a long time ago, i proclaimed that the definition of terrorist didnt exist

and i wondered just who could be classified as terrorst - making the example of george washington would have been a terrorist in present day. and now we see the definition of terrorist is being used against peaceful protestors.

The names and licenseplate numbers of about 30 people who protested
three years ago in Colorado Springs were put into FBI domestic-terrorism files,
the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado said Thursday. The
Denver-based ACLU obtained federal documents on a 2002 Colorado Springs protest
and a 2003 anti-war rally under the Freedom of Information Act. ACLU legal
director Mark Silverstein said the documents show the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task
Force wastes resources generating files on “nonviolent protest.” “These
documents confirm that the names and license plate numbers of several dozen
peaceful protesters who committed no crime are now in a JTTF file marked
‘counterterrorism,’” he said. “This kind of surveillance of First Amendment
activities has serious consequences. Law-abiding Americans may be reluctant to
speak out when doing so means that their names will wind up in an FBI
file.”

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