Have You Been to Jail for Justice?
On the flip side of going to jail for something you believe in, Eric Umansky notes that the “poison cell” cited by Colin Powell during his UN act as affiliated to al Qaeda and operating in the UK has been found not guilty “of conspiracy to murder by plotting ricin attacks and, generally speaking, not guilty of conspiracy to do anything.”
Two days after the January 5th search of the Wood Green “poison cell” flat, and well before the outbreak of war with Iraq, the chief scientist advising British anti-terrorism authorities, Martin Pearce — leader of the Biological Weapon Identification Group at Porton Down, had finished lab tests which indicated the ricin finding was a false positive.