Puerto Ricans Protest Against FBI

[Rose Siding]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- More than 1,000 demonstrators chanting anti-FBI slogans and carrying Puerto Rican flags marched through the capital of this U.S. island territory on Sunday.

Demonstrators chanted "Respect Puerto Rico!" and "FBI get out!"

Many of the marchers favor independence for the island and accuse the FBI of persecuting the movement.
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FBI agents on Feb. 10 searched five homes and a business to thwart what the agency said was a "domestic terrorist attack" planned by independence militants.

Luis Fraticelli, special agent in charge of the FBI on the island, has said the alleged attack would have involved explosives directed at "privately owned interests" and the public in Puerto Rico

As word spread of that FBI operation, reporters gathered outside an apartment building in the San Juan area as agents searched.

A television stations broadcast images of federal agents using pepper spray on reporters and protesters -- prompting complaints from journalist associations on the island.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-puerto-rico-fbi-protest,0,860571.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[goforit]

1. Wow!!!......The FBI's well earned karma

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. That's right! n/t

[wakeme2008]

3. Looks like Bush was got PR to go Independent when

nobody else could..

:grr:

[Bacchus39]

6. not likely

the independistas are a very small minority.

[lovuian]

4. Ya have to wonder is the FBI starting to be the Secret Service

You have to wonder why the FBI is given carte blanche in these countries...

[fasttense]

5. Well, actually PR is a commonwealth of the US and PR citizens

are US citizens. They don't need a visa to get into CONUS. But I agree. The FBI needs to butt out. It has become the police for the bush* regime.