I attended the Uhuru 3 trial yesterday (Thursday, 9/12/2024) at the Tampa Federal Courthouse. I have also attended EVERY day of the Uhuru 3 trial since the beginning on Tuesday (9/3/2024). I also took notes as best I could. I attended the trial of the Uhuru 3 in support of their First Amendment Free Speech Rights. I was there when the jury came out with their verdict yesterday (Thursday, 9/12/2024). For the charge pertaining to being a Foreign Agent - 18 U.S. Code Section 951 - the jury found the Uhuru 3 defendants NOT Guilty, which I was very happy about, because this charge if one is convicted carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. But...for the charge of Conspiracy - 18 U.S. Code Section 371 - to become a Foreign Agent and sow discord in the USA, the jury tragically and wrongfully found the Uhuru 3 and Romaine defendants GUILTY! I thought this was a HORRIBLE, WRONG, and LOUSY decision on the part of the jury since ALL the activities the defendants did fell well within the First Amendment Free Speech Rights! It's obvious the jurors have NO IDEA what is meant by First Amendment Free Speech rights and would not know it if it hit them in their heads! The silver lining is the defendants were found Guilty on the so-called phony crime of "Conspiracy - 18 U.S. Code Section 371 - to become a Foreign Agent and sow discord in the USA" that carries a maximum of 5 years in jail - the lesser of the two phony crimes the defendants were charged with. And... as one or more of the defense attorneys commented in this video: 1) There are NO guidelines as to what the correct sentence should be because this phony Conspiracy charge is RARELY used by the federal government to charge people with. (Note: I heard the judge state also that there are NO sentencing guidelines for this Conspiracy charge that the defendants were found guilty.) 2) The wording of this Conspiracy law is unclear; thus, the reason it is rarely prosecuted. 3) Since this Conspiracy federal statue is RARELY used, there is no precedence to which the judge could go by to place a punishment. Since no real precedence has been set, this might actually work in favor of the defendants, because NO minimum sentencing guidelines have been established. Thus, the judge could theoretically give the defendants a soft punishment like time already served, probation, very small time in jail like one month, etc. In the end, I thought the verdict from the jurors was COMPLETE GARBAGE as this was a CLEAR case of First Amendment that should have been protected. The jurors obviously were ignorant with respect to First Amendment Free Speech rights! I am VERY saddened, angry, and upset that the jury FAILED to do the right thing by FAILING to come to the only correct verdict that should have been made: NOT GUILTY on ALL the charges!
So why don't you explain to us why you're so extremely obsessed and biased in this case? What's your agenda? As you seem to enjoy explaining things to people, maybe that would be a good place to start, your history.
@@bardsamok9221 I'm with you saying extreme and having an agenda, but as much as him seeming to enjoy explaining things to people, what kind of emotion does it take? It's local for him. We can't imagine that. You might.
@@perezfranklin yeah, they only performed what foreign actors wanted. Shame that more of us don’t spend our time in the United States of America pushing narratives from fascist regimes
Take note of that fact. The corporate media LIES to you by omission all. the.time. In court you swear to "tell the truth, the WHOLE truth, and nothing BUT the truth", because anything else is a LIE. And that's what we are getting from the neocon controlled media: Lie after lie after lie after lie.
@@thyownshadow5280 best not to take up with foreign actors that work against the country you live in. Like Trump’s campaign manager Manafort sending rust belt polling data to Konstantin Kilimnik.
@@crushsatan Putin’s relationship with fascists. Like Obama or not, and the failed “Arab Spring” hopes and policies of his, Putin jumped in with Bashar al-Assad to bomb the $HiT out of his opposition. Putin has undermined Democratic democratic governments in Europe to push for more Viktor Orbáns in order to oppose the US and the West. Ukraine is an example of it. That said, I’m not unfamiliar with the long list of horrors the US perpetrated in the name of Democracy
I can't wait until "sowing discord," "interfering with elections" and "conspiring with Russia" is the default charge for anyone suggesting alternative political ideas.
It’s actually to stop you from finding the truth by silencing the uncontrollable speakers. Uncontrolled people are as big a threat to the establishment as the truth itself. Watch the eyebrows shoot up when they hear new ideas or are confronted with their own fallacies. Try bringing up God. They freak out, shut down all outside information, and retreat to their partisan base. They live in TV narratives about country people and illegal foreigners, as if they experienced it. This is a type of slavery that we were warned about in the Bible.
