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Terror-finance rulings the Supremes must strike down, despite Biden's pleas
[NYPOST] The Supreme Court...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... is set to decide if it will consider two important terror-financing cases centering on the ability of Americans who have been harmed in terrorist attacks to seek redress against financial institutions that knowingly funnel money to fronts for terrorist organizations such as Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,. But the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)  ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...has urged the justices to let lower court rulings stand in Weiss v. National Westminster Bank and Strauss v. Credit Lyonnais — and so undercut 25 years of bipartisan consensus that Americans must be able to seek redress against those who knowingly facilitate terrorism. Terrorism, its reach and its sources of funding constitute a central security issue of our times. Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror groups seek to alter the geopolitical calculus of target nations through intimidation, extortion and carnage to rain destruction on the innocent. They also use purported charities to finance their networks and to recruit personnel to carry out terror operations. Why is the Biden administration intent on accommodating this deceit? Knowingly giving support to a foreign terrorist organization has been a federal crime since 1996. More, Congress has recognized that terror groups often hide their intent, using charitable fundraising to help finance slaughter, so such "charities" are inexorably entwined with their terrorist elements. Four successive administrations have worked to expose these schemes. Yet the US solicitor general’s brief calls this principle into question by suggesting that some support to terrorist groups might back "legitimate activities." This would set an appalling precedent that will help Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other hostile entities that use front charities, and so endanger the safety of Americans abroad. Posted by: Fred 2022-06-14 |
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