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What is terrorism, Bob?

Browsing the latest edition of The Progressive I came across this fascinating quotation in a story about the criminalization of dissent in the USA:

Mike Van Winkle, spokesman for the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center, told the Oakland Tribune last year: “You can make an easy kind of link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that’s being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that protest. You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act.”

You can understand why people find my Dissent is not a crime badge so amusing.