FBI objects to the Constitution

Boulder Weekly ^ | 05/2002 | Boulder Weekly

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

When the jury in the Judi Bari trial requested copies of the First and Fourth Amendments this week, the FBI showed its true stripes by objecting. The jury asked for copies of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution to consider during deliberation, but Department of Justice council attorney Joseph Sher and City of Oakland attorney Marie Bee asked the judge not to grant their request.

The judge overruled the motion to oppose and read those amendments to the jury, but did not give the jury an actual copy of those amendments for them to return to the deliberation room.

Why would the FBI, a federal agency governed by the Constitution and its amendments, object to the jury having access to the law of the land? Perhaps because the FBI so often violates the Constitution.

"Their agents obviously haven't read the Constitution, so why would they want anyone else looking at it?" said Darryl Cherney, co-plaintiff in the civil rights lawsuit, now in its sixth week.

Four FBI agents and three Oakland police officers are on trial for allegedly denying equal protection under the law to Bari and Cherney, who were nearly killed when a bomb exploded in Bari's car. The FBI named the two as the primary suspects in the case, failing to follow up on leads and death threats Bari had received prior to the bombing. The lawsuit also alleges the FBI and police used the bombing to begin a smear campaign against Bari and Cherney, characterizing them as terrorists. The two were organizing for Redwood Summer at the time of the bombing.

[Cultural Jihad]

Ho hum. What an ideologue rag you quote from.

[Joe Bonforte]

"Ho hum. What an ideologue rag you quote from."

Absolutely. Those Boulder hippies must be misrepresenting things. After all, we all know what an epitome of perfection the FBI is. They're our knights in shining armor, and they never, ever screw up. Just ask Randy Weaver.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Enlighten me please… I just found this doing a Google Search. I’ve no idea who they are and I offered it up to the masses here for debate.

[Cultural Jihad]

From the same rag:

"Once upon a time, Libertarian philosophy appealed only to anarchists and a minority of disgruntled Goldwater-era conservative Republicans. Not today. The ultra-left wire service AlterNet this week carries a story about the Cato Institute-an ultra-Libertarian think tank. The story warns-mostly through the mouth of an ex-Nader supporter-turned Cato employee-just how appealing the Libertarian philosophy can be to liberals and progressives."

Democrat, Greens, Trotskyite Spartacist League, or Libertarian: They are all moral-liberal humanist ideologues, not conservatives.

[syriacus]

Maybe the Democrats finally brainwashed a member or two of the DOJ who were present at the trial.

After all, it's the Democrats think the Constitution needs to be interpreted for ordinary folks, who can't be trusted to read it correctly by themselves.

[Cultural Jihad]

Who are they? Who knows? It looks like an individual's rag useful only for lining bird cages.

[Kevin Curry]

LOL! Libertarians (especially of the atheist, humanist variety--which is most of them) and socialists are tightly bound allies in the Marxist-Gramscian revolution.

That much is obvious to anyone who has their eyes open.

[jammer]

Once again, you parade your lunacy. Libertarian = Socialist? What could be farther from the truth? One for no (or little) government. One for government control of the means of production and distribution. You are a scoundrel to make a case that you know is preposterous.

[Texasforever]

You are a scoundrel to make a case that you know is preposterous.

Far from preposterous, it is right on the money.

[Avg_Joe_6-pack_Couch_Potatoe]

Every jurist should be given a pocket-size copy of the Constitution before any trial.

Case closed.

[MileHi]

, not conservatives.

Neither are you, you are a jackboot cheerleader. A whore.

[StriperSniper]

Yup.

[Texasforever]

Another post from another authoritarian whore. No difference in you and Germans who cheerleaded Hitler. Pathetic followers.

Yep, go to the line on the left please.

[Cultural Jihad]

There's no need to post personal attacks against anyone, unless you have no argument to make and can only lash out from some deep-seated emotive problem. I haven't followed the Judi Bar case very closely but remember when her car blew up. Many eco-terrorists were pointing fingers at the FBI and at logging interests as the culprit, whereas it is not uncommon for these fringe environuts to be violent. They see their own human family as a cancer upon the body of poor Mother Earth, and they have the gall to call themselves 'humanists.'

[screed]

The judge overruled the motion to oppose and read those amendments to the jury, but did not give the jury an actual copy of those amendments for them to return to the deliberation room.

You are all missing the real mystery here. Where did a California judge even find a copy of the Constitution to read from?