Isn't 'domestic Terrorism' A Loaded Phrase Here?

[sandyRoe]

Whatever else it is, it's hardly that.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-animal-activists-charged-with-domestic-terrorism-after-allegedly-freeing-almost-6000-minks/ar-AAduSnZ

[mikey4444]

sandy...its hardly very helpful. But we have had our share of mink-releasing in Britain as well, and it's causing havoc with other wildlife.

Whatever we think about those daft twits that released mink into our environment, they are hardly on the same scale as the men that were responsible for the 7/7 outrage, or Timothy McVeigh in 1995.

[Mamyalynne]

If they have breach the terms of the act it seems a fair description.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Act

[Mamyalynne]

^ breached

[jno]

didn't Nigella accuse her former husband of "intimate terrorism"? The word has become used rather loosely, but I suppose that's the way all language goes.

[RATTER15]

What stupid nonsense. I understand the desire to release them though, delightful creatures, they are kept in a cold environment to thicken up the fur and then gassed to kill them.

I visited the mink farm in Devon in the (20 minutes from where I lived) where the original sightings of them stemmed from on the river Teign, kept in open wire cages to ensure their fur thickened up. Sick!! Releasing them however caused untold damage to the nearside rivers.

[Old_Geezer]

One could consider the scale to be greater given that normal terrorist activity affects folk once but a change in the environment is a permanent continuing change.

I can see it is an emotive used of words, but not clearly incorrect.