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Indymedia Server Raided by FBI
jaromil writes "Today at about 18:00 CET FBI raided the indymedia servers hosted by Rackspace both in US and England. At present, the italian indymedia and numerous other local IMC websites are obscured, while the reasons why the hard drives were taken are still unknown."
It is one of the sites where you can read about how Israel is behind EVERYTHING bad in the world...
Wish I was joking.
Indymedia "leans" left like the Pope "leans" Catholic. Everyone knows that. In fact, their slant is the one reason that they *should* have remove the RNC names immediately. It can now be construed that the folks at Indymedia wanted that information to be available. After all, lots of other information was removed immediately.
If it turns out that there is a link between the Indymedia list and the RNC folks that were accosted, then that it could easily be construed that Indymedia was complicit in those attacks. At the very least it would be fishy enough for a judge to issue a warrant.
Yep that's right dude! You'd better run to Canada cause Bushitler stormtroopers are coming to arrest you this very minute!
idiot
I bet you'd be the first to support anti-baortion sites that list abortion doctors' personal details too eh?
If Bush gets re-elected, expect more of this....
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
and China and basically anywhere that sticks two fingers up to the fucking US of Assholes.
http://slashdot.org/~GuyFawkes/journal
Well, you have to add into it the problem that the pro-Bush crowd doesn't really understand how to work a web browser ... ain't the Right, Mr Cheney .... haw
"The Internet is made of cats."
> Liberal activists are not exactly known for being
> the militant types (just ask any Republican), and > are more often than not pigeonholed as hippies,
> peaceniks, treehuggers and even cowards by the
> more militant right wing.
Errrnt... wrong answer! Thanks for playing, here are your parting gifts.
In fact, the liberals are only non-militant when it comes to defending *this* country (the US) and the principles on which it was founded (individual rights and individual liberty). In all other cases, and for all other causes, the Left is extremely militant.
Remember all those urban terrorist organizations from the 60's and 70's? Were they Republicans? No, they weren't. The Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Unabomber, and all those others were Leftists. In fact, most active terrorist organizations around the world are Leftist (specifically Marxist) either explicitly or by the implication of their stated ideals. The environmentally-inclined terrorist organizations (Earth Liberation Front, any of the Animal Rights groups, Greenpeace) and the anti-Globalization groups such as International ANSWER and the various anarchist groups (yes, anarchist groups.. they're not very bright) showing up at the larger rallies, they all have a track record of violent action or inciting others to violent action.
So, when Leftist organizations start posting names, locations, and other personal information of people who oppose them, the first and only logical conclusion is that the poster expects the people on the list to be at least harassed and potentially physically attacked.
One man's religion is another man's belly-laugh. - LL
Wow, benzapp, you are full of lies!
> The majority of arrests were of the bicycle brigade which WAS blocking streets and making it difficult for many old and infirm people to get home.
Sorry, liar -- the vast majority of people were arrested during the convention itself, not during the Critical Mass parade. By the way, Critical Mass does the same thing one Friday EACH MONTH -- the police have encouraged them.
> Our old subway system doesn't have elevators in most stations, so people who can't use stairs are stuck riding the bus or taking taxis. Is it fair to force some old lady to sit in a bus for an hour because some communist students can't figure out how to persuade people in more rational fahions than blocking streets?
Hey, liar, Critical Mass has nothing to do with the subway -- they rode a group of bicycles through the streets.
> The other arrests occurred after police officers were attacked, one of whom is going to be seriously fucked up for the rest of his life.
Got any evidence for this, liar?
I saw video of the undercover cop -- who deliberately rode his bicycle into a crowd of people and started beating on them without identifying himself.
> None of those protestors would have been arrested if they stopped the violence and informed police who the criminal was.
Sorry, liar, you are so wrong.
http://www.2600.com/rnc2004/
They arrested ANYONE who was in a given block. People were NOT BREAKING ANY LAW were arrested. I saw an old woman who was doing NOTHING wrong get punched in the face by a cop.
Question -- if they were legally arresting people -- why didn't they tell them what they were charged with? Why didn't they let them call lawyers for over 24 hours?
> Another non-NY resident talking about shit he doesn't know about.
I've lived here for 20 years.
You might be a "New York City resident" but you are a bare-faced liar and I call you on it.
Sounds more like they're throwing you a sop. Something to distract from the real issues.
1. If the US can send FBI overseas - e.g. to Norway to arrest the DeCSS kid on behalf of Sony, or the Afghanistan, or Iraq (all of which they have done) - there's no reason to believe that they won't act as agents for foreign governments or private parties while they're within the US.
B. Remember that the Bush-ites have a history of trying to close down various internet sites that they consider unsupportive of their regime going all the way back to the 1999/2000 campaign when they convinced the FEC to intervene on their behalf over the ... what was it, gwbush.com ?
No, I'd say that the RNC wanting to reserve those "journalists" that are supporting the coup and kowtowing to the regime the "right" to publish the names and home addresses of their "enemies" is a far more plausible explanation than any imaged Swiss agents.
Some one should cruise the RNC databases and see how many Right-wing militias are holding maps the homes of the protest organizers....
This is just another nail in the coffin of Speech in the US. It's not coincidence what the FCC is doing with indy radio while all this is going on, either.
Where are those data havens when you need them, gentlemen?
Here's a quote from a page I ran across while looking for references to back up my bullshit - stlightly OT, perhaps, but interesting, nonetheless:
I think he's talking about those people that the FBI are no accusing of "intimidating" the RNC.
If the RNC and their cops and their "agents" didn't notice the fact that they were out-numbered something like 1000 to 1 by people who were there at their own expense for no reason other than to show that they disagreed with the RNC - tiny minority of right-wingers who are ruling/running the country ... they must be on some seriously good shit, anyway (is that why Rush likes Oxycotin?). The kind of shit that lets them continue to believe that they are have some kind of a divine mandate to rule...
"The Internet is made of cats."