Court in Contempt of First Amendment | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

Court in Contempt of First Amendment | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Justice Breyer shows exactly how the HLP did not, in any way, support terrorism. 'The plaintiffs, all United States citizens or associations,' declare 'they can (1) 'train members of the PKK on how to use humanitarian and international law to peacefully resolve disputes'' (2) 'engage in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds who live in Turkey; (3) teach PKK members how to petition various representative bodies such as the United Nations for relief; and (4) engage in political advocacy on behalf of Tamils who live in Sri Lanka.'"

"And Ahilan Arulanantham, an ACLU attorney for Southern California, explains another brutal dimension of this law: 'A humanitarian organization may send medicine to perform dialysis, but risks prosecution if it also seeks to send either the doctor or the equipment needed to perform the dialysis itself.'"