Domestic terrorism

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Domestic terrorism is terrorism used by citizens within their own country. Possibly the most famous recent example in the United States is the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

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Propaganda

Governments who want to convince people that a certain act is really bad, especially if no obvious harm can be demonstrated (as in victimless crime), will often label the act as domestic terrorism. Examples include:

• the Liberty Dollar trial
• the entire "War on Drugs" is couched as a fight against the supposedly-terroristic act of manufacturing, selling, and even buying of psychoactive drugs

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Reference

• Wikipedia ("democracy and domestic terrorism" section of "terrorism" page)
• Conservapedia actually has a good example not mentioned by Wikipedia: animal rights terrorism
• dKosopedia
• SourceWatch has a substantial article discussing definitions and giving other examples

Related

• 2009/02/14 [L..T] Knoxville Shooter's Manifesto Made Public “Adkisson was also clear that he considered his actions a hate crime. He made a special point in explaining that by emphasizing his hatred of "damn left-wing Liberals."”