The injustices and excesses of that experiment ultimately led the Supreme Court to rule that where the government seeks to hold someone accountable for supporting a group, it must prove that the individual specifically intended to further the group's unlawful ends. Under the anti-terrorism bill, the Secretary of State could designate any foreign group as 'terrorist,' and it would then become a crime, punishable by up to ten years in prison, to support that group's lawful activities. The Secretary's designation would for all practical purposes be unreviewable, because the legal standard for what qualifies a group as terrorist relies on the Secretary's judgment that the group's activities threaten our 'national security,' a judgment no court is likely to second-guess. The Victims Now let us look at the victims of this bill. It is noteworthy that almost all of the twenty-plus persons currently incarcerated under this law are Muslims.
Draconian laws require a demonized enemy.
Today the Muslims play the role that the Catholics played in an earlier generation of government expansion at the expense of civil liberties. One should recall how Zionist propagandist Stephen Emerson initially blamed the Oklahoma City bombing on Muslims. In at least one case in which the secret evidence has come to light, the evidence turned out to be nothing more than newspaper articles repeating unsubstantiated allegations that the victims were associated with Muslim terrorist groups. Hani Kieraldeen spent 19 months jail without charges. The arrest was based on accusations by Hani s estranged wife.