Daniel Armand of NOVA in The 4400: Terrorist, Vigilante or Freedom Fighter?

The USA Network's original series summer kicked off on June 11 with season three of science fiction show The 4400 (Caution: spoilers follow for the season three premiere, The New World). The 4400 is about 4400 people who have been kidnapped by future humans over the past sixty years and returned to a lake near Seattle, Washington on June 11, 2004. Initially put in government quarantine by Dennis Ryland (Peter Coyote) and his new organization NTAC, the 4400 were eventually released, but not before they discovered that they each had some unique power.

The U.S. government, needless to say, did not respond well to this crisis. At the end of season two, Ryland and some colleagues were caught experimenting on the 4400, trying to suppress and control them with drugs. Twenty-three 4400 died.

Shawn Farrell (Patrick Flueger), a young healer and pacifist running a center dedicated to helping the 4400 adjust and contribute to society, worried what the government might do next. He gave money to an older 4400, Daniel Armand (Ian Tracey), to create a defensive wing of the group-NOVA. But Daniel went further and used the new group to strike back at the U.S. government, nearly killing Ryland and assassinating several of Ryland's colleagues in revenge for the 4400 deaths in season two.

So, is Daniel Armand a terrorist?