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| US Agitators, Caught Playing Footsie With FARC And Hamas, Upset With FBI Investigations |
| 2011-06-14 |
| There is an ongoing nationwide FBI terrorism investigation of prominent peace activists and politically active labor organizers. So far, the investigation has involved subpoenas to 23 people and raids of seven homes last year. Investigations are examining possible "material support" for Colombian and Palestinian groups designated by the U.S. government as terrorists. The agitators, all vocal and visible critics of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and South America, deny any ties to terrorism. They say the government, using its post-9/11 focus on terrorism as a pretext, is targeting them for their socialist and anti-American political views. They are non-violent activists with long careers in teachers unions, union organizers and anti-war and community organizers, according to Michael Deutsch, of the "People's Law Office", a radical Chicago lawyer and part of a legal team defending those who believe they are being targeted by the investigation. Deutsch formerly won a legal settlement for prisoners after their riot in Attica prison of New York resulted in much murder and mayhem. Mr. Deutsch was also a past legal director of the New York based Center for Constitutional Rights. The CCR, founded by communist lawyers Morton Stavis, Ben Smith, Arthur Kinoy, and William Kunstler, have in past defended paramilitary groups as the Baader-Meinhof gang, the Black Liberation Army, the SDS, Black Panthers, and Leonard Peltier. All 23 of the current agitators invoked their right not to testify before a grand jury, defying U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, whose office is leading the investigations. The agitators have formed the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, organized phone banks to flood Attorney General Eric Holder's office and the White House with protest calls, solicited letters from labor unions and faith-based groups and sent delegations to Capitol Hill to gain support from lawmakers. So far, nine members of Congress have written letters to the administration asking questions. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 Nice rewrite, Anonymoose. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-14 23:22 |
| #1 The radical leftists are coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches heading for food. Quick turn the light on and watch them scatter! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-06-14 18:14 |