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Showing posts with label entrapment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entrapment. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

No justice for Muslim Americans

No justice for Muslim Americans


Critics say the US is losing the hearts, minds, and trust of their own people. Particularly, the generation of young Muslim-Americans. Those who hear Washington's promise of building bridges, but say the government's targeted actions of alleged FBI entrapment cases against Muslims, are creating a climate of fear, anger, and resentment from within

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

US faking war on terror

US faking war on terror

The FBI successfully thwarted a terrorist bombing in Portland, OR, after following the suspect for over a year. However, as more of these plots are diffused many people are saying this is entrapment and the government is lying to the American people. In the case of the Muslim teen in Oregon, was this homegrown terror a part of the war on terror?



FBI creating police state

FBI creating police state


Entrapment has become a favorite tool for the FBI; just recently the FBI successfully thwarted a terrorist bombing in Portland, OR, after following the suspect for over a year. However, as these entrapments continue to take place it seems that the US government is simply making up these threats. Former Reagan Administration aide Paul Craig Roberts points out this is all a part of the US government attempting to create a police state to control its citizens.


Sunday, November 21, 2010

Viktor Bout already convicted by US media

Viktor Bout already convicted by US media


Thailand extradited accused Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout to the US to face terrorism charges, siding with Washington in a tug of war with Moscow over whether to send him to stand trial or let him go home. The media has portrayed him as a villain but is he the monster they are making him out to be? Military defense attorney Eric Montalvo says due to the mainstream media coverage already convicting him, it is hard to believe Viktor Bout will receive a fair trial.



Tuesday, November 2, 2010

FBI creates crime, prosecutes innocent

FBI creates crime, prosecutes innocent


The United States government is prosecuting suspected terrorists on the basis of their intentions, not actions. The government calls it pre-emptive prosecution and many argue the FBI is using entrapment techniques to prosecute innocent people. Criminal defense attorney Martin Stolar says that by entrapping these people the US government is politically and criminally wrong!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Bagram prison worse than Guantanamo

Bagram prison worse than Guantanamo


The US military's Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan is hidden behind a wall of secrecy and considered by many to be more questionable than the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Debra Sweet, the director of The World Can't Wait explained that those held at Bagram are unidentified, who they are is not disclosed, and their charges are unknown


US terror: Homegrown entrapment

US terror: Homegrown entrapment


Lawyer Lynne Stewart was arrested by the FBI in 2002 for a press release she wrote for her client, Sheik Abdel Omar Rahman. This came after Stewart signed an agreement to keep information related to Rahman's case from the media. The Justice Department is pushing to have her serve 30 years in prison


"Sad to be a goddamn American today"

"Sad to be a goddamn American today"


The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is suppose to protect citizens from would be crimes. But a recent New York case, known as the Newburgh Four, has many asking if the FBI is leading Americans towards crimes rather than diverting them.



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