Officially Insane: Peacebuilding is Illegal

By Robert Fischer | Published: July 10, 2010

This is officially insane.

In Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Supreme Court has ruled that is it illegal to do peace-building efforts with terrorist groups—y’know, nasty things like “training PKK members to use international law to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri Lanka”. Y’know, stuff that actually undercuts the divide which leads to desperate people feeling like they have no choice but violence.

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  • http://www.robertcfischer.com Robert Fischer

    Probably the most depressing line is this one: “Providing material support
    in any form would also undermine cooperative international efforts to
    prevent terrorism and strain the United States’ relationships with its
    allies” In and of itself, that’s not so bad—but the implied argument is that the Supreme Court should be ruling not on what is right or wrong, or even on what is legal and illegal, but on what might “strain the United States’ relationships with its allies”. Apparently the Supreme Court is a part of the diplomatic wing of the United States.

  • Leaflord

    What the hell? Branding every insurgent as terrorist was bad enough, this is worse

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