I want y'all to get angry

'My Student, the 'Terrorist'' -The Chronicle of Higher Education.
 (see also, The Muslim Justice Initiative, Educators for Civil Liberties,)

Bit this off a professor's facebook page. It covers the illegal detention and 'trial' of Syed Fahad Hashmi, a CUNY Brooklyn College poli-sci professor's student who was looking to study Islam in global politics in England and become a professor, a Muslim who was extradited to the US from Britain for allegedly aiding Al Qaeda, by allowing an acquaintance, Mohammed Junaid Babar to stay in his London apartment. The luggage (raincoats, waterproof socks, ponchos) later was later delivered by the acquaintance to Al Qaeda. It tells the story of the US media's sychophantic complicity with the government-issued version of events, and the media's silencing of details concerning cases involving suspected Muslim 'terrorists' post-9/11. Legal manoeuvrings like the '1980 Classified Information Procedures Act' (expanded since 9/11, the article explains) and 'material support' ban which, because he let an acquaintance stay in his room, Fahad falls under, allow evidence to be kept classified.
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By the 1990s, with the end of the cold war, and following the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Islamic fundamentalism became the new lurking enemy. The subversion of liberties in what came to be known as the "war on terror" married old practices to new tactics. Political association could now be criminalized through the fearsome-sounding material-support bans instituted under President Clinton (and later expanded under the Patriot Act). The federal government would sponsor bold public indictments but avoid public show trials—the evidence and proceedings largely kept hidden. There would be no mass-based internment, but a broad swath of interrogations and prosecutions aimed at those deemed disloyal. And the politics of fear and patriotic loyalty would keep journalists and many civil-rights organizations silent.
Fahad's due-process rights fell victim to the 1980 Classified Information Procedures Act, which allows evidence to be kept classified. Its use has drastically expanded post-9/11. As a citizen in federal court, Fahad faced evidence he was not allowed to review. Fahad's lawyers went through intensive security clearances to view it—but were not allowed to discuss it with him.
Under material-support bans, all sorts of constitutionally protected activities can be classified as suspect, if not criminal. Material-support charges require no criminal act nor direct contact with terrorists, just the knowing "support" of a foreign terrorist organization. They often focus on small acts and religious and political associations, which take on sinister meaning as ostensible manifestations of forthcoming terrorism.
So-called "jihadist" ideas and membership in radical Islamic political groups thus become indications of "support," rather than constitutionally protected speech and association." [my emphasis]



It's a propaganda crusade that attempts to keep the limping monster of failed wars and US economic and naked force imperialism abroad justified enough domestically; an increasingly untenable position. The hate campaign of 'homeland security,' 'Patriot Act', ect. fueled by fear and actual US domestic terrorism perpetrated by 'our' government which is the denial of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The article cites numerous public figures and legal professionals complicit with torture and the already extensively corrupt incarceration system within the United States. 'Dissent is illegal' is the message for the current 'anti-American' 'enemy,' the Muslim. Like McCarthyism in the US during the 1950s, Mau Mau 'trials' in late colonial Kenya controlled by Britain, and doubtless many other examples, hearsay becomes basis for conviction in these political show-trials, though in their current manifestation, we don't even get to see the trial, just the already undermined reporting of it: 'The federal government would sponsor bold public indictments but avoid public show trials—the evidence and proceedings largely kept hidden. '.  It becomes clear as you read this that the real 'enemy' is informed public discussion of evidence in alleged 'crimes' in a climate of US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and, can I add Libya now? that could possibly lead to public action against the crimes perpetrated by these trial lawyers and judges in homeland security's pocket.