🚀 go-pugleaf

and had been in prison
:   longer than most murderers.
:
:
:   6/10/97 MSNBC: Mr. Pratt has been freed over the U.S. Attorney's
:   objections. His first minutes of freedom were spent with his
:   94-year-old mother.
:
:   Court TV:
:
:        Judge Dickey overturned the conviction last month, ruling that
:   prosecutors failed to tell the defense that the key witness against
:   Pratt was an infiltrator and paid informant for the FBI and police.
:   *** This primary "witness" had claimed Pratt confessed!!! ***
:   
:        "It's madness in there," Pratt said after walking out of jail
:   on $25,000 bail. "You have political prisoners on top of political
:   prisoners. I'm only one of a great many that should be exposed,
:   should be addressed."
:
:   The same judge who presided over Pratt's original trial set him free.
:   Johnny Cochran said Pratt spent the first eight years of his sentence
:   in solitary confinement.

That's a long time to sit in jail just because the FBI didn't want to
reveal its monitoring operations, isn't it? It's 1997 now: same as it
ever was. And his imprisonment had the same slimy quality as the vicious
attack on Qubilah Shabazz, whom the government at first claimed they
"had enough on her to put her away for 90 years".


And just how do domestic civil rights organizations get labelled terrorist
or under the influence of foreign agents? Why was Qubilah Shabazz's father
considered a terrorist?

:   "Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency"
:   by Stephen F. Knott, 1996, ISBN 0-19-510098-0
:   
:   Both presidents Johnson and Nixon had been convinced that Communist
:   nations were bankrolling or directing the antiwar movement and had
:   ordered investigations into this possibility.
:   
:   The CIA's investigations, which included operation CHAOS, found no
:   evidence of external control or funding of the antiwar