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The overheated rhetoric spewing from some politicians notwithstanding, I can hope that no court of law will be persuaded that there can be a terrorist organizat
by ScottBurson 16y ago
The overheated rhetoric spewing from some politicians notwithstanding, I can hope that no court of law will be persuaded that there can be a terrorist organization without weapons, indeed without violence of any kind.
(Even if Assange has committed some violent crime on his own -- and I am not saying he has -- this is clearly not the purpose of the organization.)
- yread 16y agoDoes the government still need to go through courts when dealing with "terrorists"?
- _delirium 16y agoThere is actually a bit of judicial review in the case of designating terrorist organizations, though I don't know how thorough. Here's Wikipedia on how terrorist organizations get designated, and how they can challenge it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._State_Department_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations#Designation_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._State_Department_list_of_F...