ME: LePage meets with terrorists (no joke)

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Can you name an actual terrorist act committed by the SC movement?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement#Incidents

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Can we not extend the term "terrorist" to anybody who is associated with something that makes the FBI uncomfortable?

Not when they're specifically designated as a terrorist organization...

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Can we not extend the term "terrorist" to anybody who is associated with something that makes the FBI uncomfortable?

Not when they're specifically designated as a terrorist organization...

By whom? I mean, if the FBI thinks the SC movement is a terrorist organization and you take their word for it, then you should also designate Martin Luther King as a terrorist. The same logic applies.

Um, no.

Can we not extend the term "terrorist" to anybody who is associated with something that makes the FBI uncomfortable?

Not when they're specifically designated as a terrorist organization...

Aside from the fact that I think the FBI is probably too promiscuous with their labels (I mean, come on, Food Not Bombs?) from what I can tell there is no actual organization called "Sovereign Citizens" and what the FBI has said is that they are concerned about extremists in the movement.  

Just because a movement lacks a hierarchy doesn't mean it can't be classified as a movement.  If the Governor of Maine is conversing with people who apparently sympathize with that movement, then it's no better than Barack Obama having a meeting with members of the Black Panther Party.