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| 'US police aim to intimidate anti-NATO protesters' |
| 2012-05-22 |
| [Iran Press TV] The charges filed to spread "fear and intimidation with would be protesters who want to make a statement about the country and its policies," NLG front man Kris Hermes told Press TV's US Desk on Monday. "We're alarmed by the seriousness of the charges and the possibility that these crimes were manufactured by undercover police or informants," Hermes said. He added that the charges are an "effort to frighten people and to diminish the size of the demonstrations." On Saturday, charges filed against three Occupy activists, Jared Chase, Brent Betterly, and Brian Jacob Church, including possession of explosives or incendiary devices, material support for terrorism, and conspiracy. Two more men were also charged with planning to make explosives to be used during the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... summit. An attorney from the National Lawyers Guild, whose members represented the five men charged in the alleged plots to disrupt the NATO summit, said police are using "preemptive raids meant to intimidate and stifle dissent which is all too common during National Special Security events." The National Lawyers' Guild is a national non-profit legal and political organization comprised of lawyers, legal workers, law students, and jailhouse lawyers. |
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