These naïve tools are lucky they got off easy. Extreme progressive algorithms, and the horseshoe concept has the meet up with extreme conservatives. They only add flames to the fire, then cry foul when caught. That said, I’d prefer our government deals directly with the foreign influence issues and doesn’t end up netting Carter page, or these guys.
Because, plainly, Jill Stein doesn't have a chance in hell of winning the election, and even if she won, she would have to face a hostile Congress that would obstruct every single policy initiative she proposed. On the matter of elections, particularly presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections, you do not "vote your conscience." You vote for the least bad option, and then you devote the rest of your available free time to direct action and mutual aid.
I never heard of Jill Stein and I'm watching a lot of American political videos, hours a day. You might think it's a pastiche overview of everything that's happening, but no, I'm serious, I know there's a Libertarian Party, that's it.
How deceived are you? Do you know the language of the Garden of Eden is still being spoken? And please be determined with your own spiritual strength. When the Shroud of Turin is uncovered, a lot of other pagan activity surfaces.
@@johnwattdotca I can only assume that I have also been deceived. I once believed the lies I was told by the state and media, and then I woke up to all the fake reality, but that’s just what they are currently spewing. Now I have to go back and examine everything I have ever been taught. Evolution, science, and history, for example, sure looks like groupthink and narratives. Has anyone ever seen an animal change its species? Evolve a new organ or tissue? Nope. All the science has figured out is how to turn off genes selectively. We have yet to figure out how God made one little protein, much less create life. Yes, Hebrew was given back to Moses, post Babel. Now the Synagogue of Satan flaunts it. If only my spiritual strength was solid.
@@memyselfandi8544 You published a very serious comment. It's a beauty. How's this? All of this technology, from communications to weapons, has evolved before you were born. You can say it's not my fault. It's not about government or corporate lies or fake realities, it's all about what you know as you grow up and what your life is, not what others say it should be. How's this for old man wisdom? When I was in high school I failed grade eleven. I wasn't happy about it. Now, looking back as an old man, an extra year in high school? Priceless.
Thanks for this coverage. It's disappointing Democracy Now hasn't had all the presidential candidates on...specifically Jill & Butch. Is Democracy Now just what our Democracy has now become?
@@johncollier5985 Democracy Now is just another political irony. Such as liberal and conservative, good and evil. Everyday is Opposite Day. The Devil parades around as an angel of light. The Pope pretends to be God.
It’s pretty simple really, they went after them because they were speaking out against the US empire in an organized way that the US hypocritically does not approve of. Basically saying that they’re helping Russia interfere with US election, meanwhile there’s never any mention AIPAC and it’s influence on US elections.
Here in St. Petersburg, Florida Uhuru has a radio station and office on the OTHER side of town. They are gentrifying the living crap out of this area. I wonder if this is the same in other "urban" cities? I think here they are laying the groundwork to gentrify the other side of town....
What will be remembered is that as this chaos was going on, what did Biden/Harris, Macron, Sholz, Starmer do? The square root of nothing. Sorry folks but you're carving your statues in the Hall of Fame🤣
Thanks for the opinion lite, but it would’ve been stronger and more believable if the story included something, anything about the underlying story. Who are they? What are they accused of? What’s the govt say? What do they say? Does the case and its outcome have any relationship to the other big Russian interference story with the huge infiltration and buying of right wing influencers? Wishing for informative journalism again.
Russia will pay you to publish or argue anything that will work in dividing our people, anything that will help Trump, who will give Ukraine to Putin, his master!
This is exactly how the 'mau mau' horrors got started comminist training insurgents to creayte murder, mayhem, sow discord and stir up hatred and violence. I saw it in the 50's living in Kenya !!
So the jury was smart enough not to be thrown off by the Russia assertion, but not bright enough to figure out the conspiracy charge? That’s a pretty bad bit of journalism here.
