Alabama blogger Chris Brunner says the Alabama Department of Homeland Security thinks libertarians are terrorists, judging from the content on the department's "domestic terrorism" web page. If you review Brunner's blog post and the state of Alabama's web page on domestic terrorism, you'll see that Alabama defines terrorists based on what they believe rather than what they do: Libertarians are terrorists because they are opposed to gun control and think the federal government is too large, oppressive, and non-constitutional. Other groups of various ideologies are terrorists because of what they believe about the government.
That's the wrong way to define a terrorist. Muslims who believe Islam should rule the world aren't terrorists unless they strap on the suicide belt, plant bombs on buses, or hijack airliners and fly them into buildings. The libertarians I know aren't doing those kinds of things to further the libertarian agenda. They're not terrorists. They're Americans with a political point of view.
If the government defines anyone who doesn't like the government as a terrorist, well, that means the government believes tthat pretty much every American at one time or another is a terrorist.
It's a good thing that the Alabama Homeland Security folks don't have jurisdiction in Nashville, else they might have raided the big libertarian hoedown Tuesday night in Nashville.
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