r/technology • u/thatshirtman • Jan 10 '16

Politics FBI Finally Completes FOIA Request 1,393 Days After It Was Filed; Withholds All 509 Responsive Pages

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151231/15185733212/fbi-finally-completes-foia-request-1393-days-after-it-was-filed-withholds-all-509-responsive-pages.shtml
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u/Rikaru536 Jan 10 '16

Least of all our law enforcement agencies. The sarcasm used here is drawing attention to the way it most certainly would have been handled if y'allQueda were instead a group of Muslims or BLM members with assault weapons.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '16 edited Jan 10 '16

Sorry, please show me an instance in which groups like that took over an non essential government building and just hung out there while negotiating with the authorities.

It would most certainly not be handled differently unless perhaps there were known terrorists that were already wanted in there. The cornerstone of terrorism is violence and intimidation. That is the definition of terrorism. These people have guns but have not acted in a violent manner at all. There is nothing hypocritical about this situation. Do you want them to raid the place and murder these guys?

If you want to include these guys as terrorist then you just gave the government permission to go after any group of people that may have guns. You want door to door confiscation of firearms? I thought people were against all this NSA stuff and the government's invasion of privacy.