@@ronstephen-wy4ib journalists shouldn’t be leading their viewers as to what juries do and don’t understand. She’s projecting her reasoning as to why EVERY member of the jury voted that way. As if she was involved with a confused jury unable to sort it out. She doesn’t get to project the thinking of the jury and be taken seriously
@@justinhumphrey1516 oh I never said they should go to prison, I'm as frightened as the commentator about how whatever excuse they used to lock them up will become a default
@@R1SKYB1ZOk...so what exactly are you saying then in the context of this video? Why bring up their goofy lack of self awareness? How is that in any way relevant? You didn't even specify what is it that makes them goofy/lacking in self awareness
now do israel....
I attended the Uhuru 3 trial yesterday (Thursday, 9/12/2024) at the Tampa Federal Courthouse. I have also attended EVERY day of the Uhuru 3 trial since the beginning on Tuesday (9/3/2024). I also took notes as best I could. I attended the trial of the Uhuru 3 in support of their First Amendment Free Speech Rights.
I was there when the jury came out with their verdict yesterday (Thursday, 9/12/2024). For the charge pertaining to being a Foreign Agent - 18 U.S. Code Section 951 - the jury found the Uhuru 3 defendants NOT Guilty, which I was very happy about, because this charge if one is convicted carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
But...for the charge of Conspiracy - 18 U.S. Code Section 371 - to become a Foreign Agent and sow discord in the USA, the jury tragically and wrongfully found the Uhuru 3 and Romaine defendants GUILTY! I thought this was a HORRIBLE, WRONG, and LOUSY decision on the part of the jury since ALL the activities the defendants did fell well within the First Amendment Free Speech Rights! It's obvious the jurors have NO IDEA what is meant by First Amendment Free Speech rights and would not know it if it hit them in their heads!
The silver lining is the defendants were found Guilty on the so-called phony crime of "Conspiracy - 18 U.S. Code Section 371 - to become a Foreign Agent and sow discord in the USA" that carries a maximum of 5 years in jail - the lesser of the two phony crimes the defendants were charged with. And... as one or more of the defense attorneys commented in this video:
1) There are NO guidelines as to what the correct sentence should be because this phony Conspiracy charge is RARELY used by the federal government to charge people with. (Note: I heard the judge state also that there are NO sentencing guidelines for this Conspiracy charge that the defendants were found guilty.)
2) The wording of this Conspiracy law is unclear; thus, the reason it is rarely prosecuted.
3) Since this Conspiracy federal statue is RARELY used, there is no precedence to which the judge could go by to place a punishment. Since no real precedence has been set, this might actually work in favor of the defendants, because NO minimum sentencing guidelines have been established. Thus, the judge could theoretically give the defendants a soft punishment like time already served, probation, very small time in jail like one month, etc.
In the end, I thought the verdict from the jurors was COMPLETE GARBAGE as this was a CLEAR case of First Amendment that should have been protected. The jurors obviously were ignorant with respect to First Amendment Free Speech rights! I am VERY saddened, angry, and upset that the jury FAILED to do the right thing by FAILING to come to the only correct verdict that should have been made: NOT GUILTY on ALL the charges!
So why don't you explain to us why you're so extremely obsessed and biased in this case?
What's your agenda? As you seem to enjoy explaining things to people, maybe that would be a good place to start, your history.
Thank you for following this case as best you could!
Any chance you can republish this without the over-use of upper case, so I can scan it for further publication myself?
@@bardsamok9221 I'm with you saying extreme and having an agenda, but as much as him seeming to enjoy explaining things to people, what kind of emotion does it take? It's local for him. We can't imagine that. You might.
@@perezfranklin yeah, they only performed what foreign actors wanted. Shame that more of us don’t spend our time in the United States of America pushing narratives from fascist regimes
If you are an AIPAC handler then I guess you are not a foreign agent.
@@savithag7616 Just give a little bit to aipac, maybe they won’t notice the other nationalities.
what about aipac 🧐
This is the first I've heard about this
Thanks DN
Ironically Tucker Carson and Kim Iverson were some of the only people covering this. They've been following this story since last year.
Take note of that fact. The corporate media LIES to you by omission all. the.time. In court you swear to "tell the truth, the WHOLE truth, and nothing BUT the truth", because anything else is a LIE. And that's what we are getting from the neocon controlled media: Lie after lie after lie after lie.
Trump got off. Why civilians gotta go to jail
@@thyownshadow5280 Same reason. To divide.
