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False accusations of &ldquo;terrorism&rdquo; are standard practice for suppressing political opposition. In the US, protesters who smashed windows at the 2008 Republican National Convention were charged with &ldquo;terrorism.&rdquo;5 More recently, Iran described protesters demanding a new election as &ldquo;terrorists.&rdquo;6 The generals who ruled most of South America in the 1970s offered precisely that justification for their systematic murder of dissidents.7