Terrorism

Terrorism as a phenomenon is essentially a very simple thing that can be dealt with if you answer the question “why.”

Something, as per law.

With terrorism the situation is even worse than with the definition of fascism. At the moment, at the level of laws, there is no single concept of what terrorism is as a systematized, organized illegal activity. The classification of crimes of a terrorist nature is made according to a set of characteristics defined for certain types of crimes. This problem exists not only at the level of local law, but also at the level of international sources of law. Individual crimes are defined in state laws and existing international conventions. Terrorist activity in the conventions means what is described in the law. Consequently, terrorist acts and terrorist activities of a different nature, which are essentially terrorist, but are not described in the laws - that is, there was no precedent for anyone being punished for this - are directly decriminalized by such anti-terrorism laws. The problem of legal regulation of anti-terrorism activities lies in one thing - investigative errors, due to which the entire corpus delicti of terrorist acts committed is not revealed in its entirety. As soon as the definition of terrorism is broken down into its component parts in laws, it becomes unrecognizable, and therefore crimes of a terrorist nature are not classified in their entirety. This loophole is used by both criminals and law enforcement officers. According to the Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, it is automatically decriminalized upon the outbreak of hostilities. And war crimes of a similar nature had already been decriminalized. The conclusion that follows directly from the text of this Convention is that war is an excuse for terrorist acts.

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

Mark Twain.

Current Recognition of Terrorism

A qualifying feature for all terrorist acts without exception is the statement of any specific demands by terrorists, the explicit communication of a terrorist act as entirely in the name of some ideological goal, or the assumption of responsibility for its commission by any terrorist organization.

Like fascism, the scale of terrorism and its true goals extend far beyond the limits of the concepts given in the law and individual sentences.

Not prohibited means allowed.

The Convention states, that terrorism is "An act which constitutes an offense within the scope of and as defined in one of the treaties listed in the annex, or any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act." For this reason, the definition given in the Convention, and replicated in a variety of by-laws and local laws of state parties, does not allow the defeat of terrorism. It is impossible to defeat by law what is not described by law.

The Edge

Hijacking and hijacking of airplanes, mass shootings, hostage-taking, house explosions, arson, explosions, poisonings, spreading viruses - all these crimes that are associated with terrorist activities are technically complex, requiring special training, infrastructure, special equipment, weapons, and financial resources. None of these crimes are carried out by a lone criminal. All crimes of this kind are classified as committed by organized criminal groups. Public ignorance about what terrorism is leads to misinterpretation of events and panic. A striking example of this is school Columbine. Obviously, a random kids cannot independently obtain a heavy lethal weapon, ammunition for it, learn to shoot from it, and have the skill to shoot with it at living people they know, including in the face at point-blank range. However, in terrorist organizations there is such a thing as children-soldiers who are trained in special centers. It is from these child soldiers that Columbine flowers grow.

The definition of terrorism.

Terrorism is a professionally organized criminal activity committed by an organized criminal community, usually of a ritual nature, associated with the use of weapons or public unrest, mass infliction of harm to health or mass killing of people and animals, or particularly large-scale property damage, or especially large-scale damage to the reputation of government officials and public figures, influential persons and organizations, undermining the authority of official government. The goal of terrorism is to achieve the communication, economic, political, social, and ideological goals of an organized criminal community.

Inconsistency.

What separates a terrorist act from any other crime, even a particularly serious one? First of all, this is the extensive nature of the harm caused, the massive number of victims, the seriousness of the damage, the great public outcry, and the impudence of the crime committed. If all these signs are present, but there is no direct message to the authorities from an organization recognized as terrorist, the crime will be erroneously classified as an accident, negligence, causing harm by negligence, and other insignificant articles from the point of view of the crime. In extreme cases, like with cases of the Columbine category, it’s like a mass murder. But there are several more distinctive features that characterize crimes falling under the category of terrorism, not defined in the law. The commission of any terrorist act is ritual in nature. By choosing the location of a terrorist act, time, circumstances, method of committing a terrorist act, the composition of a group of terrorists, their names, and other circumstances, criminals communicate the true goals of committing a terrorist act and the meta-message that they want to convey to the recipient. A fatal mistake in classifying terrorist crimes is to interpret them as conveying messages only to state leaders as a method of blackmail to achieve some criminal goals. The recipient of the meta-message terrorists convey through a terrorist attack is a much broader group of people than one might assume. The main thing that is a distinctive feature of any terrorist crime is the discrepancy between the complexity and degree of preparation of the terrorist act, as well as the mandatory ritual staging of the terrorist act itself, with the stated demands of the terrorists, or the absence in principle of any stated requirements. Thus, to differentiate a terrorist crime from any other type of homicide - of which, oddly enough, if we single out all the crimes of a terrorist nature and the crimes of the 3rd Reich, there are not so many left - there is a completely different specific set of signs.

