update FBI raids:Activism Is Not a Crime

[azurnoir]

Activism Is Not a Crime: Why I Will Not Testify Before This Federal Grand Jury


I have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago on January 25. But I will not testify, even at the risk of being put in jail for contempt of court, because I believe that our most fundamental rights as citizens are at stake.


I am one of 23 anti-war, labor and solidarity activists in Chicago and throughout the Midwest who are facing a grand jury as part of an investigation into "material support for foreign terrorist organizations." No crime has been identified. No arrests have been made. And when it raided several prominent organizers' homes and offices on Sept. 24, the FBI acknowledged that there is no immediate threat to the American public. So what is this investigation really about?


more at link:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25

[KansDem]

1. Yet, Osama bin Laden still can't be found.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it...

[azurnoir]

4. yes it sure does

IMO Afghanistan should have been over after Tora Bora

[Taverner]

6. eastasia has always been our enemy

[Puregonzo1188]

2. Kicking to keep this story alive

[FiveGoodMen]

3. K&R

[TriMera]

5. k&r. n/t

[ThomCat]

7. The government has always believed that citizens who

speak up are the enemy.

Shut up and become sheep, or else. Mindless, indebted consumer sheep with no political concerns or cares beyond who the the more attractive candidate is to vote for in the next election. That is what this is all about. :grr: