Teaching peaceful protest to designated groups became prosecutable 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

  • XREF: This specific legal finding is the sharpest empirical instance of the chapter’s core claim that critique is suppressed regardless of threat - the very definition of nonviolent speech being criminalized.