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Liberty City 7 Trial: A Foretaste of Things to Come
by Mel Reeves
Monday, Mar. 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM
The U.S. government reached deep into an impoverished neighborhood of Miami to find seven Black faces to attach to the bogus "war on terror." The Liberty City 7 - unemployed, semi-employed and sometimes homeless - were the most unlikely subjects imaginable to entrap as terrorists "prepared to wage a full ground war against the US."
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Nevertheless, with the help of two well-paid Arab agents, the feds attempted to construct out of whole cloth a Black conspiracy to fight Al Qaeda's war on U.S. soil. A Miami jury didn't buy it, resulting in a mistrial in six cases and outright acquittal in the seventh. But so great is the Bush regime's need for internal "enemies" to validate its assault on the rule of law at home and abroad, the feds insist on pushing for another trial. As always, Blacks are the "usual suspects," even when no crime has occurred.
* Read the full article "Liberty City 7 Trial: A Foretaste of Things to Come" by Mel Reeves at http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=479&Itemid=45
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