Sluka 5: "Terror states who practice extrajudicial execution or political assassination of their opponents have seen 'subversion' in any activity or idea that challenges the status quo — including organizing peasants, unions, Bible classes, proposals for land reform, or tax increases on the rich. Anyone engaged in such activities — clergy, labor organizers or trade unionists, human rights activists, indigenous peoples and minorities asserting their rights, teachers, students, health and social workers, journalists, and so on — are defined as subversives, terrorists, traitors, or communists, and this is used as the rationalization and justification for killing them without even due process of law. No one is safe; the victims have included men, women, children, and old people, activists, relatives of activists, and witnesses of state abuses. 'The target,' as one U.S. diplomat described death squad operations in 1984, 'is anybody with an idea in his head' (Siegel and Hackel 1988:115)"