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> When is a movement and movement, and not a guerilla terrorist cell network?

That depends on who wins the war, and thus writes the history books. From the point of view of the British, the American Revolution was an act of terrorism and treason.

Attempts by the military to understand (and, one would assume, prevent) popular uprisings would nip a second American Revolution in the bud, for better or worse.

The linked article refers to an attempt to entrench the status quo, and not everyone is pleased about that.



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