Mountain States Legal Foundation: Property Rights Activists Are Not Terrorists

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DENVER, March 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Property rights activists are not terrorists, the Governor of Virginia was advised today in a letter from a nationally known public interest law firm. Thus, Virginia should revoke and rewrite a manual developed by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management as part of a "terrorism awareness course" and used by that agency "to teach state employees basic terrorism awareness." In the letter, William Perry Pendley, president and chief legal office of Mountain States Legal Foundation, faulted the manual's label of "property rights activists" as "terrorist organizations" because they seek to "undermine confidence in the government" and "influence government or social policy."

"It is outrageous in the extreme that the Commonwealth of Virginia would advise Virginia state employees that 'Property Rights Activists' are members of 'domestic' 'terrorist organizations' and that they are to be treated accordingly," wrote Pendley. "The clients I have represented and the men and women whose property rights activism I have chronicled were engaged in that most basic exercise of constitutional rights; that is, they sought to redress their grievances in accordance with the constitutions of the United States and Virginia and the laws of those jurisdictions."

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Mountain States Legal Foundation: Property Rights Activists Are Not Terrorists

Pendley's letter comes following the media's reporting of a manual entitled, "Terroris...

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