current law, it seems, the right to make profits is more sacrosanct than the right to petition for peace, and the need to placate American businesses more compelling than the need to provide food and shelter to earthquake victims and war refugees." The linguist Noam Chomsky criticized the decision as an issue of freedom of speech and stated that it was "the first major attack on freedom of speech in the United States since the notorious Smith Act back around 1940." He also stated that it had troubling legal implications since Humanitarian Law Project gave out advice to PKK to urge the group to pursue nonviolence. The magazine Mother Jones stated that "the Supreme Court ruled that even protected speech can be a criminal act if it occurs at the direction of a terrorist organization." It went on to say that people "could be convicted of materially supporting terrorism merely for translating a document or putting an extremist video online, depending on [their] intentions." Representatives of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement stated that the ruling would probably not affect its operations or its relationship with the US government. Implementation In September 2010, the FBI raided activists in Minneapolis and Chicago; seized computers, cellphones and files; and issued subpoenas to some targeted individuals to appear before a federal grand jury. The FBI agents were seeking evidence of ties to groups deemed by the US government to be foreign terrorist organizations, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Attorneys linked the raids to the Holder decision. See also Anti-terrorism legislation Freedom of speech in the United States Incitement to terrorism List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 561 References Further reading External links The Supreme Court goes too far in the name of fighting terrorism (Washington Post) What Counts as Abetting Terrorists? (NYT) Andrew F. March, "A Dangerous Mind?" New York Times Sunday Review, April 22, 2012 2010 in United States case law Patriot Act United States Supreme Court cases United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court Void for vagueness case law