They could, but they would be called warmongers, criminals and imperialists.
So now you're calling army officers criminals, are you!
I've found no evidence as to who started this war, and certainly wouldn't go so far as to call them criminals.
There is a group of people who are well-known to have an axe to grind with the police, they're called criminals.
This time of year is ripe for what Mr. Nolan called opportunistic criminals.
Burt would call us very dangerous criminals.
Military and government officials started calling the rebels "terrorists," rather than "bandits" or "criminals," as had been the practice.
Are these not the people whom Mr Robertson was calling criminals just a few days ago?
The Prime Minister publicly calls the opposition a terrorist group and their leaders are called criminals with immunity.
They were called criminals, and the outraged law, like the bursting shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from the sea.