posted 02-09-2004 02:10 PM            

Cointel Pro from the 60's and 70's, here we go again.

University, Peace Activists Receive Subpoenas

FBI Asking For Records Of New York Based Legal Group

POSTED: 7:15 PM CST February 6, 2004
UPDATED: 5:50 AM CST February 7, 2004

DES MOINES, Iowa -- In what may be the first subpoena of its kind since Sept. 11, 2001, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war protesters.

Subpoenas have also been served on four antiwar protesters who attended a Nov. 15 forum at Drake University to appear before a grand jury next week.

Federal prosecutors declined to comment, but the subpoenas were served by a local sheriff's deputy who works on the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

In addition to records about who attended the event, the subpoena asks the university to divulge all records relating to the local Chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild, a New York based legal activist organization which sponsored the forum.

The group, once similarly targeted for alleged ties to communism in the 1950s, announced Friday that it will ask a federal court to quash the subpoena.

posted 02-09-2004 03:35 PM            

we knew this was going to happen. Its amazing how quickly the NEW NAZI STATE has arrived.

Or is it Stalinist Russia? It certainly aint America anymore.

"First they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a communist.
And then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
And then they came for me,
and there was no one left
to speak out for me."

posted 02-09-2004 07:15 PM            

Perhaps the Des Moines city council should scream a bit here, too!

This isn't the first time law enforcement, whether FBI or police have overstepped their bounds!

Remember the photo invasion at our local peace rally last march where they also photo-shot my license plate? Don't you think those of us who drove all have a file somewhere either in the pd or also passed on to FBI?

Remember the arrests in Florida for no reason?

Yeah, we smelled it stinking even in 2002 and many are trying to push their fingers in the dyke! But the pressure keeps building, doesn't it?

Still, if citizens speak up -- we can quash the attempts at fascist tactics everywhere they spring up!

Keep the faith, dudes! LOL! Truly! That's not to say, don't do anything!

bc