Were Black ‘Terrorists’ Entrapped?

And 2006 is 1984.

In today’s post-9/11 environment, Big Brother’s prying eyes peer into your phone records, your Internet conversations and the intimate transactions of your life. And thought crime, by the reckoning of some legal and law enforcement experts, is apparently a punishable offense.

While the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney General’s office touted last week’s FBI bust of the Miami Seven as a significant victory in the war on terror, critics of the government’s methods have suggested the raid was part of a “pre-emptive” criminal justice policy that presumes guilt before the fact.

These same critics have suggested that the Miami Seven, or the Seas of David, as they called themselves, were nothing more than a bunch of loudmouth bozos who went around spouting anti-American rhetoric, and whose plan to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago was hatched and encouraged by an FBI informant posing as an al-Qaida operative.

So now the question becomes, were these men entrapped?

Is dissent a tangible criminal offense?

And if so, where is the hue and cry from the various human and civil rights groups, like the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union?

“There are groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations that recruit over the Internet and talk loudly about taking certain actions,” said former FBI counter-terrorist special agent Tyrone Powers.

“Shouldn’t they be charged under the same statutes as the Miami Seven?”

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