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reorg

(3,317 posts)
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:20 AM Sep 2014

What would you do if you saw a middle eastern person

wearing this symbol:


Flag of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

Would you consider them suspicious of providing "material support or resources" for a terrorist organization?

It is a federal crime to “knowingly provid[e] material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.” 18U.S.C. §2339B(a)(1).

The authority to designate an entity a “foreign terrorist organization” rests with the Secretary of State, and is subject to judicial review.“

[T]he term ‘material support or resources’ means any property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (1 or more individuals who may be or include oneself), and transportation, except medicine or religious materials.” §2339A(b)(1).

...

Among the entities the Secretary of State has designated “foreign terrorist organization[s]” are the Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan (PKK)

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1498.pdf


Side note on the PKK:

2014 action against Islamic State

The PKK engaged Islamic State forces in Syria in mid-July 2014[78] as part of the Syrian Civil War. In August the PKK engaged IS in Northern Iraq and pressured the Government of Turkey to take a stand against IS.[79][80] PKK forces also helped "tens of thousands of Yazidis escape an encircled Mount Sinjar."[81]

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What would you do if you saw a middle eastern person (Original Post) reorg Sep 2014 OP
Oh fer gawd's sake.... hlthe2b Sep 2014 #1
Okay, I'm not terrified reorg Sep 2014 #11
At the moment, I'd see more threat from "him" associating with friends wearing hlthe2b Sep 2014 #12
So you would agree insignia do mean something? reorg Sep 2014 #16
I believe insignia mean little without action--especially in a teen hlthe2b Sep 2014 #17
That would be my first assumption, too reorg Sep 2014 #19
Do you have a point to this thread besides posting bright, pretty pictures and showing you can copy justiceischeap Sep 2014 #2
this is in response to the unbelievable arrogance reorg Sep 2014 #14
Is this going to be a "thing" now? Agschmid Sep 2014 #3
Yes, I think so. sibelian Sep 2014 #5
.....ummmm don't look now but.... alphafemale Sep 2014 #4
So Olive Garden... Agschmid Sep 2014 #7
Carbs....deadly carbs done poorly. alphafemale Sep 2014 #9
Ermagherd I need an elliptical, stat! Agschmid Sep 2014 #10
Yup... deadly deadly carb-pushers! hlthe2b Sep 2014 #13
Olive Garden is the ISIS of Italian food. NuclearDem Sep 2014 #15
I would try to figure out when Texaco changed their color scheme. nt DURHAM D Sep 2014 #6
I doubt I would notice get the red out Sep 2014 #8
Avoid him. That group looks Maoist and they are always fucking tedious. Starry Messenger Sep 2014 #18
LOL Cal Carpenter Sep 2014 #20
:D Starry Messenger Sep 2014 #32
I thought you were going to say "dressed like a cowboy" snooper2 Sep 2014 #21
Smile when you say that. alphafemale Sep 2014 #22
How about a Slavic man sporting one of these? OilemFirchen Sep 2014 #23
I'm not going to play. You forgot to end your post with Serious! hootinholler Sep 2014 #24
You can trust your car to the man who wears the star. GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #25
And give him the keys. Downwinder Sep 2014 #27
I would probably start singing hollysmom Sep 2014 #26
Say hello. Maybe ask him/her how their day is going LanternWaste Sep 2014 #28
I would probably think he supports the Vietnamese soccer team Scootaloo Sep 2014 #29
depends entirely on what the WH says: 2009-11 they said Qaddafi and Assad were reformists MisterP Sep 2014 #30
Walk on by, because I'd have no idea what it was sakabatou Sep 2014 #31

hlthe2b

(102,290 posts)
1. Oh fer gawd's sake....
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:23 AM
Sep 2014


I hope there is a big enough closet for all those terrified of SYMBOLS to hide.

reorg

(3,317 posts)
11. Okay, I'm not terrified
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:37 AM
Sep 2014

but what if one of your kids were socialising with a friend who persistently wears this symbol?

Would you be wondering what it is all about, whether your kids might get into trouble?

