Behind the FBI Crackdown on Indymedia

[teryang]

Big Brother is Acting
by William Bowles
www.globalresearch.ca 12 October 2004
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/BOW410A.html

<snip>According to a statement issued by International Federation of Journalists which represents 500,000 journalists worldwide:

“The seizure follows visits by the FBI to Indymedia personnel in the US inquiring about the publication on the French site Indymedia Nantes of photographs of Swiss undercover police photographing protestors. The photographs remain available on other websites.

“The IFJ believes the seizure may be linked to a September 30 court case in San Jose California, in which Indymedia San Francisco and two students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania successfully opposed an application by Diebold Election Systems Inc to remove documents claiming to reveal flaws in the design of electronic voting machines which are due to be used widely in the forthcoming US Presidential election.” <5><snip>

<snip>The other aspect that reveals the dangers of such interlocking legislation like MLAT, is how it impacts on networked news distribution, for it appears that these laws are designed specifically to be used to shutdown a global network through the simultaneous use of national laws by coordinating the actions of the state across national borders.<snip>

[KoKo]

1. terryang...could you add "BBV ALERT" to your post. Many DU'ers

might not make the connection that this is all about the Election and the Bev Harris and DU'ers efforts to expose them. Diebold lost their case against the Swarthmore students so they got the Bushies to go after "Indy Media" it sounds like from my read of this article.

It's important we make the connection about this. More of their efforts at an "eye for an eye" and wanting to steal the election.

The fact that the article says no American papers have reported it is even worse! I hope you still have time to edit and add: BBV ALERT!

[Karenina]

2. Kick!

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