OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: My Tax Dollars Are Supporting a Terrorist Organization

Terrorism is the systematic use, or threatened use, of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious or ideological change.[1][2] Acts of terrorism are not intended to merely victimize or eliminate those who are killed, injured or taken hostage but rather to intimidate and influence the societies to which they belong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/terrorist

Terrorist: One who engages in terrorism, a broad and controversial category of acts, usually involving the use of fear tactics against a population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/terrorist_%28disambiguation%29

On Thursday, September 28, 2001, the Congress of these United States drew another line in the sand, giving the President the power to over-ride Articles I, II, V and VI and Amendments I, IV, V, VI and VIII of the US Constitution if he determines that it is necessary to do so to protect the nation from terrorism, if a person "purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States." Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

Our elected representatives have voted to give the president authority to suspend Habeaus Corpus, to incarcerate without actually being charged of a crime, to authorize torture, and to undermine the Geneva Convention.

My question is whether my tax dollars are supporting a terrorist organization. Would that not be a criminal act?

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