Bundschuh: Terrorists or not?

[jammi]

...I assume this is linked to the Platform soap opera going on in the comm channel?

Well, terrorism doesn't have a concrete definition as the particulars vary by jurisdiction and statute. I guess we can run with a very simplified American and British standard for the sake of argument, which broadly boil down to this:

A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws,

B) appear to be intended—

(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping

The use or threat of one or more of the actions listed below, and where they are designed to influence the government, or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public. The use or threat must also be for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.

The specific actions included are:

• serious violence against a person;
  
• serious damage to property;
  
• endangering a person's life (other than that of the person committing the action);
  
• creating a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public; and
  
• action designed to seriously interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

The use or threat of action, as set out above, which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism regardless of whether or not the action is designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public or a section of the public.

In both the vanilla and Discovery continuity, the Bundschuh have engaged in assassinations and attacks against Rheinland state representatives / law enforcement for ideological reasons, and to advance political goals.

That obviously is not the same thing as launching indiscriminate attacks against civilians which the Bundschuh do not do, but their operations are clearly designed to coerce or intimidate the Rheinland state, or otherwise instigate a revolution that topples the state.

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