I have a question: are there statutes that prohibit expressing support for the aims of Hamas? In other words, would I incur criminal penalties for openly expressing support for the ultimate aims of Hamas? Wouldn't this be a free speech matter?
The little research I've done implies criminal penalties for MATERIAL support of groups designat…
I have a question: are there statutes that prohibit expressing support for the aims of Hamas? In other words, would I incur criminal penalties for openly expressing support for the ultimate aims of Hamas? Wouldn't this be a free speech matter?
The little research I've done implies criminal penalties for MATERIAL support of groups designated as terrorist organizations but I found nothing regarding support purely in the form of speech.
If I defined the ultimate aim of Hamas as freeing the Palestinian people from their Zionist colonizers and the colonizer campaign of ethnic cleansing through expulsion and destruction, why would it be support of terrorism to say I support the aims of Hamas? How would that be any different than Americans supporting the Mau Mau of Kenya in the 1960s?
Our constitutional right to speak freely is being imperiled by this alliance with a colonial anachronism, a right which is foundational to every other we have.
"I have a question: are there statutes that prohibit expressing support for the aims of Hamas? In other words, would I incur criminal penalties for openly expressing support for the ultimate aims of Hamas? Wouldn't this be a free speech matter?"
Last time I looked there were 38 states in which our two cartel parties took away your First Amendment rights some time ago with "anti BDS" loyalty oaths to the government of Israel that censor your right to advocate for a boycott of Israeli corporations and in some cases to even criticize the gangster government of BB Nuts'n'Yahoos.
The operatives of the Democratic Party seem fully in step to hand over the right to govern American citizens to the government of Israel and strip from them the Bill of Rights so long as the AIPAC dollars keep flowing.
Pat, I am waiting to hear of the SC deciding that, seeing no way that they cannot so decide, but if money can be called speech, the Court can make the impossible possible.
The state anti-BDS laws are in two groups. One group prohibits state pension funds from investing in any organization that supports BDS and the other group prohibits state contracts from going to anyone who will not sign a statement of opposition to BDS and renounce participation in BDS. Both groups are denying freedom of speech but the latter is openly sanctioning freedom of speech and is outrageously unconstitutional.
I have a question: are there statutes that prohibit expressing support for the aims of Hamas? In other words, would I incur criminal penalties for openly expressing support for the ultimate aims of Hamas? Wouldn't this be a free speech matter?
The little research I've done implies criminal penalties for MATERIAL support of groups designated as terrorist organizations but I found nothing regarding support purely in the form of speech.
If I defined the ultimate aim of Hamas as freeing the Palestinian people from their Zionist colonizers and the colonizer campaign of ethnic cleansing through expulsion and destruction, why would it be support of terrorism to say I support the aims of Hamas? How would that be any different than Americans supporting the Mau Mau of Kenya in the 1960s?
Our constitutional right to speak freely is being imperiled by this alliance with a colonial anachronism, a right which is foundational to every other we have.
"I have a question: are there statutes that prohibit expressing support for the aims of Hamas? In other words, would I incur criminal penalties for openly expressing support for the ultimate aims of Hamas? Wouldn't this be a free speech matter?"
Last time I looked there were 38 states in which our two cartel parties took away your First Amendment rights some time ago with "anti BDS" loyalty oaths to the government of Israel that censor your right to advocate for a boycott of Israeli corporations and in some cases to even criticize the gangster government of BB Nuts'n'Yahoos.
The operatives of the Democratic Party seem fully in step to hand over the right to govern American citizens to the government of Israel and strip from them the Bill of Rights so long as the AIPAC dollars keep flowing.
I thought SCOTUS had declared these unconstitutional.
Pat, I am waiting to hear of the SC deciding that, seeing no way that they cannot so decide, but if money can be called speech, the Court can make the impossible possible.
The state anti-BDS laws are in two groups. One group prohibits state pension funds from investing in any organization that supports BDS and the other group prohibits state contracts from going to anyone who will not sign a statement of opposition to BDS and renounce participation in BDS. Both groups are denying freedom of speech but the latter is openly sanctioning freedom of speech and is outrageously unconstitutional.
Which SCOTUS, and declared what unConstitutional? The current SCOTUS changes its mind every 20 minutes, except it always runs interference for Donnie.