Smells Like the Patriot Act in Action
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 03:48PM 
A second mistrial has been declared in the case of the so called Liberty City Terrorist, Narseal Batiste, Stanley Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Patrick Abraham, Lyglenson Lemorin, Rothschild Augustine, and Burson Augustin. The first mistrial came in December of 2007 when a jury deadlocked declaring a mistrial on six of the defendants and actually aquitting one, Lyglenson Lemorin. Mr. Lemorin was totally aquitted but, he is still sitting in prison. Thats right aquitted, but not free. These men have been sitting in prison since June of 2006, been tried twice and the jury has deadlocked twice, the most recent mistrial being declared today.
In June 2006 Narseal Batiste was accused of planning a "Miami Jihad", after meeting with a man of Middle Eastern descent who was in fact an FBI informant that informed them that Mr. Batiste was a real threat. Mind you, these men never aquired weapons of any kind, never actually met with Al-Qaeda members, never had any blueprints of a terrorist nature, and had no explosives, only the word of paid informants with serious credibility issues. Was Mr. Narseal really trying to pull of a terrorist act against the U.S.? Or trying to "gank" some money from men whom he thought were the real deal Al-Qaeda agents? It appears the juries believed he was trying to scam monies to the tune of $50,000 from these informants. Mr. Narseal was a small time contractor that employed young Black men, practiced martial arts with them, conducted prayers with them and may have been submitting some lessons from the Moorish Science Temple's point of view, but terrorist No! Stupid, YES!
Our government is in the process of exercising the rules of engagement of the Patriot Act. Even, when the government loses its case, against the "poor" men of Liberty City, FL or the "rich" in the case of Wesely Snipes they will not relent. They will not concede to the loss and continue to persue efforts for a conviction. Its very difficult to win a trial against the U.S. government, thus in the case where the defendants contend and win their case it seems the government would allow the defendants to walk free. However, government attorneys are reviewing the mistrial to consider trying these men a THIRD time, probably to force a conviction. Just as they are about to stick Wesley Snipes with a maximum three year sentence and a $5 million dollar fine for his conviction of failing to pay taxes. Remember he beat all the felony charges sought against him by the Federal government this last February.
Reader Comments (3)
Ensayn1 this is just insane. The Patriot Act needs to be abolished or rewritten.
However, the Wesley "I hate Black women" Snipes situation is somewhat different. I've never understood these tax resisters. Do they really think that "Original Gangter" Uncle Sam is going to let them mess with his money? It seems incredibly naive. Especially for any Black person to engage in this & expect it to work. Why not either hire tax professionals to find viable offshore tax shelters. Or become a citizen of a country that has much more favorable tax laws.
Peace.
@Khadija, You are right. I have talked with brothas that know and understand the tax laws are legal but far from lawful and this is where they make the attempt to "demonstrate" the laws accordingly. However, this beast will change and rechange laws and contracts in order to continue the suppression of us all, therefore they will not win against it.
You spoke the pure truth when you said "... become a citizen of a country that has much more favorable tax laws."
Queens, thanks for passing by.