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Posted on 05/20/2012 9:47:16 AM PDT by caldera599
CHICAGO (AP) — Three activists who travelled to Chicago for a NATO summit were accused Saturday of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets.
But defense lawyers shot back that Chicago police had trumped up the charges to frighten peaceful protesters away, telling a judge it was undercover officers known by the activists as "Mo" and "Gloves" who brought the firebombs to a South Side apartment where the men were arrested.
"This is just propaganda to create a climate of fear," Michael Duetsch said. "My clients came to peacefully protest."
(Excerpt) Read more at officer.com ...
The Feds have been using that tactic for years to catch 'terrorist'.
So the police now have “throw down” Molotov cocktails? Hard to know who to believe in the age of Obama.
They are NATO Activists, not part of the Occupy Wallstreet crowd. I repeat, They are NATO Activists, not part of the Occupy Wallstreet crowd. /s
We’re all terrorists now......
(those guys on 911 have destroyed our country in a way they probably didn’t intend)
Hope Obama continues his capture and release policy. If not I hope these guy’s lawyers are as savvy as the Gitmo lawyers.
I trust these OWS types abotu as far as I can thrown them... and their lawyers even less.
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