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Antiwar activists raided by FBI could face prison
By Tom Eley
29 September 2010

The antiwar activists issued grand jury subpoenas after last week’s FBI raids in Minneapolis and Chicago could face jail time for their political support for third world movements the US declares to be “terrorist,” an attorney familiar with the defense case told the World Socialist Web Site.

On Friday, September 24, at 7 a.m. in the morning, the FBI launched simultaneous raids on the homes of eight antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago.

Brandishing search warrants asserting that those under investigation have offered “material support of terrorism,” FBI agents and local police ransacked the homes for between three and five hours, taking the residents’ computers and cellular phones as well as thousands of books, letters, documents, and other personal belongings. In the case of the Minneapolis apartment of Mike Kelly, a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), the FBI broke his door down and entered with guns drawn.

The FBI issued subpoenas demanding they appear before a grand jury in Chicago on October 12, and in the case of Minneapolis resident Tracy Molm, on October 5. It has been reported that subpoenas were also issued in Michigan and North Carolina, but homes there were evidently not raided.

The FBI’s intentions at the grand jury hearing are not entirely clear, but it is possible that the Obama administration seeks criminal indictments under the “Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996,” which essentially proscribes political speech in support of organizations the US president defines as “terrorist.”

The law, which prohibits “knowingly provid[ing] material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization,” even if the “support” consists only of “expert advice or assistance” for “lawful, non-violent purposes,” was upheld in June by the Supreme Court in the case Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder.

The FBI does not claim that those targeted pose any danger. “These were search warrants only,” said FBI agent Steve Warfield in Minneapolis the day of the raids. “There’s no imminent threat to the community.”

Minneapolis attorney Bruce Nestor, who is involved in discussions over a legal defense for the raid victims, told the World Socialist Web Site that the government could seek to imprison the activists. This might result if the defendants refuse to speak before the grand jury, which could result in civil contempt and jail time, or if the grand jury ultimately issues criminal indictments, which would result in a criminal trial.

Nestor pointed to the chilling implications of the Obama administration’s move. What movements Washington labels as “terrorist” has always depended on the aims of US imperialism. For example, the African National Congress (ANC) was, for much of the 1980s, officially labeled a terrorist operation for its struggle against apartheid in South Africa. But the Contras in Central America, who slaughtered and tortured tens of thousands of civilians in the dirty wars of the 1980s, were “freedom fighters,” according to the Reagan administration.

“Anyone who was a part of the anti-apartheid network in the US, under the current law, would have faced criminal charges and could be put in prison,” Nestor noted.

Nestor believes the raids have far-reaching implications, saying they appear designed to harass and intimidate the targeted groups. “But more importantly,” he continued, “they will have the effect of scaring away anyone who might want to find out more, to learn about their government’s activities all over the world.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/raid-s29.shtml
 
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Nice post Killer.

It is further proof that many leftists in this country have aligned with radical Islam. Just as they aligned with your most beloved and evil USSR.

But no doubt many of your left wing brethren have not seen this report, since their news outlets will not report it. You should have posted this in my thread News For Libs.
 
...proof that ...


You must been asleep in class when the logical basis of proof was taught.

No wars against Islam, radical or otherwise, are being carried out by the War Party.

The war in Iraq is against patriots trying to get rid of the uninvited and unwanted stormtroopers of the True Evil Empire.

Ditto the imperial folly in Afghanistan where the hapless US armed forces and their lickspittle Nato alllies will go the same way as Alexander the Great, the Brits and the Tsarist Russian Empire.

You appear to forget that the War Party is now fighting the people they armed and stirred up when the Afghan revolution emancipated women and
tried to prevent the killing of female children.

Perhaps you have not forgotten because you never have, and really don't want to know what really happened in 1978 in Afghanistan.

First Clue : All political prisoners were released.

Comrade Stalin
 
Perhaps you have not forgotten because you never have, and really don't want to know what really happened in 1978 in Afghanistan.

