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Mistrial In The Governments Fake Terrorism Case
April 17th, 2008
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Deadlocked jury forces 2nd mistrial in Miami terrorism
By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer Wed Apr 16, 6:06 PM ET
MIAMI - The second trial of six men accused of plotting attacks on Chicago’s Sears Tower and FBI offices ended with a second hung jury Wednesday, an embarrassing blow to a case the Bush administration had cited as an example of nipping a devastating terrorist attack in the bud.
U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard declared a mistrial when jurors reported they were deadlocked after 13 days of deliberations in the case of the so-called “Liberty City Seven.”
The first trial ended in December in a hung jury for the same six defendants and the acquittal of a seventh. Lenard set an April 23 hearing where federal prosecutors say they will announce whether they will pursue another trial.
“There’s no way to spin this other than to say this is another stunning defeat for the government,” said Matthew Orwig, former U.S. attorney in Texas who served on a Justice Department terrorism and national security panel.
The defendants were arrested in a June 2006 operation hailed by the Bush administration as a prime example of the post-Sept. 11 strategy of preventing terrorism plots in the earliest possible stages. Yet there was no evidence the group ever acquired explosives or took concrete steps toward staging the attacks; they did have a handgun and a few machetes.
What the fuck! They’re going to take down the Sears Tower with a pistol and some long knives?
See, I and many other Black folks suspected that this was bullshit from day one. These guys seem like some brothers trying to do some good in the hood, and because they’re Black militant minded, the government simply went cointellpro on them just like J. Edgar Hoover did the Panthers.
They didn’t like these brothers politics so they used them to score political points in their “tough on terrorism” game. They’re not securing our ports, securing the border, scanning cargo that goes on planes, or doing any real national security; nor have they captured Osama Bin Laden, so instead they went and captured some boys in the hood for PR.
Now true enough, these guys were flirting with some government informant claiming to be Al Qeada; but he waved 50,000 dollars in their faces. You might not be willing to blow up a building, but someone starts throwing around 50 long your likely to at least talk to them and see if there’s something you can do to make some money.
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