Y'all are reading into this inversely.
This just means all acts of vandalism are going to be classified as terrorist acts, which means you go to big boy disappear forever jail for fucking with them.
It isn't the gotcha you think it is.
They're going to fuck the taxpayers over (us) for any damage that happens to them, and whoever is caught messing with them is going to get fucking disappeared after being made a big fat example of.
These are the times when you absolutely have to read between the lines.