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In reply to the discussion: DoD Training Manual: Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism" [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)50. I wouldn't worry too much about internal government bureaucratic documents
They may as well label it with numbers.
Take any government bureaucracy and you'll see phrases used that mean some specific thing or concept but have little to do with the regular use of the words. Only people in the department and lawyers know what they are talking about.
For many purposes, the criminal code uses a term "crime of violence." It is defined as certain sections. It does not mean "crime of violence" so much as it means the crimes described in the sections it refers to.
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Yes, but I am not feeling any safer because it is becoming transparent. In fact I feel more
jwirr
Dec 2011
#42
See Kent State for how that "force protection" from "terrorists" works.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2011
#3
"Low level terrorism?" Who thought that term up? Is it like being sort of pregnant?
BeHereNow
Dec 2011
#6
All your verbal gymnastics demonstrate is that one person's terrorist is
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2011
#22
Back in the 1790s the Federalists called Democratic-Republican activists "Terrorists".
Odin2005
Dec 2011
#47
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks. Actually, a thorough etymology of the word and its
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2011
#49
Exactly! Meant to scare people into complying, conforming, and not uttering a peep.
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2011
#17
You're either with us or a'gin' us: any one having the temerity to question any policy or
indepat
Dec 2011
#18
As we have seen, there is low-level terrorism....perpetrated by the police. n/t
AntiFascist
Dec 2011
#32
Xe and the like will do as they are paid to as will the vast majority of law enforcement
TheKentuckian
Dec 2011
#38