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Thomas Jefferson lived centuries before the internet and the rise of Tor but he is easy to see as a Tor user.
He was the author of the Declaration of Independence, which if you read the details, is a highly offensive document:
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He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
…He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
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Update the language of “For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences” to “Transporting people to Guantanamo Bay prison for unlawful detention” and you have a good example of what FBI wants discussed in clear text.
Make no mistake, the FBI of today, working for George III, would have arrested Thomas Jefferson if it caught wind of the Declaration of Independence. At that time, Jefferson was not the towering figure of liberty that he is today. Then he was the opponent of a nation-state.
Jefferson was too early for Tor but he is the type of person that Tor protects.
Do you want to be on the side of George III or Jefferson in history?