This case is outrageous and relies on the First Amendment to allow a Chicago student to build an 'alternative' ISIS for all his friends to sign on to.
Chicago - A former Chicago college student (click here) was convicted Monday of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group.
Thomas Osadzinski, 22, designed a computer code to help IS bypass programs designed to block the group’s propaganda, prosecutors said. The former DePaul University student, who was born in a Chicago suburb, was living in the city when he was arrested in 2019 during an FBI sting. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
His attorney, Joshua Herman, said during closing arguments that the case centered on the right to free speech and that Osadzinski had the right to watch and share the videos.
“Liking ISIS is not illegal,” Herman said in court....
Actually, it is illegal to like ISIS.
During the height of the Iraq uprising of ISIS (Daesh) any citizen of Western countries were considered enemy combatants. This student is no different than those that sought to support Daesh in leaving their countries and joining with a highly deadly ideology.
We assisted in fighting a war against Daesh that ended their terrorist reign and genocide. There is no way a student or USA citizen that practices genocide and war for an ideology or so called religious fervor, will be allowed to construct outreach for recruitment under any supposedly different ideology.
There is a limit of freedom of speech and this is one of those limits. He is a threat to national security.
November 14, 2015
By Patrick Garrity
When French President Francois Hollande (click here) addressed the nation Saturday in the aftermath of the Paris massacre, he vowed that France "will be unforgiving with the barbarians from Daesh."...
