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Do you think these gangs will disappear once jobs are plentiful, giving them a voice in the community, or providing them with a place for recreation? Well, we already have all that, don’t we? Many feel that lack of education and family issues result these boys to be involved in gangs. For example, Hussain Razeen (Rabarey) of Bosnia, is he uneducated? Many of these boys who we assume grew up in the streets of Male’ have had received opportunities to go abroad for education, to places like Bangalore and Colombo. Only their newly met friends abroad knows what they were really up to when Daddy and Mummy sent them abroad for studies.

Also, just because something is being done in the US, does not make it right or the ‘best practice’. US anti-terror laws have received critcisms from perhaps every single civil rights groups in the world.

The jurors were skeptical about using the terrorism statute to convict Morales until the Judge explained to them that it was intended to convict someone who intimidated or coerced the civilian population.

The statute also contains provisions to charge people with making threats that can be construed as encouraging terrorism and a provision to charge people with aiding and abetting terrorists. Material assistance could be minimal. In the first instance a man has already been charged under the terrorism statute with making threats towards a government employee in upstate New York.