Stochastic Terrorism: Tha MAGABomber

[kickingandscreaming]

Stochastic Terrorism
1. The use of mass communication to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. 2. Remote-control murder by lone wolf.

In the political context, it is a form of mass incitement that will statistically result in probable violence, while providing those inciting the violence a veneer of legal deniability (“no one could have foreseen,” etc.).

As an example, when Donald Trump suggested that his violent supporters might want to employ ‘Second Amendment” remedies against Hillary Clinton, Trump was engaging in stochastic terrorism. Trump engages in this kind of tactic on a regular basis at his rallies and through his tweets. It is the most likely reason that several prominent Democrats have been systematically attacked with pipe bombs over the last few days. Direct incitement of his supporters to commit murder could and would carry stiff legal penalties (including imprisonment) for Trump, so indirect incitement—aka stochastic terrorism—is his favored method.

 
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/25/1807187/-DailyKos-member-s-term-stochastic-terrorism-enters-the-Mainstream-Lexicon-in-timely-fashion


Read more here:
http://stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com

[iolaire]

The conservatives on the right on are spawning racist domestic terrorists.

Yet the (hopefully) non terrorist supporting conservatives focus on “paid protesters,” “leftists mobs,” or god forgive some immigrants that might try to claim asylum or to cross the boarder illegally. 

[iolaire]

Stop Trying to Understand What Trump Says and Look at What His Followers Do

At the end of a week of hate crimes in America, it’s time to let go of trying to prove causation and instead assess the facts that are plainly in front of our eyes.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/squirrel-hill-shooting-trump-anti-semitism-america.html