21. See id. at 1362–75 (further discussing the facts of the case).
22. 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671–2680 (1949) (current version at 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671–2680 (2004)).
23. See Socialist Workers Party, 642 F. Supp. at 1364 (detailing the ruling that followed).
24. Id. at 1364.
25. See id. at 1364–75 (discussing the court’s findings about the SWP).
26. Id. at 1373.
27. Id. at 1375.
28. According to the court, the FBI’s investigation of the SWP started with a series of directives issued by President Roosevelt to J. Edgar Hoover in 1936. Id. at 1375. In 1941, eighteen SWP leaders were prosecuted under the Smith Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2385 (1948) (current version at 18 U.S.C. § 2385 (2004)), for advocating the overthrow of the United States. Dunne v. United States, 138 F.2d 137 (8th Cir. 1943), cert. denied, 320 U.S. 790 (1944).
29. Socialist Workers Party, 642 F. Supp. at 1380.
30. Id.
31. The true difference between SWP and these groups is shown by the fact that, since 9/11, the Department of Justice has charged over 100 individuals (in over 20 different judicial districts) with crimes directly related to assistance they provided to a number of terrorist groups, including al Qaida, Hamas, and Hizballah. Robert M. Chesney, Terrorism Prosecution Statistics, available at http://www.wfu.edu/~chesner/ NationalSecurityLaw/Prosecution%20Charts/TerrorismProsecutionStatistics.htm (last visited Dec. 3, 2004).
32. See 8 U.S.C. § 1189 (1952) (current version at 8 U.S.C. 1189 (2004). The full list and description of designated foreign terrorist organizations is contained in the annual State Department publication. DEP’T OF STATE, PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM (2003), available at www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/c12108.htm (last visited Dec. 3, 2004).
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