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Did you know... that a recent report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has shown an increase in felony waivers by U.S. military recruiters?

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Making Threats

So there's a bit of weasel-word'ery going on with one small portion of this article. A charge of 'making threats' or 'making terroristic threats' does not always have a nexus with the sort of ideologically driven acts we now associate with the word 'terrorism'. It's almost never in that ambit. 99 times in 100, they're more along the line of "I swear to god I'll come over there and (insert something stupid here)..." which someone says in the heat of the moment and winds up getting in trouble for. The statutes that govern making terroristic threats do indeed also incorporate things like 'bomb threats', which are something entirely different. The article as written uses tactical application of weasel words to leverage up the histrionics by saying "... wavers granted for people making terrorist threats, which can include bomb threats" without actually citing an example of whether or not the wavers in question actually did include bomb threats (protip: you can safely bet your life they did not). It would be akin to someone with some kind of agenda editing an article about someone with a simple battery conviction for a college bar fight 20 years by saying "John Q was convicted for battery in 1996, which can include beating senior citizens and aggravated battery on police officers" even if that much more severe offense type, as stated, is factually irrelevant to the article. So, deleting that. If they granted wavers for 'terrorist threats', as alarming as that particular phrase is, so be it... but that does not mean they granted wavers to people who made bomb threats or pledged allegiance to the Taliban FactsAndHonesty (talk) 01:01, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Felony Waiver

1. There isn't much information on this topic, but for the most part anything cited is between 3 different sources. One source is used about 4 times. It seems like every piece of information has a citation to go with it. 2. Everything in this article is relevant to the topic and nothing distracted me. It talks about what felony waivers are in general, the usage, frequency, and different crimes. 3. I checked the 3 citations and they all but the second one seemed to be working. I clicked on the second one and it took me to a page that said it did not exist. Other than that, the other citations worked. I don't believe there is plagiarism, and that the writers did a fine job with interpreting the information.Dagostino.rachel7 (talk) 06:15, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]