More from the “Words that Instantly Villify” File

The president of a “free market” think tank has declared that negotiating with unions is the same thing as talking to terrorists.

Apparently, throwing around grenades means you that you are using “weapons of mass destruction“:

A 24-year-old convert to Islam has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for plotting to set off hand grenades in a crowded shopping mall during the Christmas season.

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He was arrested in 2006 on charges of scheming to use weapons of mass destruction at the Cherryvale Mall in the northern Illinois city of Rockford.

Via Bruce Schneier.

Now, with regards to the latter, clearly, this is terrorism.  Terrorism of a most individual level, but terrorism none-the-less.  But I’m curious if he was convicted of “scheming to use weapons of mass destruction” or something else.  Because, if he was, I’m sure it would come as news to the Pentagon that they are sending a soldiers out every day packing WMDs.

Posted in Law
Tags: War on Rationality, War on Terror