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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; terrorism</title>
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		<title>A “SLIPPERY SLOPE” TO COMBAT HOMEGROWN TERRORISM</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/12/14/a-%e2%80%9cslippery-slope%e2%80%9d-to-combat-homegrown-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, the term “Jihadist” has become a commonly used term in today’s political lexicon.  In a Congressional Research Service (“CRS”) report titled “American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat” and issued on November 15, 2011, the report’s author Jerome P. Bjelopera said the term “homegrown jihadist” describes “terrorist activity or plots perpetrated within the United States or abroad by American citizens, legal permanent residents, or visitors radicalized within the United States.” The analyst for the CRS in organized crime and terrorism said the term “jihadist” describes “radicalized individuals using Islam as an ideological and/or religious justification for their belief in the establishment of global caliphate, or jurisdiction governed by a Muslim civil and religious leader known as a caliph.”]]></description>
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		<title>UNDER SIEGE-A SOCIETY CONSUMED BY FEAR</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/04/17/under-siege-a-society-consumed-by-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guilt by Association: Politically Inspired Fear of Muslims Continues to Infect Politics, Law Enforcement Investigations and Potential Jurors

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The month of March was saturated with state and national news events which seem to underscore an unfortunate point about Texas and America: we are a society under siege from fear of those we do not understand and, therefore, do not trust. The Ides of March began when New York’s Republican Congressman Rep. Peter King decided to conduct hearings on the threat of “radical Islam” in America. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee defended his congressional inquiry into the “role” the “American Muslim community” has played in what’s become known as “homegrown terrorism.”]]></description>
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		<title>BOTH TERROR AND AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM ON TRIAL</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/02/both-terror-and-american-legal-system-on-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/02/both-terror-and-american-legal-system-on-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suspected Terrorists should be Transferred to Civilian Custody and Processed in the Criminal Justice System

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was involved in the two bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 which killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. To what extent we do not know. The final verdict is mixed on that issue. What we do know is that the New York Times reported Ghailani was captured in Pakistan in 2004 where he was held in one of the CIA’s “secret prisons” for most of the next five years. He was subjected to repeated interrogations and torture during that period before he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to his attorneys. The Obama administration elected to use the Ghailani case as a test run for its policy that terrorists should be tried in civilian courts rather than before military tribunals (here, here and here). Ghailani was then indicted by a New York federal grand jury on 285 terrorism-related counts, including conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and murder in connection with the embassy bombings, and thereafter transferred from military custody to civilian custody.]]></description>
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		<title>DR AAFIA SIDDIQUI-THE PUNISHMENT DOES NOT FIT THE CRIME</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/09/30/dr-aafia-siddiqui-the-punishment-does-not-fit-the-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/09/30/dr-aafia-siddiqui-the-punishment-does-not-fit-the-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[86 Year Federal Sentence Handed to the Gray Lady of Bagram Greater Than Necessary, Cruel and Unusual

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Billy Sinclair

Depending on who you believe, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is either an American-educated Pakistani neuroscientist kidnapped in Pakistan in 2003 and tortured by Americans in the infamous Bagram prison in Afghanistan over the next four years or she is a captured al Qaeda terrorist who tried to kill six American military personnel in Ghazni, Afghanistan in 2008. Whichever she is, she did not deserve the 86 year sentence U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman imposed on her on September 23, 2010 because she posed a threat of “recidivism.”]]></description>
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		<title>TERRORISM LAW HELD CONSTITUTIONAL</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/06/25/terrorism-law-held-constitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/06/25/terrorism-law-held-constitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Material Support of Foreign Terrorist Organizations vs. Freedom of Speech and Association

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Founded in 1974, the Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan (PKK) was established as a Marxist-Leninist insurgent group composed of Turkish Kurds who formed to seek Kurdish independence from Turkey.  By the late 1990s the group had had morphed from a rural-based insurgent group into a full-fledged terrorist organization, sometimes using suicide bombings on civilian targets.]]></description>
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		<title>THE CONTINUED ASSAULT ON MIRANDA</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/06/01/the-continued-assault-on-miranda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/06/01/the-continued-assault-on-miranda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abandoning Miranda in Terrorism Cases Contrary to Constitution and Beginning of Slippery Slope towards Neo-Con Police State

