Why are US citizens not allowed to join ISIS?

My guess is that it isn’t about being at war or not, it’s about trying to stop ISIS in general. I remember that the US government has told everyone that they would try to help stop the ISIS, so maybe they are doing what they promised.

Don’t take my word so seriously. It’s just a guess.

@Mimishu1995

Has your government stated any policy or opinion regarding ISIS?

Well, they’ve taken a few heads of US citizens, so maybe the government frowns on that? Or maybe their shooting captives en mass?

@Brian1946 My country has nothing to say about ISIS. People just report news about it from around the world. I don’t know what would happen if someone here joined ISIS but maybe my goverment would do the same.

ISIS is officially listed by the US government as a foreign terrorist organization, and US citizens are prohibited from providing material support to a terrorist organization.

Here is a similar case that has already been resolved with a guilty plea.

Why? Because this is the US, ISIS is those nasty [redacted] [redacted] over there, and they are religious fundamentalist (just not the ones Uncle Sam likes or can manipulate). ~~ If it were the other way around and people wanted to join forces to take ISIS out, Uncle Sam might even give them a jet ticket, even if he did it on the sly. Uncle Sam only does what is good for Uncle Sam no matter how great it appears to help others.

Pretty sure it’s treason. Don’t know that you even have to be at war to be charged with treason. Look at Snowden.

Why? Because the US government thinks of ISIS as an organization of men who behead innocent people, for starters.

The reaction to Isis is severe and exaggerated because commencing with 9/11, fear driven policies have come to dominate decisions in a nation blythely ignorant of the world and smugly convinced that it could do as it pleased without negative repercussions to itself. The gruesome comedy around both Isis and the United States is that the struggle at heart is about ignorance. It’s a battle of ideas, and that fact alone places the United States in its current iteration at a severe disadvantage, because the population collectively is systematically engineered to remain profoundly ignorant of the world and everything in it.
The citizenry is governed by individuals every bit as ignorant as themselves, and thus can be fed any sort of hokum, without fear of contradiction. Isis on the other hand has ignorance, and particularly the ignorance of youth as its mainstay in recruitment and expansion. For the United States, it’s the equivalent of fighting rock n roll.

To give aid and comfort to the known enemy? To be a citizen of the United States and wage war against it at the same time? To be a traitorous spy???

Why not? Fuck’em. That’s why not.

American freedom doesn’t allow you to do whatever you want, including undermining the Nation. If you want to join a terrorist group, you can be arrested. Rico is a bitch.

Those who do, and got overseas, need to be immediately stripped of their citizenship and passport never to return! (The only logical answer. Obama won’t do that)

If I openly declared my intentions to aid an enemy of my state (regardless of official declaration of war) I’d expect to be arrested too.

@Hypocrisy_Central

Frankly, your constant use of “redacted” grows tiresome. Sack up and say what you mean.

@Darth_Algar Frankly, your constant use of “redacted” grows tiresome. Sack up and say what you mean.
I did nit make the rules of free speech around here, to actually use it as you suggest can get you voted off the island…a trap I am not falling for…just fill in what you please.

@stanley… exaggerated?

@Hypocrisy_Central It seems like the NSA could recruit some terminally ill people who would like to have medically assisted suicide but can’t because that is illegal to volunteer to have bombs surgically implanted and set off remotely get some of those free plane rides. What do you think? It sounds cruel, but for some, it might be the way to go.

@Hypocrisy_Central

Were you even trying to make sense with that reply?

^ It is easy enough to understand.