Inventing-Terrorists-study

social hospitality intended to help a DTO by his actions, thegovernment has typically discharged this obligation byclaiming that the defendant had a “radical” ideology and soany social hospitality must have been intended to help a DTO.The implication is unfair, but juries are so willing to convictMuslim defendants that they often ignore the lack of evidenceof any intent to support a DTO. The potential sentences are sodraconian, and juries are so easily manipulated by thegovernment in terrorism cases, that defendants have onoccasion pleaded guilty in flimsy cases rather than face theprospect of many decades in prison. 24Training camps. Many young people desire to serve asprotectors of communities under attack. The U.S. has a longhistory of permitting young Americans to fight againstdictators and tyrants, such as in the Spanish Civil War, wheremany Americans fought against Franco. There is also a longtradition in America of permitting groups like the Ku KluxKlan to hold training camps in rural areas to indoctrinateindividuals and give them firearms training. Such activities areprotected by the First Amendment right to free speech andassociation and by the Second Amendment right to bear arms.The law is clear that as long as these groups, and theindividuals in them, do not discuss specific criminal plans,simply meeting to talk politics generally and to undergogeneral military or other training is not illegal. The line is22