@@thyownshadow5280 best not to take up with foreign actors that work against the country you live in. Like Trump’s campaign manager Manafort sending rust belt polling data to Konstantin Kilimnik.
Trump is innocent
@@jocksharerock7318in what sense does Russia work against America?
@@crushsatan Putin’s relationship with fascists. Like Obama or not, and the failed “Arab Spring” hopes and policies of his, Putin jumped in with Bashar al-Assad to bomb the $HiT out of his opposition. Putin has undermined Democratic democratic governments in Europe to push for more Viktor Orbáns in order to oppose the US and the West. Ukraine is an example of it.
That said, I’m not unfamiliar with the long list of horrors the US perpetrated in the name of Democracy
This is such nonsense. I'm more and more embarrassed every day to be a US citizen
Not nonsense. Sounds serious to me. You must be a Putin MAGA ring kisser.
USA USA USA USA USA!!!111!!! USAAAAAA!!!???
Shills create RUclips accounts.
Enjoy the farm.
Everyone else: *Wake Up*
I looked up your profile and you're not a "US citizen"
@@JoePepe-d7z Our planet. Love it or leave it.
I can't wait until "sowing discord," "interfering with elections" and "conspiring with Russia" is the default charge for anyone suggesting alternative political ideas.
its that or the old go to antisometingism
It’s actually to stop you from finding the truth by silencing the uncontrollable speakers. Uncontrolled people are as big a threat to the establishment as the truth itself. Watch the eyebrows shoot up when they hear new ideas or are confronted with their own fallacies. Try bringing up God. They freak out, shut down all outside information, and retreat to their partisan base. They live in TV narratives about country people and illegal foreigners, as if they experienced it. This is a type of slavery that we were warned about in the Bible.
@@La_Hoja_Verde and you’re spamming the same comment. Shame.
These naïve tools are lucky they got off easy. Extreme progressive algorithms, and the horseshoe concept has the meet up with extreme conservatives. They only add flames to the fire, then cry foul when caught.
That said, I’d prefer our government deals directly with the foreign influence issues and doesn’t end up netting Carter page, or these guys.
@@La_Hoja_Verde in a frank, real, and not so funny manner.
This is Paul Robeson all over again
This set the precedent for prosecuting Israeli conspirators then! Food for thought, spread the word!
Is this COINTELPRO all over again?!
Worse
Where is the coverage of Jill Stein and her vice presidential candidate, Dr. Wade??? Why are you not covering this?
Because, plainly, Jill Stein doesn't have a chance in hell of winning the election, and even if she won, she would have to face a hostile Congress that would obstruct every single policy initiative she proposed. On the matter of elections, particularly presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections, you do not "vote your conscience." You vote for the least bad option, and then you devote the rest of your available free time to direct action and mutual aid.
I never heard of Jill Stein and I'm watching a lot of American political videos, hours a day. You might think it's a pastiche overview of everything that's happening, but no, I'm serious, I know there's a Libertarian Party, that's it.
Ignorance is common in American politics.
The whole world is deceived, not just you.
How deceived are you? Do you know the language of the Garden of Eden is still being spoken? And please be determined with your own spiritual strength. When the Shroud of Turin is uncovered, a lot of other pagan activity surfaces.
@@johnwattdotca I can only assume that I have also been deceived. I once believed the lies I was told by the state and media, and then I woke up to all the fake reality, but that’s just what they are currently spewing. Now I have to go back and examine everything I have ever been taught. Evolution, science, and history, for example, sure looks like groupthink and narratives. Has anyone ever seen an animal change its species? Evolve a new organ or tissue? Nope. All the science has figured out is how to turn off genes selectively. We have yet to figure out how God made one little protein, much less create life. Yes, Hebrew was given back to Moses, post Babel. Now the Synagogue of Satan flaunts it. If only my spiritual strength was solid.
@@johnwattdotca ...Ok now say that again in English this time
@@thesomalistrawhat Maybe it's a good thing you don't understand. I was forth-right.
@@memyselfandi8544 You published a very serious comment. It's a beauty. How's this? All of this technology, from communications to weapons, has evolved before you were born. You can say it's not my fault. It's not about government or corporate lies or fake realities, it's all about what you know as you grow up and what your life is, not what others say it should be. How's this for old man wisdom? When I was in high school I failed grade eleven. I wasn't happy about it. Now, looking back as an old man, an extra year in high school? Priceless.
