The Preemptive Prosecution of the NATO 5
Two men were charged with terrorism-related charges on May 20, bringing the number of men who have been accused of planning “terrorism” against the NATO summit up to five people. The authorities claim their cases have no connection to the first three men, who were charged with plotting terrorism on May 19. However, attorneys for the men, who are the first to be charged with terrorism under Illinois state law, consider them to be connected because there were two individual infiltrators involved – “Mo” and “Gloves,” who helped the FBI, Secret Service and Chicago police ultimately make arrests of these people.
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The involvement of infiltrators has led the attorneys to suspect that the FBI, Secret Service and Chicago police department were all involved in an entrapment scheme. Michael Deutsch, lawyer for Church, believes the infiltrators met up with Betterly, Chase, and Church at the May Day demonstration in Chicago. He believes these infiltrators then went about trying to convince the three men to engage in a terror plot against the NATO summit. When they failed, the infiltrators planted materials for the authorities to find when they raided the apartment, making this case “worse than entrapment.”
The alleged plot hangs on the fact that Betterly, Chase and Church allegedly went to a BP gas station for gasoline that could be used in the production of “Molotov cocktails.” However, the attorneys for the three men have been shown no evidence of any “Molotov cocktails.” Instead, it appears the FBI, Secret Service and Chicago police want to claim a home-brewing beer kit could have been used to produce “Molotov cocktails” and, therefore, these men are “terrorists.”
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The reality is that once the State gets a person and attaches a terrorist indictment to their name there is little chance that person will have be able to go about their business as a normal person again. There is little chance that person won’t do some time or be convicted of some charge, whether it be a lesser charge like a misdemeanor. That person is guaranteed to move on after the fact with a criminal record that is all a result of being involved in a movement that promotes ideals that are deemed despicable by the State.
Long but good food for thought: http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/05/21/the-preemptive-prosecution-of-the-nato-5/
Grains of salt....
With their nebulous definitions of terrorist and anarchist, the PTB could probably twist what people post into some charge if they were caught protesting.
Even with a squeaky clean record, you could be disappeared for who knows how long. And make no mistake about it, if you are kept awake and hammered long enough, you would confess to kidnapping Judge Crater.
Dissent in this country now equals anti-American in many minds.
Well, they can BITE ME! The Founding Fathers are spinning fast enough in their graves to launch themselves out of the ground. Zombie Founding Fathers. It may come to that in this surreal land.
