here's the Official Bad Guys listthis basic first amendment right is under fire. in 2010, the US Supreme Court in
Holder vs. Humanitarian Law project ruled that people can be convicted of "material support for a terrorist group" simply by giving them "aid and assistiance" and "training" through speech.
in the above case the Humanitarian Law Project had spoken with members of US-designated terror groups and urged them to seek peaceful resolution to their conflicts. the Court ruled this action to be in violation of the PATRIOT Act and commensurate with the First Amendment.
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earlier this year, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Jeremy Scahill wrote an article in which he anonymously sourced a contact "within al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula". the FBI responded that the act was "disgusting".
personally I believe Scahill and the few journalists like him will be in prison within a decade. conversation with "terror groups" will be effectively treated like a form of treason: thus forming the perfect brick wall between the US population and those we are supposedly
at war "engaged in hostilities" with.