{"id":675282,"date":"2010-02-23T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23154"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:28:16","slug":"does-the-patriot-act-violate-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675282","title":{"rendered":"Does The Patriot Act Violate Free Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do monkeys eat bananas? Come on Supremes, do the right thing. Report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=123993822&#38;ft=1&#38;f=1001\">NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that pits an individual&#8217;s right of free speech and association against a federal law aimed at combating terrorism. At issue is part of the Patriot Act that makes it a crime for an American citizen to engage in peaceful lawful activity on behalf of any group designated as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law makes it a crime to provide material support to any organization designated as a terrorist group by the secretary of state. But the definition of material support includes not just providing weapons or money or bomb-making skills; it includes providing any sort of expert advice, training or personnel \u2014 including advice on how to resolve&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do monkeys eat bananas? Come on Supremes, do the right thing. Report from NPR: The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that pits an individual&#8217;s right of free speech and association against a federal law aimed at combating terrorism. At issue is part of the Patriot Act that makes it a crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PFE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}