But Trump is walking around free doing FAR WORSE???
Him and Putin are best friends.Insane.
America and the classics..."Conspiracy"
Question?
Were you both aware of any design flaws of your "lifeboat" before launch?
Do you still trust Boeing?
I been buying furniture from them for years in Philadelphia and when I heard they was closing due to this case I was very upset...I wish them well
UHURU Commrade!
Thanks for this coverage. It's disappointing Democracy Now hasn't had all the presidential candidates on...specifically Jill & Butch. Is Democracy Now just what our Democracy has now become?
You never had a democracy wake up
@@johncollier5985 Democracy Now is just another political irony. Such as liberal and conservative, good and evil. Everyday is Opposite Day. The Devil parades around as an angel of light. The Pope pretends to be God.
I was done with DN years ago, but their pushing the experimental vax was the finally proof that they are totally OWNED by the neocon oligarchy.
I would like to understand this better.
It’s pretty simple really, they went after them because they were speaking out against the US empire in an organized way that the US hypocritically does not approve of.
Basically saying that they’re helping Russia interfere with US election, meanwhile there’s never any mention AIPAC and it’s influence on US elections.
They were getting paid by the Kremlin to push disinformation as part of Putin's extensive anti-democracy information warfare.
Our God Given, Unalienable, Constitutionally Protected Rights and Powers.
thought the word conspiracy now days meant joke or untrue? that's what the media dems and leftist say anyway
Disgusting.
Here in St. Petersburg, Florida Uhuru has a radio station and office on the OTHER side of town. They are gentrifying the living crap out of this area. I wonder if this is the same in other "urban" cities? I think here they are laying the groundwork to gentrify the other side of town....
Uhuru is gentrifying? Or some other “they”?
Why doesn't DN care that Russia has thousands of assets and influencers around the world?
Good afternoon ❤️🇷🇺🇺🇲🦾😇👋
What will be remembered is that as this chaos was going on, what did Biden/Harris, Macron, Sholz, Starmer do? The square root of nothing. Sorry folks but you're carving your statues in the Hall of Fame🤣
Thanks for the opinion lite, but it would’ve been stronger and more believable if the story included something, anything about the underlying story.
Who are they? What are they accused of?
What’s the govt say? What do they say?
Does the case and its outcome have any relationship to the other big Russian interference story with the huge infiltration and buying of right wing influencers?
Wishing for informative journalism again.
Russia will pay you to publish or argue anything that will work in dividing our people, anything that will help Trump, who will give Ukraine to Putin, his master!
I swear dem folk feed off those folk
She is good at spreading fertilizer. Get real.
This is exactly how the 'mau mau' horrors got started comminist training insurgents to creayte murder, mayhem, sow discord and stir up hatred and violence. I saw it in the 50's living in Kenya !!
What you just said is Free speech. And you're not going to jail.
So the jury was smart enough not to be thrown off by the Russia assertion, but not bright enough to figure out the conspiracy charge? That’s a pretty bad bit of journalism here.
Bad jury not bad journalism.
@@ronstephen-wy4ib journalists shouldn’t be leading their viewers as to what juries do and don’t understand. She’s projecting her reasoning as to why EVERY member of the jury voted that way. As if she was involved with a confused jury unable to sort it out. She doesn’t get to project the thinking of the jury and be taken seriously
Those Uhuru goons are very goofy and very unself aware
Just because you think someone is goofy and un self-aware, doesn’t mean they should go to prison.
@@justinhumphrey1516 oh I never said they should go to prison, I'm as frightened as the commentator about how whatever excuse they used to lock them up will become a default
@@R1SKYB1ZOk...so what exactly are you saying then in the context of this video? Why bring up their goofy lack of self awareness? How is that in any way relevant? You didn't even specify what is it that makes them goofy/lacking in self awareness
@@thesomalistrawhat umm uhh..
no u
Obviously they are against the United States population and have ulterior motives. DO SOME BASIC RESEARCH.
Justice for the Uhuru 3 and great job Russia!!
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Disgusting.
What's disgusting? That the 3 were getting paid by a genocidal dictator to spread pro-Kremlin BS?