Teaching nonviolent protest to designated terror groups is prosecutable as material aid
Evidence
In an ultimate insult to the first amendment, the US Supreme Court in 2010 decided in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project that offering training in nonviolent, peaceful protest techniques to groups designated as terrorist organizations by the executive branch could be prosecuted as material aid to terrorists. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 418
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: The Holder decision is arguably the cleanest legal instance of fear-caused suppression of speech — directly relevant to the volume’s ‘frightened subject’ thesis.
- SEED: Angle: the Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project ruling as the juridical crystallization of how counterterrorism fear narrows the first amendment.