# Terrorism as performance art **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968 "2008-11-16T05:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/1 "2008-11-16T05:41:32Z")
You couldn’t make this stuff up: [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3\_OL4iMEraXNvCj\_LpKSKRpWzdwD94EQQB80](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3_OL4iMEraXNvCj_LpKSKRpWzdwD94EQQB80) > [@](#): > > DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — A Belfast judge convicted a notorious Protestant militant Friday of trying to kill Catholic politicians during his bizarre — and internationally broadcast — attempt to attack the Northern Ireland Assembly two years ago. > > Justice Donnell Deeny rejected as unbelievable Michael Stone’s claim that he intended his November 2006 assault on Northern Ireland’s power-sharing legislature to **be an act of cutting-edge performance art.** ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/2 "2008-11-16T07:38:31Z")
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**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/3 "2008-11-16T07:40:45Z")
Gee, I know art critics can be harsh, but sending the guy to prison for life is a bit too much, no? Wait… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/4 "2008-11-16T08:19:58Z")
Yeah, that’s grade-A bullshit, but it does make me wonder, is it only performance art if you only hurt yourself? ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/5 "2008-11-16T08:56:55Z")
As an Irishman, I just popped into this thread to say … only in Ireland. Seriously, only in Ireland could this happen. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/6 "2008-11-16T12:36:09Z")
Someone laid [fake bombs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=369251) in London a while back as ‘performance art’. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/7 "2008-11-16T12:38:30Z")
All terrorism is performance art. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/8 "2008-11-16T12:52:40Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > All terrorism is performance art. I wonder if right now, someone in a cave somewhere is clapping Osama Bin Laden on the shoulder, going “So, so, it’s alright. Tough crowd.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/9 "2008-11-16T15:04:46Z")
Real performance artists don’t do it for allacuse - they do it to challange people’s preconceptions. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/10 "2008-11-17T13:40:01Z")
We’ve all heard about people suffering for their art,well he was just trying redress the balance a little and make OTHER people suffer for his art. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/11 "2008-11-17T16:41:32Z")
I can’t wait to read the judgement. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorism-as-performance-art/472968/12 "2008-11-18T04:55:57Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > We’ve all heard about people suffering for their art,well he was just trying redress the balance a little and make OTHER people suffer for his art. Britney Spears has been doing that for years.