In Germany, participating in a PKK demonstration is enough to send you to prison. Perhaps "material support" is more substantial, perhaps not. PKK might not have much of a presence in the US and the example above may seem far-fetched to you (it isn't in Germany), but the PKK is still illegal even in the US.

hlthe2b

(102,290 posts)
12. At the moment, I'd see more threat from "him" associating with friends wearing
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:41 AM
Sep 2014

white supremacist insignias-- and potentially, given the daily carnage, NRA stickers!

After 911, idiots went after turban-wearing sikhs--thinking them Arab Muslims and killing some. This witch-hunt obsession sounds very reminiscent.

reorg

(3,317 posts)
16. So you would agree insignia do mean something?
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:51 AM
Sep 2014

Personally, I would much prefer that the US designate the NRA and white supremacists as terrorists, rather than some other organizations. But I guess that's not very likely to happen any time soon.

hlthe2b

(102,290 posts)
17. I believe insignia mean little without action--especially in a teen
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:54 AM
Sep 2014

who, no doubt, delight in upsetting you and other parents.

reorg

(3,317 posts)
19. That would be my first assumption, too
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 09:00 AM
Sep 2014

but still, I would like to know more about it if someone wearing certain symbols would get into contact with my family or myself.

I have demonstrated side by side with PKK members and shouted their slogans. But I knew what it was all about.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
2. Do you have a point to this thread besides posting bright, pretty pictures and showing you can copy
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:26 AM
Sep 2014

and paste?

Is this in response to the fact that the US is "allying" with PKK to fight IS instead of sending US troops in?

reorg

(3,317 posts)
14. this is in response to the unbelievable arrogance
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:43 AM
Sep 2014

demonstrated by some posters in a similar thread.

The US designate an organization as terrorists, you can get in serious trouble if you provide vaguely defined support, but if members or supporters of such organizations are living in your neighborhood you say: who cares.

The funny side note about so-called terrorist organizations doing exactly what the US was and is trying to do is just that. Adds another layer when meeting someone wearing the symbol: should I report them to the police or should I thank him for sparing us the trouble saving the Yazidis?

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
7. So Olive Garden...
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:33 AM
Sep 2014

Do the grapes mean something or is the whole thing terrifying, I am naive to this claim you make.

get the red out

(13,466 posts)
8. I doubt I would notice
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:33 AM
Sep 2014

I really don't examine people that closely or keep up with designs to be aware of; I'm just not that observant.

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
26. I would probably start singing
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 12:09 PM
Sep 2014

"Oh we're the men of texaco, we work from maine to
mexico,
there's nothing like this texaco of ours.
Our show tonight is powerful, we'll wow you with an hourful,
of howls from a showerful of stars.
We're the merry texaco men, tonight we might be
showmen,
tomorrow we'll be servicing your car."

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
28. Say hello. Maybe ask him/her how their day is going
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 12:17 PM
Sep 2014

Say hello. Maybe ask him/her how their day is going. Not pretend I know enough about anyone to make any rash, irrational presumptions.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
30. depends entirely on what the WH says: 2009-11 they said Qaddafi and Assad were reformists
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 01:05 PM
Sep 2014

on the mend and a Saddam-backed genocidal pseudosocialist death cult on the US and EU terrorist list were really just a crew of nice guys, and we knew it was true because the WH said so
2011-14 they said we need to arm and fund the most ultra-Salafist of ultra-Salafists in order to topple Qaddafi and Assad, and in fact egg them on in their political theology
2014: some ultra-ultra-Salafists that are definitely not connected to the ultra-ultra-Salafists we like and who definitely are not being funded by Riyadh or Doha so stop saying that have machine-gunned a lot of people so we have to fund any Kurd or Shiite
2015: the Yazidis conduct more honor killings than anyone else, the PKK is on everyone's terror list for a reason, and the peshmerga were the ones who mostly did the Armenian Genocide: we need to support the Mahdi against this scourge!
March 2016: Israel killed over 40 Americans and we already opposed them in 1956: we have to fund the Circassians and the Egyptians against this threat!
April 2016: support the glorious Israeli-Druze alliance against the Maronite Axis!

now, I don't see any contradiction in any of the above: how can you say they're flip-flopping if it's always the same guys talking?! only Paulbots, Naderites, and FDR Democrats listen to *what* people say instead of who's saying it! this will be your final and only warning

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