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Raisethefist.com Update
d33l0w3 writes: "It looks like Sherman Austin is off the hook for now. For those of you who missed the previous slashdot posting, Sherman was arrested on Feb. 2 for the contents of his website raisethefist.com. This comes as more of a surprise than the FBI raid on his house." Just a couple of days ago, the government was planning to transfer him to California to face charges there, but now according to Newsbytes, those have been dropped. Read that link I just gave - there's quite a lot of interesting information that came out during the hearing. The attorney's concern about Austin being jacked around in "detention" for an indefinite period of time says a great deal about our judicial system.
Ah. Thank you for clarifying. So you post anonymously because you are such an out-of-the-box, radical free thinker, and are afraid of being shouted down by the masses, so to speak. Yet, if you are the same AC that I responded to, your comments are in sync with 99% of the rest of the postings on this topic. Perhaps there is a herd of radical free thinkers like you.
Oh, you're represented alright...
By the best government that money can buy!
Oh, the nefarious things polititions do. Did you notice that the campaign finance reform bill passed by quite a wide margin? Hmmmm. It seems as though when it was clear that it would pass, many "changed" their vote to seem more acceptable to voters. They didn't support it publicly, and used every back-room maneuver to keep it off the floor and out of the light, then when it appears and is going to make it, we just jump sides and vote for it.
And Georgie... He's doing lots against the bill(s) in private, but says - Oh, I'll sign it when it arrives I don't like it, but I won't oppose it either - what a crock.
Campaign contibutions are investments by those giving - esp when they're large. If you don't produce a good return (without being to obvious) you'll loose out as an "investment" vehicle.
The representation of us the people is a sham. Sure, if you are unopposed by a monied interest, you'll get some representation.
Just this week, I had a chat with the staff at a congressman's office. He claimed since Enron failed, it didn't get any special favors. [Sheesh, don't get me started on the falicy of this thinking..] He also thought that the prosecution of MS caused the crash of the NASDAQ! Finally, he totally misrepresented the bill in the house that incidentally passed!
I've posted this before, but basically, if you were a friend of the King (i.e. Brought him lots of wealth and power and priestiege) you got lots of representation. The same is true now. It just looks different. Politics, now like always, is ruled by money and power. Occasionally, in history, there is such upset and anger, things change, but not often.
It's funny how we see the "terrorists" who did the Boston Tea party as different than those who committ other acts of vandalism to bring attention to what they see as oppression. Either there's some justifications, or it's always wrong. If the latter, just label the Boston Tea Party participants as EVIL TERRORISTS. Otherwise use reasonable judgement in viewing the acts of others, rather than saying they broke the law and are wrong. Sure they might be wrong, but not just because they broke the law.
Lastly, doesn't it seem like the "police state" is a bit out of control. The protesters arrested during the Republican convention were held on one million dollars bail ($1,000,000). They were awful threats to the state, the prosecution would have us believe, at least to justify bails at such levels that rapists and murders don't see.
What happened? Oh, the charges were dropped! So was the individual a serious risk or not? That's blatant false testimony. Did the FBI etc get slapped for it? Not that I'm aware of?
Basically, in the relation to this whole thread, I find our law enforcement more focused on their well-being, not ours.
With that caliber of slimy creeps working for and representing 'the people', no wonder they can't catch the REAL bad guys.
Woe be to the honest person who happens to run afoul of the governmet's political agenda.
"Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
--Tom Schulman
So he promoted the death of others, trying to plod influence on the shortsighted to follow his selfish "I-need-a-reason-to-fight" cause. What's so wrong with giving him a reason? I certainly would lock his ass up.
The problems with bombs are that most people don't think about them the way they should. All things equal, they have a good chance of hitting a relative, and they have a 100% chance of hitting someone's relative. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT THAT WAY, IT MAKES YOU A MURDERER... A MISGUIDED MURDERER. YOU ARE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE'S CHILD. GUARANTEED. THERE ARE GOING TO BE ONE LESS PLATE AT A FAMILY REUNION. GUARANTEED.
IF YOU BOMB FOR SOME IDEA, DEAD PEOPLE ARE THE CONSEQUENCE, NOT THE PROMOTION OF THE IDEA.
I also love it when the pro-commie, anti-American nutties say that the FBI had 'no right to search' or 'they went too far.'
Well, when his little ass goes unchecked for a while and decides to blow up a building ala Fight Club, "cause he thought it was cool," then you will be wondering why innocents had to die, now won't you? But then again... anarchists and free thinking lefties don't want to associate with their mongrel cousins, the same way that right wingers don't want to stand too close to the loony Christians when they bomb abortion clinics.
I may be right wing, but I would turn their asses in. I know a few lefties that wouln't want to get involoved.
Once again, in the world of REALITY, and not the world of INTELLECTUALISM, you pay for your actions. If you attempt to build bombs or promote the attack of innocents over percieved injustices... well then, you pay in full.