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On December 4, 2001, the Treasury Department declared HLF a terrorist group, froze its assets, falsely claimed they were used to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas, when, in fact, they provided vital aid to needy, impoverished families in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Bosnia, Albania, Checknya, Turkey, and US cities, HLF explaining:
"We gave:
-- books, not bombs;
-- bread, not bullets;
-- smiles, not scars;
-- toys, not tanks;
-- peace, not terror;
-- liberty, not poverty;
-- hope, not despair;
-- love, not hate; (and)
-- life, not death."
It got its five principles long prison terms, the daughter of former CEO Shukri Abu-Baker, Zaira, interviewed on the Progressive Radio News Hour on June 13, this writer now exchanging emails with her father at Terre Haute federal prison's Communications Management Unit, segregating Muslims from the general prison population, treating them more harshly, no matter that most there are innocent, Shukri one of the most prominent and honorable.
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Press Release on the High Court Decision
On June 21, CCR headlined "Supreme Court Ruling Criminalizes Speech in Material Support Law Case," saying:
In Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case against the Patriot Act, supporting free speech rights over bogus national security concerns, the Court ruling criminalizes "many groups and individuals providing peaceful advocacy....including President Carter for training all parties in fair election practices in Lebanon." He submitted an amicus brief opposing Holder's position.
Initiated in 1998, plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of laws making it a crime to provide "material support" to designated terrorist groups, CCR's Senior Attorney Shayana Kadidal explaining that:
