Terrorist – a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act – the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.
Websters:
n. 1. One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
2. One who commits terrorism{2}.
By either or both sources AIM under the guidance of it’s original “leadership” qualifies as terrorists replete with it’s hand selected wannabe Imam Crow Dog and it’s self proclaimed Ayatollahs.
Of course all “movements” need a martyr, and Peltier has become their’s after scraping the bothom of the barrel.
They’ve made every attempt to portray themselves as “religious”-that they are “spiritually” based.
Yet like all such groups who promote themselves as being so inclined they never hesitated to murder, coerce, lie, steal, or even fashion and detonate explosive devices.
Intimidation has been a stock in trade, from providing “examples” in the form of their victims to threatening the well being of children and extended family.
Not much heroic about any of that is there? Not much “spiritual” or traditional either is there?
A part of Websters definition is to cite the Reign of Terror in France, and again we see a similar event in what has become known as Wounded Knee 2 where AIM rampaged, stole, intimidated, murdered, and raped it’s way across the landscape.
Their excuse? They were victims, they were made to do it, and it wasn’t an invasion by an armed force bent on destruction but an act of “liberation”.
The only thing they liberated was the property of others. That they considered tossing people out of their homes, stealing their cars, holding hostages, and cold bloodily executing people were acts to liberation.