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Sat Mar 2, 2013, 11:50 AM Mar 2013

NATO 3 Case Challenges Constitutionality of State Terrorism Statutes


NATO 3 Case Challenges Constitutionality of State Terrorism Statutes

Friday, 01 March 2013 00:00
By Steve Horn, Truthout | News Analysis


Nine months later and it seems like yesterday - at least for those watching from afar.

On May 16, 2012, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) conducted a violent midnight preemptive raid of an apartment housing 11 activists. Two of them, it would later be exposed, were actually undercover informants working on behalf of the CPD.

Staying in an apartment in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, the activists were in town to protest the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit, held May 20-21.

The military-style raid led to the eventual charging of three of those activists in the Windy City to protest the NATO Summit with conspiracy to commit acts of domestic terrorism and other related charges - under Illinois' terrorism statute - in the form of a legal bail proffer. It was the first time the law - passed in haste by the Illinois legislature after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - had ever been used.

The defendants are now known collectively as the "NATO 3." ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://truth-out.org/news/item/14831-nato-3-case-challenges-constitutionality-of-state-terrorism-statutes



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