Pre-emptive Prosecutions: Thought Crimes and Other Manufactured Charges
Channel: Coalition for Civil Freedoms
Date: 2011-07-28

Dr. Mel Underbakke of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms summarizes various cases of FBI pre-emptive prosecutions. The presentation was part of a panel discussion on "Resisting Profiling, Preemptive Prosecution and Prisoner Abuse, A citizens hearing to confront repression of human rights and civil liberties by the criminal justice system." The event was July 16, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan (USA). 

The panel presentation focused on how the 'War on Terror' climate and its repressive legal practices in the criminal justice system have affected civil liberties and human rights of Arab, Muslim, African American, South Asian, and all immigrant communities and the broader social justice movement.