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The United States Supreme Court in 1966 handed down Miranda v. Arizonawhich mandated to every law enforcement agency in this country that they advise all criminal suspects their right to silence; that anything they say can and may be used against them in a court of law; and that they have a right to an attorney. Findlaw columnist and former White House counsel John Dean has written two (here and here) recent columns in response to comments made by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on May 9, 2010 on several Sunday morning news/talk shows that the “Miranda warnings” given to terror suspects should perhaps be modified. Dean warned the Obama administration that, if the Holder comments represented possible “new policy,” it is navigating down a constitutional “slippery slope” by “messing with Miranda rights to fight terrorism.”]]></description>
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		<title>FBI STEPS UP INQUISITION AGAINST MUSLIM AMERICAN COMMUNITY</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/05/28/fbi-steps-up-inquisition-against-muslim-american-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/05/28/fbi-steps-up-inquisition-against-muslim-american-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 05:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Know Your Legal Rights Before Talking to the FBI

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The Fort Hood shooting massacre last year, the Christmas day bombing attempt, and the Times Square car bombing attempt have prompted the FBI to again increase its surveillance of the Muslim American community in this country. Muslim Advocates recently issued a “community alert” informing all Muslim Americans, but especially those from Pakistan and South Asia, that the FBI may be contacting them for information and advice in “addressing violent extremism.” Muslim Advocates was so concerned that it offered a free webinar about how Muslims can freely and safely work with law enforcement.]]></description>
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		<title>OBAMA and MCCAIN: FORMER PRESIDENTIAL RIVALS EMBRACE TORTURE AND ASSASSINATION</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/26/obama-and-mccain-former-presidential-rivals-embrace-torture-and-assassination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/26/obama-and-mccain-former-presidential-rivals-embrace-torture-and-assassination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing Bush’s War on Terror, Obama Continues Policy of Unfettered Presidential Power to Assassinate Americans Abroad and McCain Sponsorsthe Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Sen. John McCain was once an honorable man, a respected “war hero,” and a “maverick” politician who stood on principle before political expediency. In 2000 the Arizona senator waged a “maverick” campaign for the Republican presidential nomination from inside his Straight Talk Express bus and stunned the nation with a convincing victory over heavily favorite Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary. He became an instant media “darling” who suddenly had the respect and admiration of most moderate Republicans and independents. The Vietnam “war hero” had taken on the Republican Party establishment and won.]]></description>
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		<title>ARE WE ALL POTENTIAL JIHADISTS?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/18/are-we-all-potential-jihadists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/18/are-we-all-potential-jihadists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arrest of “Jihad Jane” Adds Fuel to Fight Against Racial Profiling

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Leonard Pitts is an excellent columnist. He recently wrote a piece about Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania housewife turned Islamic jihadist, whose arrest made it abundantly clear why airport security is not only necessary but essential. Whether conscious or not, most Americans believe “terrorists” can be easily profiled by their physical appearance,” unusual” accents, the clothes they wear, or the facial hair they sport. “Terrorists” are not white, blond, and mainstream in dress and mannerisms. American media has convinced us that real terrorists are either bearded Arabs or dark-skinned Africans who dress like Muslims.]]></description>
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		<title>BAD MOON ON THE RISE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/14/bad-moon-on-the-rise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/14/bad-moon-on-the-rise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep America Safe: Right Wing Fanatics Attack Lawyers, Constitution, and Fundamental Right to Legal Representation

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Every major movement or cause throughout this nation’s history which sought constitutional protections for those the government had denied, from racial minorities ostracized by segregationists laws to those persecuted for their religious beliefs, was led by lawyers. Our fundamental notions of social justice, which are grounded in this nation’s Bill of Rights and in Federal and state constitutions form the original colonies, exist because of the courage of lawyers to form, frame and preserve those notions. Lawyers have always borne the brunt of criticism from political conservatives who really believe in many respects that our government should be run as a totalitarian state like fascism. We saw this tragic reality when the Klu Klux Klan was once one of the most powerful political forces in this country, when McCarthyism’s “guilt by association” became the rule of law, and when segregationists labeled civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King “agents of communism.” It was lawyers who led the way in bringing about an end to the underlying fanatical political ideology that created and sustained the government-sponsored repression of social justice during each of these dark moments in our nation’s history.]]></description>
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