FBI targets US Palestine activists

[ConsAreLiars]

Warrants indicate that investigators believe Molm and at least seven other activists from the Minnesota anti-war committee and other groups provided material support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), groups the US considers terrorist organisations.
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As a legal scholar, Dohrn worries about the vague nature of national security laws instituted after the September 11, 2001 attacks on US targets.

"If you write articles, is that material support ? If you contribute resources for computers or healthcare clinics in occupied territories, or territories resisting government control, is that material support?"
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People who appear before a grand jury "cannot bring in a lawyer. It is the prosecutor, you and a group of grand jurors … in short it is a coercive method to get information."
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Like other subpoenaed activists, Molm works for a group called Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which had been critical in organising major demonstrations against the US war in Vietnam back in the 1960s and 70s.

More at: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/09/201092993840748931.html

[leveymg]

1. Same attention needs to be applied to those who support armed settlers groups.

Terrorism is terrorism.

[TBF]

4. Agree with this. nt

[pinboy3niner]

2. This is nothing new

In 1972, the FBI questioned Palestinian students at colleges in SoCal (and probably around the country) after the Black September attack at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

I wrote a story about it for a campus paper when it happened. Agents knocked on students' doors, usually around 5 AM, questioning them in their dorms or apartments. The students I interviewed said they were asked about the books on their shelves and the posters on their walls as the agents tried to develop information about their politics.

I don't recall warrants or physical searches being involved in those cases, but the students clearly felt intimidated by the visits (especially at such an early hour), and authorities obviously were compiling intelligence on their politics and activism.

[Panaconda]

3. K&R n/t