The NCPPF has acted as a legal-aid office of sorts for members or alleged members of a wide variety of terrorist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the Basque ETA separatist group of Spain, the FALN of Puerto Rico, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Shining Path of Peru, and for Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. --------------"Undermining war on terror : Muslim groups weakening fed laws under guise of protecting civil liberties," World Net Daily, March 10, 2003
Who else is associated with the NCPPF?
1997 : (SAMI AL ARIAN FOUNDS NCPPF) [Sami al-Arian's]... National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom poses as a watchdog for the Constitution, but he has focused his lobbying efforts on repealing anti-terrorist legislation.
... Al-Arian founded the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF) in 1997 as a reaction to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996. The coalition’s stated goal “is to help change the political climate to support due process and First Amendment rights by facilitating effective legal and political action.” However, it does not take long to connect the dots between NCPPF, American Marxists, and Muslim extremists apologizing for Islamic terrorism both here and abroad. ...
The NCPPF website simply reads, “We are a coalition whose members are organizations.” The organizations the NCPPF includes as members run the gambit from pro-Marxist Palestinian groups to anti-Israeli Palestinian groups, and from pro-Communist American groups to pro-Palestinian-terrorist American groups. ..--------------.Lobby for Terror Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/28/04 | Thomas Ryan
2000 - 2002 : (FL : SAMI AL ARIAN IS NCPPF PRESIDENT -- see TAMPA CELL ) From 2000 to 2002, the NCPPF (National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom) president was USF professor Sami Al-Arian. ...Sami al-Arian, of course, was a professor at University of South Florida who was arrested in 2003 – after an eight year investigation – for his involvement in fundraising for PIJ.-----------------"Undermining war on terror : Muslim groups weakening fed laws under guise of protecting civil liberties," World Net Daily, March 10, 2003
Who else?
Another member of NCPPF is the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). The CCR, which was founded by lawyer William Kunstler in 1966, is an advocacy organization that utilizes litigation in protest to what it deems are social injustices. Kunstler once stated, “The thing I'm most interested in is keeping people on the street who will forever alter the character of this society: the revolutionaries.” Kunstler’s Center follows this tenor, and the CCR has represented a number of revolutionaries with leftist, Communist, and even terrorist agendas. The CCR has litigated for the Armed Forces of National Liberation, which was responsible for more than 50 bomb attacks on U.S. political and military targets between 1974 and 1983. It has represented Basheer Hameed and Abdul Majid – members of the Black Panther Party convicted of killing two police officers. Other cop-killers the center has legally supported include the United Freedom Front, a violent, 60’s radical group that funded its homeland terrorism by conducting a series of bank robberies from Connecticut to Virginia, murdering policemen en route. -----------"Lobby for Terror," Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/28/04 | Thomas Ryan
and?
Also serving as a member of NCPPF is the American Muslim Council (AMC), whose founder, Abdurahman Alamoudi, like al-Arian, was arrested for his ties to Islamic terrorism. Aside from being the founder and executive director of the AMC, Abdurahman Alamoudi has been an Islamic affairs advisor for the Clinton administration; an official appointee of the Pentagon in charge of choosing Muslim chaplains; and was a State Department-selected Goodwill Ambassador to the Muslim nations. Alamoudi’s private life, however, was occupied with financing anti-American/anti-Israeli terrorist groups and nations: from the Libyan regime of Muammar Qadhafi, to Hezbollah and Hamas, to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Addressing a group of Palestinian-terrorist supporters in front of the White house in 2000, Alamoudi acknowledged, “I have been labeled…as being a supporter of Hamas. Anybody supporters of Hamas here…We are all supporters of Hamas...I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah.” -----------.Lobby for Terror Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/28/04 | Thomas Ryan
and?
Although al-Arian is the founder of the NCPPF, the current executive director is Kit Gage. Aside from her work for NCPPF, Gage is a longtime legal advocate for the proletariat, and has served as the Executive Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG).-----------.Lobby for Terror Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/28/04 | Thomas Ryan
Hmmm. Funny how I encountered none of this from the media I searched. Excellent job, Piasa!