At the 2007 Eugene sentencings, the government won a "terrorism enhancement" against defendants whose actions had harmed no one — Daniel McGowan, who refused to inform on others, drew seven years and served much of it in the Bureau of Prisons' secretive Communication Management Units, the "Little Guantánamos" whose story his case (and the film If a Tree Falls) forced into the open. Jonathan Paul, Exile, and other non-cooperating defendants likewise served terrorism-labeled terms for property damage.
The label's consequences — CMU isolation, decades-long sentences, the chilling of aboveground activism — became known in the movement as the Green Scare, the environmental era's echo of the Red ones; supporters' campaigns for the "Green Scare prisoners" built the modern eco-prisoner support network.