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DoD Training Manual Describes Protest As "Low-Level Terrorism"
Pentagon training course says engaging in First Amendment is terrorist activity

Current Department of Defense anti-terrorism training course material states that the exercise of First Amendment rights in the U.S. constitutes terrorist activity.

The ACLU has written to the DoD regarding its Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course, which advises personnel that political protest amounts to "low-level terrorism"

"It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense's Annual Level I Antiterrorism (AT) Training for 2009 misinforms Department of Defense (DoD) personnel that certain First Amendment-protected activity may amount to "low level terrorism" The ACLU writes.

long term efforts to crack down on organized dissent
The surveillance and pre-emptive arrest of protesters, on charges of "domestic terrorism", at last year's RNC by the FBI is also cited by the ACLU