Government alleges terrorists financiers; Courts find otherwise

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"I thought they were not guilty across the board," said the juror, William Neal, a 33-year-old art director from Dallas. The case "was strung together with macaroni noodles. There was so little evidence."

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The Holy Land [Islamic charity] case followed terror-financing trials in Chicago and Florida that also ended without convictions on the major counts.

The government "failed in Chicago, it failed in Florida, it failed in Texas," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- one of those unindicted co-conspirators. "The reason it failed is the government does not have the facts; it has fear."

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My take on it? If you want to know why the administration wants to operate without providing evidence, these cases stand out as being among the reasons why. They simply don't have any evidence. They don't have a case. And it's not like this case is isolated. How many "detainees" have been released from Guantanamo ... because there just wasn't any evidence against them to make any kind of a case?

If an administration can get away with holding people without charges, without presenting evidence before a court of law, without allowing for a legitimate defense, how long will it be before they start locking up Liberal newspaper publishers, war protesters and anyone else that disagrees with this policy or that?

What will you do when they come for you?

Is this what we want for our country?

Edit: A friend points out in comments that a Google of "$380 million dollar contract Halliburton detention camps" makes for interesting reading. Uh ... those detention camps are slated for here in the USA, kids. How are you going to fit in a 6'X9'?

More to the point; will you send me cookies?