FBI Finally Convicts Miami
7, Uh, 6, Um, 5
May 13. 2009
Senator Patrick Leahy (left) and FBI Director Robert Mueller
(right)
The FBI, after trying two million times in court, have
finally convicted the Miami 7, of planning terrorist attacks on
the Miami FBI Office (with its lovely 70’s décor *suppresses
vomit*) and the Sears Tower in Chicago, a building with actual architectural
value. I wrote about the case with skepticism from the beginning, the very first week the story
broke on the news, believing it was a Mickey Mouse case. The Feds
went into court with guns blazing, proverbially speaking, in
trying to lock these guys up. It took three tries to get a
conviction and one member was acquitted anyway.
I thought they would have had a strong case for treason,
due to the members swearing out an oath to Al Qaeda, which would have produced a conviction based on patriotism,
freeing the FBI to fulfill its wish to incarcerate, then deport
them. In closing, I don’t know why they didn’t just send the case
to judge Marcia Cooke from the jump (“judge shopping”), as she’s the
main go to judge for corruption in Miami. You need corruption
rubberstamped; she’s your girl. She threw out a lengthy, credible case with
terrible civil
rights abuses in it, the same day she received it and without
reading it, on the premise pop stars don't break the law.
Marcia G.
Cooke (center)
She was also the judge in the Jose Padilla case,
which has gone down in American and world history in sheer
infamy, due to George W. Bush’s open, criminal defiance of the
Constitution and established U.S. and international law, in
misconduct Cooke went along with and much to her shame. People
all over the internet and in newspapers worldwide, have written
about it in terrible terms.
Padilla had bad ties and did break the law in other misdeeds,
but former president George W. Bush broke the law at great
length, in trying to
apprehend a man and build a case, most people are
skeptical about to this day. It’s amazing to me that a black minority, Cooke, can so smugly,
arrogantly and in xenophobic terms, rule
in favor of terrible, civil rights abusing conduct, happening to other
minorities, violations worthy of the strongest international
condemnation.
I guess her black ancestors flew to America from Africa in
the 1600’s on a commercial airliner, in first class and spent
slavery lounging in a choice suite at the Ritz Carlton. Her conduct, much like the man that installed her, is worthy
of impeachment. World history shall not be kind to either of
you.
STORY SOURCE
Five Convicted in Plot to Blow
Up Sears Tower
May 12, 2009 - MIAMI — After two
mistrials, the case of six Miami men charged with plotting to
blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago as part of an Islamic jihad
ended Tuesday with a mixed verdict. Jurors convicted five defendants —
including the group’s ringleader, Narseal Batiste, who now faces
up to 70 years in prison — and acquitted one. Only Mr. Batiste
was convicted on all four charges in the federal indictment.
The decision was a hard-fought
victory for prosecutors, who had been accused by critics of the
Bush administration of letting politics infect a case that had
begun just a few months before the 2006 midterm elections and
cost $5 million to $10 million. “This was a difficult trial,” the
United States attorney, R. Alexander Acosta, said. “And we thank
all the prosecutors and agents involved, whose efforts resulted
in today’s successful conclusion.” Defense lawyers said they
would petition for a new trial within 30 days.
Some legal scholars said the case
would continue to be viewed as an example of the Bush
administration’s overzealous approach to terrorism prosecutions.
“The past cases ending in hung
juries showed that the Justice Department had trouble matching
the evidence with their rhetoric,” said Jonathan Turley, a
professor at George Washington Law School. Professor Turley
added, “It goes to show that if you try it enough times, you’ll
eventually find a jury that will convict on very little
evidence.”
Michael Tein, who spent five years
working in the United States attorney’s office in Miami, agreed.
“If you sledgehammer the square peg three times, eventually
you’re going to blast it into the round hole,” Mr. Tein said.
“This isn’t a terrorism case; it’s an overcharged gang case.” The verdict did not come without
drama. It took more than two weeks of deliberation and the
replacement of two jurors; one fell ill, another refused to
deliberate because of a falling out with other jurors. On Tuesday morning, the racially
mixed jury of nine women and three men told Judge Joan A. Lenard
that they were still deadlocked on one count and one defendant.
She told them to keep trying…
http://www.nytimes.com
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