ACLU Helping Hamas
Posted on January 12, 2006
Hat tip: Pirate’s Cove and Sweet Spirits of Ammonia
How is this not treason?
In October of 2004, the ACLU turned down $1.15 million in funding from two of it’s most generous and loyal contributors, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, saying new anti-terrorism restrictions demanded by the institutions make it unable to accept their funds.
“The Ford Foundation now bars recipients of its funds from engaging in any activity that “promotes violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state.”
The Rockefeller Foundation’s provisions state that recipients of its funds may not “directly or indirectly engage in, promote, or support other organizations or individuals who engage in or promote terrorist activity.”
Why would they do something like that? Well, so they can support individuals who engage in and promote terrorist activity!
Two civil liberties groups filed legal briefs this week in support of a Virginia man accused of helping to fund Mideast terrorists, arguing that federal agents had no right to search his home without a warrant in 1993.
The prosecution of Abdelhaleem Ashqar in federal court in Chicago is the first case to test whether national security concerns can justify searching a person’s home without a warrant, the two groups said.
“We’ve always been opposed to warrantless physical searches,” said Harvey Grossman, legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. “You physically break into the home when people aren’t there. It’s like burglary.”
The Center for National Security Studies, based in Washington, D.C., joined with the ACLU in the friend-of-the-court brief, which supports Ashqar’s attempt to prevent evidence from the search from being used against him.
Federal prosecutors allege that Ashqar and two other men, Muhammed Salah of Bridgeview and Mousa Abu Marzook, participated in a 15-year conspiracy to finance the group Hamas, laundering millions of dollars, some of which went to buy weapons. Marzook is a fugitive believed to be living in Syria.
By the way, Ashqar is not a U.S. citizen. He is being represented by Stanley Cohen, a radical lawyer who is also the U.S. attorney for Hamas, and who has appeared on Fox Television from Gaza expressing his unabashed support for Hamas activities.
A spokesman for U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald declined to comment Tuesday. But in a court filing in August, prosecutors argued that the search of Ashqar’s home in Oxford, Miss., was unlike a normal search of a suspect’s residence.
“The 4th Amendment does not require the government to obtain court approval for a foreign intelligence search of an agent of a foreign power,” prosecutors wrote.
When it comes to protecting the rights of terrorist, and their supporters, you can always count on the ACLU.
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Abdelhaleem Ashqar should be taken out back and shot…..he is a terrorist by the mere fact that he aided and abetted terrorists, and he is entitled no protections under our laws save that of keeping him alive long enough to stand trial and, if found guilty, executed.
Those that are aiding his defense are, I imagine, already on the receiving end of NSA surveillance, and should also be rounded up and jailed. Supporting terrorists and those that aid them should be treason of the highest order, and a direct trip to jail.
I’m posting about this on my website. Treason is actually punishable by death, if we go by the original law. For some reason, people like Jane Fonda and the ACLU get away with it.
“Why would they do something like that? Well, so they can support individuals who engage in and promote terrorist activity!”
Also because in order to set precedent on civil liberties issues they may need to work for terrorists.