[sr4402]

Folks have forgotten what Terrorists are. They are folks who kill civilians. This includes men, women and children just like you and me. If they have been caught, their counterparts want to know how and how to avoid being caught.

They also want sympathy for their cause.

Since they violate the Geneva Convention in all of this, They should be accorded no rights and enjoy the hangmans noose after a military tribunal.

[gwilhelm56]

geez ... in 1942, if you were caught talking to a German Soldier, you would have been hanged or shot.

If I was getting phone calls from someone in a known terrorist area,.. you better HOPE they’re keeping an eye on me and an ear on my phone.

[Vendome]

I am protected under the first ammendment, so long as I have my thumb in an open bullet wound, on said terrorist.

So long as I cause extreme pain and gain useful information it is acceptable.

The only caveat is apparently you cannot feed them chocolate or truffles, that would be violation of federal crime and further subject you to interpol

[Pollster1]

"Can the government forbid you from talking with terrorists? The Supreme Court heard arguments in an antiterrorism case presenting this First Amendment issue. The War on Terror just met the Bill of Rights, and now the justices need to sort them out.

This is a disingenuous way of phrasing the question. It's not about "talking" with the evil terrorists who want to murder or enslave every free person in the world. We talk with terrorists during waterboarding, and that's okay with those in government who support that method of questioning. It's about talking with terrorists to provide support for their evil actions. So the real question is about conspiracy and support for a criminal conspiracy.

[Diogenesis]

"This is the first opportunity that the Supreme Court
will have to put its imprimatur on post-9/11 domestic
counter-terrorism enforcement.
More than anything else, this case represents an opportunity
for the court to declare that all support given to
terrorist groups is fungible."

"Silent enim leges inter arma" - Cicero

[ricks_place]

Obama's United States Solicitor General Elena Kagan argued that the law made it okay to be a member of a designated terror group!

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) makes it a federal felony for any American to provide:

• “training”
• “expert advice"
• "assistance”
• “service”

to any group that the U.S. government designates as a terrorist organization.