Weather Underground and Other 60s Radical Groups - History - Excerpt 2 from Law Review Book To be fair, few modern critics suggest that the United States should ignore the threat of international terrorism. They instead focus on the means with which U.S. prosecutors and agents are trying to achieve their new public safety mandate. Like their predecessors of the earlier era, the critics sometimes rely on odd constitutional arguments that courts have no trouble rejecting. These arguments represent the easy lessons of history, in terms of how American courts view political violence. The American judiciary has never accepted the...
