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Supreme Court Says It’s Illegal To Teach Members Of A Terrorist Group Peaceful Means Posted in _Liberaland_ (http://www.alan.com/category/liberaland/) by Alan • June 21, 2010, 5:51 PMET • _2 Comments »_ (http://www.alan.com/2010/06/21/supreme-court-says-its-illegal-to-teach-members-of-a-terrorist-group-peacefu l-means/#comments)

The Supreme Court upheld _the most controversial part of the Patriot Act_ (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0621/Supreme-Court-upholds-controv ersial-part-of-Patriot-Act) , the material support law, that says it is illegal to teach peaceful means to members of terrorist groups. The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, says that Congress intentionally wrote the statute with a broad sweep to outlaw material support to terror groups in any form, including assistance or expertise that might help nudge the group toward nonviolence. Chief Justice Roberts quoted a congressional finding in support of his broad reading of the statute: “[F]oreign organizations that engage in terrorist activity are so tainted by their criminal conduct that any contribution to such an organization facilitates that conduct.” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent. “… I would read the statute as criminalizing First-Amendment-protected pure speech and association only when the defendant knows or intends that those activities will assist the organization’s unlawful terrorist actions,” Justice Breyer wrote. For example, if an aviation expert gave advice that facilitated a hijacking, the expert could be prosecuted for his role in facilitating the hijacking, he said. But teaching leaders of a terror group how to petition the United Nations would not.

Robert, No it is not the same Njoki. I just talked to Deo Njoki. Unfortunately he is not a member of this forum. If he was, he would have told you that he was invited by some people to attend a meeting that he didn’t attend. He therefore like some other mentioned are not party to whatever is attributed to them.

I hope we won’t wake up to denials like the ones of Owek. Muliika.

*PAUL *NJOKI

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Robert Ssenkindu <labankafeero@hotmail.com

Before Kagame and his puppet government talks of the rule of law in Rwanda he should first examine himself. Malicious manipulation of the truth, clever handling of the press to hide the truth, intimidations, imprisonments, assassinations, harassments, and excessive use of money, political appointments to power, can never build the hearts of Rwandese to live again together in harmony unless the truth comes out. The refusal to incorporate some experienced Hutu judges and prosecutors, who remained in the country or who returned after the RPF’s victory, as well as the arrest, assassination or departure into exile of a number of them, led to a lack of experienced Judicial personnel in Rwanda. This is a clear testimony that the government controls the legal system in a partisan way which is a big hindrance to natural justice and true national reconciliation. A constitution commits the state to observe the rule of law. However in a 2008 amendment, following the footsteps of Museveni his mentor, Kagame changed the Rwanda Constitution to provide that a retiring president (which presumably refers to the prospect of retirement of President Kagame) “shall not be prosecuted for [high treason or grave and intentional breach of the Constitution] when no proceedings in respect to such an offence were brought against him/her during his or her presidency”. If Kagame is confident that he is clean in his governance as he has always claimed, then there should have been no reason to amend their constitution in such a way that promotes dictatorship with impunity. This constitutional amendment was made just to try and protect Kagame of his sins. Moaning hearts of genocide survivors, traumatised hearts of all Rwandese who lost their loved ones be it Hutus, Tutsis, or Twas, and bleeding hearts of foreigners who lost their loved ones in the Rwanda tragedy can only be calmed and cooled when all parties involved bring out the whole truth as the first step towards true and meaningful reconciliation. Unless the truth comes out willingly from all parties involved and hearts are mended and rebuilt for proper forgiveness, nothing can ever be reached in as far as development, be it physical or moral. Considering all the well documented evidence detailing RPF’s implications in very serious war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, I strongly believe that there can never be meaningful reconciliation amongst all peace loving Rwandese unless RPF leader Paul Kagame is brought to book and prosecuted for crimes directly related to him and his henchmen. Kagame in my opinion has too much blood on his hands that has badly blinded his logic. That is why he thinks that by harassing innocent, peaceful Rwandese like Ingabire will shield the bitter truth forever. I would personally advise Kagame to step aside and let clean innocent people take over the long journey of leading the peace loving Rwandese people to the much needed reconciliation.

French to English translation DRC: Rebels of the LRA are killing and kidnapping of peaceful citizens DIA »Politics & Society Thurs, January 21 2010 at 08:42:53 | Send article Kinshasa – (DIA) – Six armed elements identified as Ugandan rebel LRA (Army of the Lord’s Resistance) were raided Wednesday, January 13, 2010 in the morning in a piece of the chapel Nagbende (8 km Bamokandi Parish in the Diocese of Dungu-Doruma District Upper Uélé, in Orientale province). They killed 4 civilians and kidnapped a catechist at the end of this attack.

According to the testimony referred to caritasdev.cd, “the attackers pretending to learn the location of the headquarters of MONUC in the City of Dungu to surrender, they said. After eating the food they had brought with them, about 14 hours, they took the road to go to Dungu but in the bush near the road, the inhabitants of the plot, 4 adults and a prisoner who had been takenKaka to have been forced to accompany them.

At the height of the source napus, they passed a parcel where an old man repairing his mat was murdered by the Ugandan rebels. The villagers found his lifeless body the next day: Old Genes, 70, face was pierced by several bayonet wounds. “Around the source napus place much frequented by the population Bamokandi and located behind the Catholic primary school, the LRA rebels have tied up the people who had walked with them and all those who are found nearthis source. A few people have succeeded in escaping. ” With these fugitives news of the presence of LRA members spread throughout the district and in no time at all Bamokandi emptied and people ran towards the city of Dungu, where they were greeted the parish. In the meantime, near the source, the rebels fired on all those who sought to escape. A pregnant woman was shot, she fell dead a few hundred yards away in the bush. His body was discovered the next morning because of the cries of her baby clinging to her breast. Alerted by the gunfire LRA FARDC patrols near the school, began to retaliate. The rebels escaped. The two young Congolese associated with them have abandoned the prisoners, who linked one after another, threw themselves down. Other soldiers of the FARDC in parking lot behind the parish, opened fire. The shooting of five minutes has only increased the panic among the population at large. Alerted, helmets MONUC arrived in the parish with a dozen tanks.

The LRA members had fled to the path of Ngilima and reached the village of Nangbende, where they left yesterday. Around 22 hours, they stormed into the plot of the catechist Michel Ndakanya abducting his wife and nephew. While looting the village, the wife of the catechist, managed to free himself and escape. Other villagers have had time to hide in the bush. They were able to see the rebels plundered the village and go with the catechist and his nephew. The news of the death of catechists spread the next day, Friday, January 15, 2010, in the parish but has not been confirmed by the missionaries of the place. (Catholic Agency D.I.A. www.die-afrique.org)

Isn’t it interesting how Democrats must demonize their political opponents and demand theat the Democrats’ position be assumed reasonable and not political thuggery…

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/11/video-scenes-from-the-tucson-tea-party/

>> Once again, what’s remarkable about this protest is how absolutely ordinary it is. No one is foaming at the mouth; they’re mostly laughing at Giffords’ hypocritical attempts to cast herself as some sort of moderate while mindlessly following Pelosi and her radical agenda. They’re not an angry mob, as the media has cast the Tea Party movement — they’re a motivated group of voters who are sending a message that will only get louder in the coming year.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Appeal_for_peaceful_action_91268.shtml

In journalism, this kind of article by Daily Monitor Editor surpasses the usual editorials; it must have received the green-light from company owners. In this case, His Highness the Aga Khan’s office in Paris.

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