Reply #138: selective application of the rule of law. [View All]

[ChairmanAgnostic]

If it is anti-israel, it is illegal; if it is pro-arab, it is illegal; and if the Israeli lobby can't control it, get their paid puppets in congress to ban it.
Before any statute can be enforced, it must first pass a critically important standard. Is the law constitutional?
The White House, and you, seem to forget that we have a constitution. Or a first amendment.

These laws banning A-N are, in my mind unconstitutional. The only reason that they have not been attacked in the courts yet is due to a combination of factors:
a) fear (created by the administration and more)
b) faux patriotism
c) political pressure from AIPAC and others
d) knowledge about financial retribution should anyone take the first step to object to those laws.

You quote the A-M's illegal status as though it were the end all and be all. It is not, unless simplistic thinking is all you are capable of engaging in. That is unfortunate. What is worse is how the feds treat other Muslims and Middle Eastern customs which conflict with Israel.

In Chicago, we have a large muslim and large arab population. In my nape of the forest, there are mosques competing with evangelical christian brain-washing centers. Part of their faith (one part I strongly support) is that each and every muslim, no matter how poor or destitute, must engage in a couple of things. They must pray 5 times a day, they MUST TITHE a percentage of their income or assets, and at least once, they must visit their holy land. The US attorneys under Ashcroft had a field day prosecuting and indicting local, popular and patriotic AMERICAN muslims here who donated money to various organizations in the ME. Funds that were intended for schools, doctors, medicine, teachers, housing,

But, according to one pleading I personally dealt with, because computers for kids or medicine for everyone "could have reached" Hezbullah in Lebanon, the entire foundation helping the poor in Lebanon was deemed a terrorist front, a sham, an organization outlawed by the US (with Israel's strong support and AIPAC's heavy handed efforts). The upshot is that several very warm, friendly, patriotic American citizens were arrested and accused of supporting terrorists in the ME. Which is all bullshit.

The only reason that the US wants to ban A-N is because the lies and bull practiced by our government would be stripped bare and shown to be false. 99% of what Hezbullah does is charitable, good, and helps hundreds of thousands of people. BUt according to Dick CHeny, AIPAC, Condi Rice and George Bush, the entire structure is a terrorist organization. Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.