planting evidence to sow fear: chicago cops are terrorists

[xchrom]

http://www.nationofchange.org/planting-evidence-sow-fear-chicago-cops-are-terrorists-1338045054

t seems pretty clear by now that the three young “domestic terrorists” arrested by Chicago police in a warrantless house invasion reminiscent of what US military forces are doing on a daily basis in Afghanistan, are the victims of planted evidence -- part of the police-state-style crackdown on anti-NATO protesters in Chicago last week.

The Chicago Police clearly realized that it would be hard to convince a jury that the homemade beer-making equipment in the house was some dreaded bio-terror weapon, so for good measure they apparently dropped off some glass jars with gas in them and tried to make out that the kids were preparing molotov cocktails. That’s the word from National Lawyers Guild attorneys representing the men. They say their clients and others like them coming into Chicago from out of town to join in protests against the NATO summit were “befriended” by police informants and undercover Chicago Police, who then offered to obtain gasoline or explosive materials like toy rocket motors, and who proposed actions like firebombing police stations.

This kind of entrapment and official deceit by police should alarm every American. It’s bad enough when police plant evidence and lie about evidence in order to win convictions, since it means innocent people will be sent to prison or worse. But with the new post 9-11 terrorism laws, like the state terrorism statutes in Illinois being applied in these cases, it becomes far more difficult for a victim of such police and prosecutorial misconduct to challenge the case against her or him. In terror cases, the government can claim “national security” to hide the evidence and even the identity of the witnesses from the defendants and the courts, the jury and the public, and can avoid ever being questioned about it publicly. In a worst case, the federal government doesn’t even need to bring the case to trial. If the victim is accused of being a terrorist, under the latest National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and various executive orders, that person can be locked away indefinitely without trial -- exactly the kind of abuse that led American colonists to rise up against their British colonial overlords 237 years ago.


*** edited because bemildred took me to the woodshed.

[bemildred]

1. "Sew" pants, "Sow" fear.

I know, I know, it's useless.

[xchrom]

3. Lol! Busted. That's what I get for drinking coffee w/ 1 hand

& typing w/ the other.

[jehop61]

2. From the Chicago Tribune

The NATO 3
There's no evidence to show that police are 'terrorizing activists'
May 20, 2012
Inside the Bridgeport apartment, police and prosecutors say, three men who'd traveled to Chicago to protest the NATO summit filled beer bottles with gasoline and talked about how to use them.

"While the Molotov cocktails were being poured, (defendant Brian Church) discussed the NATO summit, the protests and how the Molotov cocktails would be used for violence and intimidating acts of destruction," Assistant State's Attorney Matthew Thrun said in a court document. "At one point, Church asked if others had ever seen a 'cop on fire' and discussed throwing one of the Molotov cocktails into the 9th District police station."



Let's let the courts decide and not some defense lawyer regarding who did what to whom.

[blackspade]

4. Yes, let's let the corrupt judicial system..

try these guys under corrupt terrorism laws using planted and fabricated evidence.
By all means let's totally believe the militarized police that owe nothing to the public and everything to the 1%.