Opponents say labels like 'domestic terrorist' and 'outsider' are meant to delegitimize the movement
in the forest last month, ended in arrests after some threw rocks at a downtown building and lit a police car on fire.
18 activists, including some who allegedly occupied the forest site, are being prosecuted under domestic terrorism and other charges by Georgia's attorney general and DeKalb's district attorney.Franklin told Axios he's pored over archives of debates surrounding the Voting and Civil Rights acts and "you find a lot of the local racist and segregationists saying that the only reason why Black folks, for example, have issues is because of outsiders that are stirring the pot.
"They said, 'Well, we had peace and harmony in our community before the outsiders came in,'" he said, adding that most protests were led by local, mostly Black people. "They could not grasp the idea that local Black folks had these grievances."Carr told Axios the comparison to the struggle to end racial discrimination is "absurd" and that he sees a "bright line" between words and actions.
"Protesters use words,” Carr said. "Actions, acts of throwing rocks through windows and lighting cars on fire, shooting police officers, anything that is an act of violence is no longer peaceful protest."Terrorism as a word is so broadly used that it's become meaningless, John Horgan, a Georgia State University professor who studies terrorism and political violence, told Axios.
"It's a pejorative label, and increasingly used just to characterize acts that we ourselves disagree with," Horgan said.In response to a question from Axios, Kemp's communications director Andrew Isenhour said: "For our part, we define domestic terrorists as those who commit acts of domestic terrorism, plain and simple."
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