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Anti War has always meant Terrorist to the FBI. This is a precedent going back at least to World War I. (I don't know if any anti-war activists were imprisone

• sillygoose 11y ago
  A "terrorist" is anyone who does something that could potentially harm the rulers' interests.
• pmorici 11y ago
  The precedent goes back a lot further than that, It's almost an American tradition it's been going on so long. There was a law passed in 1798, the Alien & Sedition Acts, that was used to jail people who were against the so called Quasi-war on the grounds they were dangerous to national security. Howard Zinn discusses it in the book "A People's History of the United States". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
  • meesterdude 11y ago
    Great comment! I never knew about this before.
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > Anti War has always meant Terrorist to the FBI. No, it used to mean "subversive" to the FBI (and other law enforcement, even before there was an FBI) -- but then, "terrorist" wasn't even a category law enforcement used or was concerned about when they were first concerned about anti-war activists. (Heck, when law enforcement first started being concerned about it, "terrorist" still mainly referred to governments using of terror against their own population.)
  • couchand 11y ago
    While that may be technically true, it's not really relevant to the comment, is it?