Wednesday night’s bizarre warrantless raid on an apartment building in Chicago and the rounding up of a number of “suspected protesters” took another turn for the odd today, when officials revealed that three of the captives are now being charged with terrorism.
The new charges, which took over two days to actually be revealed, are related to the seizure of beer-making material in the apartment building. Prosecutors now say that the empty bottles were going to be filled with gasoline and used as Molotov cocktails.
Michael Deutsch, the lawyer for the three detainees, says that they were all non-violent protesters and that of the people “arrested” that night (most of whom were released without charges) two were actually undercover police there to “egg on” the protesters to move from non-violent to violent action.
“We believe it is a set-up, an entrapment to the highest degree … to discredit the protesters who have come here to non-violently protest,” Deutsch added. The prosecutors insisted that all three were “anarchists” and “domestic terrorists.”
The National Lawyers Guild, which initially brought the raid and detentions to public attention, says that the three “terrorists” were in a car pulled over last week, and posted a video online of Chicago police harassing them about their planned protests. Police threatened to “beat their white ass” during the video, and vowed to “find them” at the protests. Police say that stop was “unrelated” to the sudden terrorism charges.
Iran syndrome — Guilty intent
Everything is OK folks, its only a misunderstanding, just as soon as the protesters can prove that their intent was not to make Molotov cocktails, indefinite detention will not be imposed.
The police state accelerates at an alarming rate…
So when is howard dean going to be arrested for schilling for mek?
we know who the terrorists are…… and it ain't kids in cars….!!!!!!!!!! It's mostly gov. goons with guns…….
"Two of those arrested were police agents" You can pretty well bet that about 10% of the 'protesters' at such a high-security event will be police agents or informants, some of them to stir up trouble to discredit the protest.
Basically what I see here is, the government has people EVERYWHERE. Remember the Michigan "militia" that was egged on by an undercover agent and the charges were thrown out? Or how about the undercover agents selling the would be Times Square bomber the "equipment" he needed?
If people knew the truth about the Hutaree Militia prosecutions they would never believe another word uttered by law enforcement. Let me just tell you this. The prosecutions ended when the jury started laughing at the FBI and the prosecutor. It was such a farce that the people charged knew they were going to be let free once the jurors started laughing out loud. The FBI along with the Chicago police executed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark under the auspices of COINTELPRO. The FBI tortured and murdered Kenneth Trentadue as part of Operation PATCON as they also lost control of a 5000 lb bomb as they lost control of 2000 assault rifles they gave to drug gangs. The FBI is the terrorist organization and I beseech every American to Google "Operation PATCON Trentdue". This is another law enforcement fiasco to justify political oppression.
No comment, better keep my mouth shut or else?
U.S. Constitution — Only for slave owners and slave drivers
Do these protesters own property? No, and that is a real problem, that is why bond was set at $1.5 million each which requires them to come up with $150,000 cash each.