Terror Task Force raids activist's home over alleged spraypainting

[JackieO]

HIGHLAND PARK, NJ — Tom Howard and a couple of friends were on their way to a barbecue Saturday evening when they found themselves in the midst of an apparent counter-terrorism investigation.

...In the hours that followed, a squad of officers from the State Police Counter-Terrorism Bureau would arrive, clad in bulletproof vests and helmets and armed with assault rifles. They would secure the second-floor apartment where one of Howard's fellow barbecue-goers, Ted Nebus, lived, and keep Nebus, Howard, and three others in detention on the porch as a crowd of neighbors gathered outside to watch, Howard said.

...the search did not end until the early hours of yesterday. By then, Howard said, Nebus' apartment had been thoroughly searched by a forensics team. Investigators removed Nebus' computer, containing his master's thesis on labor relations, Howard said, and signs advocating animal rights, said Dan O'Donnell, who owns and lives in the building.

...O'Donnell said he has rented to the couple for at least two years, noting that they are a positive influence on his 6-year-old son. Since Saturday night, he added, he's had to explain to his frightened son why police entered their home with weapons to investigate people he knew.

"For allegedly spray-painting, they sent a SWAT team," Howard said.


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[IChing]

1. Terrifing story, for pacifist Parents, but we must contiunue to struggle

against these fascist.

The attacked came at 7:15 and a signed search warrant wasn't produced until 11:15
I hope he can sue these bastards.

[newswolf56]

2. Look for a lot more of this sort of thing in the months to come...

especially as the administration gets ever more desperate over growing public opposition.

[IChing]

3. I agree and so this needs to be kicked

[JackieO]

4. thanks

I posted this in LBN but it got moved to the NJ forum, where I don't think many people will see it. Activists being raided by terrorism task forces deserves some attention, awareness, etc...

[lumpy]

5. Kick

Police state

[flvegan]

6. Fascists. Sounds like the cops wanted all the pomp and

circumstance that comes with trying out the new gear.

This wasn't a raid, it was breaking and entering and theft.

What next? Busting out the National Guard when 10 kids get a little crazy with sidewalk chalk?

[MountainLaurel]

7. One of those animal rights terr'ists

Meanwhile, Bush's Saudi friends who bankrolled 9-11 and the Christian terrorists threatening to shoot doctors and blow up medical facilities walk free.

[IChing]

8. kick

[JackieO]

9. kick

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