Yeah. This occurred to me on the way home from work. The guy potentially thinks about fighting the US on foreign soil and then changes his mind, and now he's a terrorist. AND...this is what the government's actually bothering to put into print. Bad. -(The REAL) Tyler Durden

From: Tim May <timcmay@got.net> To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Re: Mike Hawash Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:12:40 -0700

On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 02:09 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

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At 03:10 PM 4/29/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:

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OK, aside from the obvious problems with being held without charge until now, there are some other major issues here.

Apparently, the guy is only being charged with traveling to China in an

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attempt to enter Afghanistan and fight US forces.

According to 1 "informant", who is getting *what* in return?

Buying a parka and flying is not treason. Even trying to enter .af is not illegal. (And congress never did declare war there, did they?) Shooting off guns in a quarry is not illegal. Going to the same church as folks who pled is not illegal.

Clearly, he was given a deal, while in illegal custody, cooperate or we file charges. He didn't, so they did. If they had charges to begin with, they needn't have held him illegally.

He was an illegal combatant because he did not actually enter a country we were not actually at war with, whose government was not actually the force behind the 9/11 attack.

Using the psychics employed by the CIA, America has deduced that he may have been _thinking_ about entering Afghanistan, even though he didn't.

And that's enough for a thoughtcrime conviction in the beknighted states.

The case is so weak he'll hang himself in his jail cell.

--Tim May

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