Ayers is not saying much, and it is a huge shame that Liddy is given any attention as a wise commentator (which I understand to be the reason you keep pointing out he’s a criminal), but he’s not a domestic terrorist, or your definition of domestic terrorist does not accurately convey the concept’s true awfulness.

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Their biased coverage of this criminal was, well, criminal.

Much Ado About Nothing? More like…

‘The Pelican, Brief.’