Visits to terrorist chat rooms put man in jail

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Originally posted by JR@Jun 30 2005, 12:36 PM
Uhmmm.... doesn't the article clearly say that he was jailed because of immigration fraud?

Yes, it does - and if you read my post, you'll see that I said I don't have a problem with that at all.

But gimme a break - how does surfing to a website and scanning a BBS make one a terrorist?

It's one thing when a moron on a BBS argues that actually reading some material makes one a believer in whatever philosophy that material espouses. Hell, I've been accused of being a Marxist right here on Oprano because I have read some Marx (the German fella - not the one in my avatar).

It's quite another thing when morons like that start working for the FBI, and presenting lame-ass arguements like that to judges.

Maybe there's more to it - after all, nowdays Uncle Joe would approve of some of our court procedures, so we may not have the whole story - but taken by itself, that's the sort of arguement one expects to hear made in the courts of Cuba, Iran, and China, and strikes me as a good first step down the proverbial "slippery slope."