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Posted on 05/27/2002 7:03:11 PM PDT by 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.
What a well thought out and thoroughly explained position. I can walk away from this thread more educated than before because Texasforever says it's right on the money...
Billy that is not a conservative position that is an economics position. Yes libertarians like capitalism, that does NOT make them close to conservatives by any means.
Billy that is not a conservative position that is an economics position. Yes libertarians like capitalism, that does NOT make them close to conservatives by any means.
Thank you for speaking truthfully. Conservatives, at least the modern variety like yourself and Cultural Jihad, are not supporters of free market capitalism. As a matter of fact, you are much more enamored of fascist policies advanced by the current administration and as has been exposed in this article, the FBI.
List the "fascist" policies that are unique to this administration.
FBI files motion to dismiss suit, discipline our attorneys for rally speechFriday, May 24 -- In apparent desperation at their losing situation in the case, less than two hours after our annual bombing anniversary rally ended, the FBI lawyers filed a motion asking the court to dismiss our suit with prejudice (meaning it could not be re-filed) and discipline our legal team "for gross misconduct affecting the jury." The FBI motion said jurors left the courthouse just as Tony Serra, using a P.A. system "loudly exclaimed that the assembled crowd ought to 'say a prayer for the jury' so that they would be 'objective' in their deliberations, and also noted that the evidence at trial indicated a deliberate plan by the FBI and the OPD to violate the plaintiffs' constitutional rights. Several jurors slowed and listened to Mr. Serra's presentation." The FBI motion continues: "Plaintiffs' counsel's actions were not accidental, and amount to an effort to influence the jury during their deliberations." KPFA News reporter Bob Stern said he watched the jurors leaving the courthouse, and that they did not slow and listen but promptly left the area as they had been instructed by the judge. There is a back exit on the opposite side of the courthouse from the rally site.
KPFA is a 'progressive' Pacifica radio station in Berkeley. "Progressive' is one of those nonsense words, since both cancer and dementia are said to be 'progressive' at times.
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