Holy Land Foundation Wants Off The Hook

Holy Land Foundation Wants Off The Hook

Remember the judge that made one of the most ignorant rulings that the President has no authority to designate terrorist organizations? Well, of course that activist ruling is now being milked for all its worth by a group accused of just such terrorist affiliations.

A Muslim charity accused of ties to terrorists has asked a federal judge to dismiss many of the charges the U.S. government filed against it after the 2001 terror attacks.

Lawyers for the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development based the request on a ruling last month by a federal judge in Los Angeles, who struck down President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists.

Holy Land’s lawyers argued in their motion, filed Monday in federal district court in Dallas, that a similar order by President Clinton, banning transactions with the militant group Hams, was also unconstitutional.

They said the order was vague and arbitrary, lacking any standards for why a group or individual was labeled a terrorist. They also argued that the order could be enforced in a discriminatory way by police officers and judges.

Lawyers for the now-defunct charity asked the court to dismiss more than two dozen counts of a lengthy indictment. They earlier asked the court to drop other charges.

Holy Land officials have said the group aided hospitals, schools and orphans in the West Bank and Gaza. Federal agents shut down the charity in 2001 after the government accused the group of funneling millions to the Palestinian militant group Hams.

The group and five of its officers are scheduled to go on trial in July in Dallas.

The group’s former chairman, Ghassan Elashi, was sentenced last month to nearly seven years in prison in a separate case for having financial ties to a high-ranking Hams official and making illegal computer exports to countries that support terrorism. A judge allowed Elashi to remain free to help attorneys prepare for the Holy Land trial.

Our judicial branch has lost its mind! Can you believe that a judge convicted their chairman for financing a terrorist organization and then allowed him to remain free to help attorneys defend his organization? Our judicial branch is suicidal! Then we have another judge stating that the President has no authority to label who and who is not a terrorist organization! Of course, the predictable milking of such insane rulings by extremists follows after the pandora’s box has been opened. Our enemy is within and they are using stupid activist judges and lawyers as trojan horses! Wake up America!