On Mar 29, 2006, at 12:41 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Are there reliable sources that he advocates terrorism?
I haven't found any yet, but haven't looked that hard. I had never heard of the guy before, which I find quite agreeable. I think his advocacy is based on inference, not direct evidence of advocacy statements. He does things which an advocate of terrorism would do, but does not say he advocates terrorism in so many words. This sort of proof was once used in prosecuting the leaders of the Communist Party USA but the thinking was rejected by Yates v. United States. We have a brief article on that.
I think though, in terms of choice of plaintiff, he would make a good one. I would hate us to be so chickenshit that we could not truthfully say that this is a very bad man.
Fred