Man with Hamas items on computer can be deported

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(02-16) 16:47 PST SAN MATEO -- A Palestinian blocked from joining his family in the Bay Area four years ago after being stopped at San Francisco International Airport with material on the Islamist group Hamas in his computer can be deported as a potential terrorist, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The man's lawyer said, however, that the United States has not yet found a country that will accept him.

Tareq Abufayad, then 24, was returning from college in Egypt to join his family in San Mateo on Feb. 18, 2007, when he was questioned at the airport by a customs agent who said Abufayad had a "confrontational" attitude.

A search of his computer hard drive produced what an agent described as "jihadist materials," including some that referred to Hamas. The group governs Gaza, where Abufayad lived, and the U.S. government considers it a terrorist organization.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/16/BANB1HO1BJ.DTL

[ej510]

1. This is fucking ridiculous.

[alp227]

2. why? if he was confrontational/had hamas stuff on his computer

but TOTALLY not a terrorist

[sofa king]

3. Hamas is a democratically elected political party.

In one of the "librul democracies" that President Obama's predecessor endorsed then disowned and helped dismantle, and is now trying to pretend he supported all along.

You didn't think he stopped at stealing American elections, did you?

Edit: It's fair to add, however, that Hamas did act as a terrorist organization and was elected on the ever popular "walk the Israelis off the plank" plank. You steal a democracy from those guys, you'd best be on your toes.

[Poll_Blind]

4. We pushed hard for Democratic elections and when Hamas won, changed our mind.

:shrug:

PB

[DCKit]

5. By that logic, there are an awful lot of terrorists working at the State Department. nt

[Fokker Trip]

6. The US government is a leading state sponsor of terrorism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state_terrorism

Noam Chomsky also argued that "Washington is the center of global state terrorism and has been for years."<13> Chomsky has charged that the tactics used by agents of the U.S. government and their proxies in their execution of U.S. foreign policy—in such countries as Nicaragua—are a form of terrorism and that the U.S is "a leading terrorist state."<14>

Its the way of criminals to accuse others of the crimes they are guilty of themselves.

Hamas is an elected government of a people under permanent siege.

The "Foreign Terrorism" boogieman must be kept alive at all costs to keep the US population afraid and to feed the MIC.