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...Federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.
Terrorism watch lists, no fly lists and government lists of cults and sects should not be legal in the US, as they violate the right to due process. Often there's no reasonable way to challenge having your name on a list. It's put there arbitrarily by a law enforcement officer without any oversight or process, meaning your name can be added again without restriction. And being on those lists often affects the civil rights to which you have access.
But then, the new regime is trying to strip ordinary citizens of their rights until we are all bonded serfs again.
The way the term terrorism is used so indiscriminately in the US and even more widely recently, is really worrying. I've heard Flock spokespersons casually refer to Antifa as terrorists. Like it's a (largely) undisputed fact.
This also spills over into other countries that have long-standing agreements with the USA.
Despite most of them actually giving up on the term terrorism entirely.