Free the Liberty City 7!

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December 11, 2007

The jury is still deadlocked on all 7 men on all 4 counts of terrorism related conspiracy charges and the judge is determined to have them fight it out. The U.S. does not want it to be a mistrial.

December 10, 2007

As of Monday, the jury in the LC7 case is still deadlocked on all four counts of conspiracy on all men. The judge told them to go back and continue to deliberate. The jury has not moved since Thursday.

December 8, 2007

The Liberty City 7 (LC7) case has been in the hands of the jury since last Monday, December 3rd. The Jury's deliberation came to a deadlock on Thursday. They have not been able to move since.

The judge instructed them to go back and discuss it some more and come up with a verdict. The judge did not give a time frame for the deadlock to end or for the jurors' deliberation to produce a verdict. They will reconvene on Monday, December 10th in an attempt to come out of the deadlock state.

If they stay in this stalemate for too long it will be considered a mistrial and they will have to do the trial over with a new jury.

Background

The Liberty City 7 (LC7) are seven Africans that were kidnapped and detained by the FBI and labeled terrorists on June 22, 2006. They are being held hostage on four counts of conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government.

These Africans who could not pay their utility bills and sometimes even rent, lived in Liberty City Miami, the poorest community in Miami and possibly the country. The LC7 were attempting to address the conditions with which they were faced in Liberty City. They were family men with a struggling construction company that could not even pay their employees. The men had to sleep on the floor of the building they were renovating into a church for Liberty City.

The U.S. government put two Arab agent provocateurs into the men's religious group and manufactured a terrorist case. The provocateurs, guided by the FBI, told the LC7 that they would give them $50,000 to blow up federal buildings. The 7 Africans did not know anything about explosives or ever attempted to learn anything about them. The agent provocateurs said that they could bring in an explosive specialist and an Al Queda member to assist. The Al Queda member was one of the FBI agent provocateurs.

The U.S. gave the men $1,000 on one occasion and $3,500 on another occasion to persuade them to go along with the government plans. They explained to these seven Africans trapped in poverty that this money was merely pocket change for their cooperation.

The provocateurs on one occasion struggled with them for a month to take pictures of an FBI building in downtown Miami. The U.S. bought them boots and continued to insist that the money that they received at this point was just pocket change. When the men decided to take the the pictures the FBI had to buy the camera because the men were broke. A few days after the pictures were taken Narseal the leader of the group pawned the camera in order to feed his four children. The pictures are the government's main evidence, even though the U.S. bought the camera. This case was orchestrated by the U.S. government.

Imperialism is in a crisis and they are turning this so called "war on terror" into the African Community. The U.S. assumed that they would be able to isolate these seven impoverished Africans from the rest of the world and set them up like they have done to Africans for centuries. This government has committed crimes against African people and other poor people in the world and call Africans the criminals. The U.S. terrorizes the African community, yet attempts to call African people terrorists. This is imperialism trying to give the war on terror a black face. This is an attack not only on these seven Africans in Liberty City, but an attack on African people all over the world.

We must FREE the Liberty City 7! and demand reparations for their families.

Get Involved

The oppressed have a right to stand up for control of their lives and resources. We in the white community have a responsibility to stand with African, Indigenous and all oppressed people of the world.

The Campaign to Free the Liberty City 7 is being led by the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement. InPDUM calls on all lovers of freedom and social justice to unite with the following demands:

1. The immediate release of the Liberty City 7.
2. Reparations to the families of the Liberty 7 for emotional, physical and psychological trauma inflicted by this ordeal.
3. An international press conference held by all major media denouncing all slanderous comments made of the Liberty City 7, including accusations of terrorism and criminals.

For complete campaign information visit http://inpdum.org/campaigns/lc7/

Stay tuned for updates on how you can participate in this campaign!