First Clue : All political prisoners were released.

Comrade Stalin

Yeah...that's the first thing stinking Soviet commies always do when they "liberate" a nation...release all political prisoners including all murderers and rapists...

Its a great strategy, if your intent is to destroy a nation from within. Isn't that exactly what your buddy Vladimir Ilyich did?
 
I agree with the Soviets did by invading Afgainstan. I rather buy oil from the Soviets than from OPEC. Now if that dumbass Jimmy Carter stayed out of the soviets business back in 1980 we wouldnt be paying over $2.50 a gallon of gas right now. And Bin Laden would been executed by ther KGB if the US stayed out of it,,But noooooo Jimmy carter had to stick his nose where it didnt belong. And now we have Muslims planning terror attacks around the world. Just imagine if the Soviets controled IRAN,IRAQ,Pakistan,Afgainstan and Lebanon we wouldnt have muslims blowing people up. Plus under Soviet rule readding the Koran would been forbidden!
 
I agree with the Soviets did by invading Afgainstan. I rather buy oil from the Soviets than from OPEC. Now if that dumbass Jimmy Carter stayed out of the soviets business back in 1980 we wouldnt be paying over $2.50 a gallon of gas right now. And Bin Laden would been executed by ther KGB if the US stayed out of it,,But noooooo Jimmy carter had to stick his nose where it didnt belong. And now we have Muslims planning terror attacks around the world. Just imagine if the Soviets controled IRAN,IRAQ,Pakistan,Afgainstan and Lebanon we wouldnt have muslims blowing people up. Plus under Soviet rule readding the Koran would been forbidden!

You sure come up with some crazy ass sh*t SteveO.
 
You sure come up with some crazy ass sh*t SteveO.

Just ask comrade Stallin his thoughts are about this.
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Yeah...that's the first thing stinking Soviet commies always do when they "liberate" a nation...release all political prisoners including all murderers and rapists...

Its a great strategy, if your intent is to destroy a nation from within. Isn't that exactly what your buddy Vladimir Ilyich did?

...er...the Soviet Union was not part of the 1978 Saur Revolution.

They only became involved, at the invitation of the socialist government, when the reform of the medieval Afghani society was threatened by the US arming religious fundamentalists.

Comrade Stalin
 
I agree with the Soviets did by invading Afgainstan. I rather buy oil from the Soviets than from OPEC. Now if that dumbass Jimmy Carter stayed out of the soviets business back in 1980 we wouldnt be paying over $2.50 a gallon of gas right now. And Bin Laden would been executed by ther KGB if the US stayed out of it,,But noooooo Jimmy carter had to stick his nose where it didnt belong. And now we have Muslims planning terror attacks around the world. Just imagine if the Soviets controled IRAN,IRAQ,Pakistan,Afgainstan and Lebanon we wouldnt have muslims blowing people up. Plus under Soviet rule readding the Koran would been forbidden!

You tread heavily tovarich, but you speak the unfashionable truth.

Comrade Stalin
 
There appears to be no evidence to connect the FRSO organisation to Islamic fundamentalists.

FRSO is a hard line Marxist-Leninist body and is unlikely to support any religious body. It views Stalin as one of the principal marxist theorists.

Stalin hated religion, in spite of, or possibly because of, his time in a seminary and spared no effort in crushing any fundamentalist mischief.

Comrade Stalin of Gori
 
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There appears to be no evidence to connect the FRSO organisation to Islamic fundamentalists.

FRSO is a hard line Marxist-Leninist body and is unlikely to support any religious body. It views Stalin as one of the principal marxist theorists.

Stalin hated religion, in spite of, or possibly because of, his time in a seminary and spared no effort in crushing any fundamentalist mischief.

Comrade Stalin of Gori

He did,, He also hated the Koran. Practing religion is forbidden in the USSR.
 
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