Mass murder is always a professional crime.

Features of Terrorist Crimes

Weapon. Damage. Ritual. Disruption.

Ritual Nature.

Massive Damage.

Impairment on State Government Authority.

Requires massive infrastructure and back-end to run.

Inconsistency of crime scale, perpetrator's personality.

Expensive, difficult and complicated to commit.

Requires lengthy, complex preparation.

Weapon is used.

The 404 Error.

What is the problem with the crime described in the laws and classified as “terrorism”? It is necessary to remove only 2 qualifying criteria, and the problem in defining what terrorism is will disappear. The first is the misconception that a terrorist act necessarily involves the public making of some claim or assumption of responsibility for the terrorist act by some criminal organization. The second is death or harm to ordinary civilians. By removing these two signs, and analyzing all major, ridiculous, or high-profile crimes for the presence of key features of terrorist crimes, the full picture will be restored. And with it it will become much easier to identify the customer, organizer, and all performers of this activity.

Darts in the dark can't solve the problem of terrorism.

"Often we are inclined to interpret some word that we do not understand as being slurred, incorrectly used, or poorly and ineptly written, whereas in reality it was said completely clearly or written correctly, but had a completely different meaning, understandable only to the criminal. An experienced criminal almost never speaks or writes unclearly or incorrectly without purpose. This seems unclear or incorrect only to a person uninitiated into the secrets of criminals."

Hans Gross.

Why Terrorism?

Universal
Communication Tool

Terrorist acts are indeed a way of communication. The key to understanding the meta-message that a terrorist act carries is to recognize the fact that terrorist attacks are a universal way for organized crime groups to communicate with each other. This is their main purpose. Everything else is side effects, which benefits the criminals as well. This communication mechanism is the safest, since it will only be understood by those to whom the message is addressed. For the population, the terrorist attack will again become another nightmare, which will once again undermine trust in the official legitimate government. By the way, it is for this reason that explosives are often used in terrorist attacks. The essence of such terrorist attacks is to undermine trust in government and cause a social explosion. In principle, everything is very straightforward, since the meta-message with images used in a terrorist attack should exclude double interpretation.

Difficult to prove

Cannot be intercepted

Meticulously targeted

Beneficial side effects

The History of Criminal Language

The underworld speaks a completely different language, which is understood only by those who are part of it from one side or the other. This language often consists of many words from ordinary vocabulary, but they have a different meaning. To an outsider, communicating in this language is gibberish. One way to communicate in criminal language is to send a marked text with a key. Markings highlight words or letters that should be read or skipped. The habit of using criminal language is so ingrained in the personality of the criminal that he uses it in everyday life without even realizing that the language clearly defines his place in society. For example, advertising for the company VimpelCom and the design of its offices, in which the texts are designed in the same way as the little ones in prisons are designed - the necessary words are highlighted in color or underlined.

Black List

In the list below you will find a list of crimes that we classify as terrorist acts according to the criteria described above. Also included in this list are organizations whose activities contain signs on the basis of which they can be classified as terrorist. This list is the private opinion of BOOST, and does not reflect in its entirety the issues of terrorism, a complete list of crimes that should be classified as terrorist acts, and a complete list of organizations that, by the nature of their activities, are terrorist.

List of cases

Fire in Lame Horse club.
Fire in Winter Cherry shopping center.
Fire in Samara General Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Major Evsukov's mass shooting.
Kazan aka Columbine mass shooting.
Poisoning of Skripals.
Murder of Navalny.
Poisoning of Lugovoy and Kovtun.
Poisoning of Yuschenko.
Murder of Magnitsky, Gasanov, Korobeynikov, Kurochkin.
Nord-Ost terroristic act and mass poisoning.
The death of the nuclear submarine Kursk and 118.
The murder of Evgeny Chichvarkin's mother.
Plane crash and murder of Nataliya Filyova (S7).
Helicopter crash and murder of Peter Kellner (PPF).
Plane crash in Petrozavodsk (2011), murder of Dmitry Maslov (Investlesprom) and 47.
Plane crash in Vnukovo, murder of Christophe Marjorie (TOTAL, CEO).
Plane crashes: Sibir (S7), October 4th, 2001, ghost flight 370 Malaysia Airlines, MH17 plane crash in 2014.
Plane crash: 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash.
Plane crashes: Sibir (S7), August 24th, 2004 in Tula, and Volga Aviaexpress in Volgograd, August 24th, 2004.
Plane crash: Sibir (S7), July 9th, 2009, Irkutsk.
Plane crush: 10.04.2010, Russia, Smolensk.
Plane crashes: 4 planes on September 11th, 2001, in New York.
COVID-19: pandemic, virus distribution, medical help, vaccination.
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Rose of World (Roza Mira).
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: LifeSpring (TCI, Vladimir Shubin, and their affiliates).
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: LifeSpring (Moscow Training Center, and its affiliates).
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Ontopsychology of Antonio Menegetti.
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Design ontology.
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Natalya Pravdina.
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Shri Shri Ravi Shankar.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: at-Takfīr wa-l-Hiǧra, التكفير والهجرة‎ (prohibited in Russia).Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Greenpeace.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Transparency International.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Dynasty fund.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Enlightener fund.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Rusfond.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Podari Zhizn.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Linia Zhizni (Life Line).Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Pomogi.Org.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: World Vita.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Vera Fund.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Mayor of Moscow, AFK Sistema, Alfa-Group, USM, Ministry of Social Development and Healthcare.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Scientologists.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Sinton (Kozlov and its affiliates).Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Elena Blinovskaya.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Holotropic Breathing.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Business Youth (Biznes Molodost).Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: De Sheli.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Beauty Club (Klub Krasoti).Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Finist (Fenix) financial institute.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Chistopolskiy Jamaat.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: the cult of goddess Kali.Z
Destructive Sects and terroristic organizations: Maharishi.Z
Terroristic activity and war: Ukraine crisis 2014 - 2022.Z
Terroristic activity and war: war in Georgia 2008.Z
Terroristic activity and war: "velvet" revolution in Armenia.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Down syndrome funds financing.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Foundations that finance cerebral palsy.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Foundations financing LGBT orientation among children and adolescents.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Foundations financing cancer illness.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Foundations financing diabetes.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Mother & Kid Group of companies, Mayor of Moscow, AFK Sistema, Alfa-Group, Ministry of Social Development and Healthcare.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: RDIF, Mayor of Moscow, AFK Sistema, Alfa-Group, Ministry of Social Development and Healthcare.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Transparency International.Z
Destructive Sects, terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Qiwi Group, The Dzogchen Community Rinchenling, The Institute Shang Shung.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: the 9/11 terroristic act.Z
Murder of Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, Henri Paul.Z
Murder of Lee Yoon-Hyung, daughter of Lee Kun-hee.Z
Murder of Romanov's family: the mass shooting of Nikolay and Alexandra Romanovy and their kids.Z
The murder of Sophia of Saxe-Weimar (Sophia Augustine Ida Caroline Pavlina Agnes Elizabeth Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar).Z
The murder of Tim Bergling.Z
The murder of Alexander McQueen.Z
The murder of Karl Lagerfeld.Z
The murder of club-27.Z
The murder of Dolores O'Riordan.Z
The murder of Amy Winehouse.Z
The murder of Freddy Mercury.Z
The murder of John Lennon.Z
The murder of Michael Jackson.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Red Terror in Russia and related mass murders.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism: Revolution of 1917th in Russia and Ukraine.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism, transnational crime: WWII, and non-compliance with the post-war international agreements.Z
Terroristic organizations, financing of racial or ethnic hate terrorism, transnational crime: illegal creation and elimination of the USSR, military punishment of Russia to execute invalid illegal international agreements, illegal disposal, and capture of the territories of the Russian Empire.Z
Terrorist acts: Boston Marathon bombing.Z
Terrorist acts: Pushkinskaya Ploschad subway station bombing (2001).Z
Terrorist acts: Avtozavodskaya subway station bombing (2004), Rizhskaya subway station bombing (2004).Z
Terrorist acts: Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations bombing (2010).Z
Terrorist act: bombing on Krasnozavodsk plant, Mechel plant in Moscow region (2010), peat fires in 2010.Z
Terrorist acts: Moscow subway, non-investigated cases of 1996, 1998.Z
Terrorist acts: Explosions of houses on Guryanova street.Z
Terrorist acts: Transvaal park roof cave-in.Z
Terrorist acts: Basmanny market roof cave-in.Z
Terrorist acts: preparation to Snejcom roof cave-in and fire.Z
Murder of Alexander Litvinenko.Z
Murder of Anna Politkovskaya.Z
Murder of Doctor Liza.Z
Murder of Yury Schekocikhin.Z
Murder of Boris Berezovsky.Z
Murder of Vlad Listyev.Z
Murder of Boris Nemtsov.Z
Breivik mass shooting.Z
Beslan terrorist act.Z
Hostage-taking of a hospital in Budyonovsk.Z
Foundation of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization (prohibited in Russia).Z
Foundation of State Islam terrorist organization (prohibited in Russia).Z
Krokus City Hall Terrorist Attack
Las Vegas Shooting
Terrorist attacks in Samara Region (March 2024).
Pussy Riot rebellion in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
The Bolotnaya outrest.
The outrest on Academica Sakharova Avenue.
The school "Goal" of Oleg Yakovlev (son of Mongol).
The videoclip "Chaika" by Pussy Riot.
The performances of the group "Voina."

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