Doesn't this challenge then make the members of the ACLU lawful protestors? Wouldn't that force the ACLU to admit that it is a "Low-Level Terrorists" organization and thus the ACLU is composed of proto-enemy combatants. And then anyone who has donated to the ACLU is in financial support of a terrorist organization? And since those people are supporting terrorist organizations ... don't those people lose their right to be citizens? And then they lose access to US American jurisprudence? Isn't that how this shit works?
This is a serious problem, and I'm afraid it isn't going to get any better. The US government is the most powerful entity in the world and its purpose is to protect the most powerful people in the world. The executive branch has the legal power to do pretty much anything it wants now, and if it isn't legal they'll do it anyway. The conditions are in place for this country to become strikingly Orwellian. All it will take is one more major terror attack and anybody who dissents will be considered a traitor, terrorist, subversive, or what have you. Not for the sake of security, but because that's what they've wanted all along. The American people are so pacified already, they'll stand by and watch it happen and continue believing that a Republican or Democrat can fix things.
I read the title as 'ACLU Challenges Defense Department To Regard Lawful Protests As “Low-Level Terrorism”' and I was really confused.