Root out the nest.
Look for several indymedia "contributors" to suddenly vanish.
IIRC, Isn't Indymedia linked to George Soros?
Sweet.
Root out the nest.
Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over Indymedia web servers to the requesting agency. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied and turned over the requested servers, effectively removing those sites from the internet.Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia. Talking to Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they cannot provide Indymedia with any information regarding the order." ISPs have received gag orders in similar situations which prevent them from updating the concerned parties on what is happening.
It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.
At the same time an additional server was taken down at Rackspace which provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a handful of miscellanous things.
The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government. In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the Netherlands. Last month the FCC shut down community radio stations around the US. Two weeks ago the FBI requested that Indymedia takes down a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss police and IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the same issue. On the other hand, Indymedia and other independent media organisations were successfull with their victories for example against Diebold and the Patroit Act. Today however, the US authorities shut down IMCs around the world.
The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, part of the Germany site, and the global Indymedia Radio site.
Ping to something stinky and Indymedia.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of sleezebags.
Paybacks for their "American Myrmadon" knockoff of the Time Mag. cover.
This is good news!
They have their fingers in everything.
I'm glad to see the Feds finally moving on some of this crap. Today, Rep. Fenney from Oveido, Fl...along with 19 other Representatives, also submitted requests for Ashcroft to issue indictments against the AFL-CIO attacks on Republicans in Orlando. Tonight, Brit finally mentioned the attacks around the country..although, only through the Grapevine segment. It's past time for the GOP to start fighting back against these "terrorist" tactics.
Those are the aholes who took the Time magazine man of the year cover and photo shopped swatsikas (and else) on to the uniforms of our heros last winter.
Indymedia's servers raided by law enforcement - Tereeza might be a little miffed.
Ping
My my my, what an interesting development
More fun!
over here!
I wonder if this group is in any way related:
Muslim get-out-vote unit pushes deadline
By Dara Kam
Special to The Palm Beach Post
Friday, October 08, 2004
Theresa LePore vowed to close the Palm Beach County elections office at 5 p.m. Monday, the final day to register to vote in the Nov. 2 election, but a young man who arrived about 15 minutes after the deadline managed to drop off 550 applications on behalf of a group of Muslims determined to oust President Bush.
LePore, no stranger to confrontations, said the man demanded she accept the bundles of voter registration applications attached to slips of paper identifying them as having been collected by Voting Is Power, which goes by the acronym VIP and is an offshoot of the Washington-based Muslim American Society.
LePore said he showed up, carrying a box of applications, about 15 minutes after she locked the door to her office at 5 p.m. She said she told him her office was closed but he could mail the forms as long as they were postmarked by midnight that night.
But, she said, he wasn't satisfied and managed to slip inside the lobby when someone left.
"He started hollering about disenfranchising people," said LePore, who took the box after he thrust it at her.
She said that, because some of the applications were dated in July and others were incomplete, she told him he should have turned them in on time so the potential voters could have cast ballots in the Aug. 31 primary or corrected missing information.
"Then he started saying, 'You're all alike,' or something to that effect, and 'It's better in New York,' " she said. "And I said, 'Why don't you go back to New York?' "
The man did not identify himself and Bret Wask, whose name was on the VIP labels attached to the forms, did not return numerous telephone calls to The Palm Beach Post.
LePore, who said she also let a few individuals turn in single registration forms until 6 p.m., was surprised to learn that VIP's parent group is the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, an organization that has a federal 501(c)3 designation for religious nonprofits. Although the group claims it is nonpartisan, its political action committee has formally endorsed John Kerry for president.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2004/10/08/s1d_ELECT_1008.html
All your servers are belong to FBI
You have got to be kidding!
This is a real righteous bust if true!