So basically if a group can in any way be connected to terror or the US govt say it is connected to terror then you can be prosecuted as a terrorist. Yeah, the ACLU is about to have its' members get first hand experience of how badly civil rights are abused in the Prison Industrial Complex. This is a tremendous boon for foreign policy because basically anyone who offers wholly peaceful advice to a foreign (or domestic) group for that matter who has been labelled an enemy can be silenced as a terrorist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jun/21/nonviolent-aid-banned-groups-terrorism
And just in case y'all aren't depressed enough yet:
"The government's case was argued in February by Elena Kagan, who is now the Obama administration's nominee to the supreme court.
"Hezbollah builds bombs. Hezbollah also builds homes. What Congress decided was when you help Hezbollah build homes, you are also helping Hezbollah build bombs. That's the entire theory behind the statute," she told the court.""
In a 7-2 decision...
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