Free Speech? Anti-terrorism laws used to suppress website

Democracy Now ^ | 9-3-2003 | Amy Goodman

[Aarchaeus]

Scary.

[TigersEye]

“When I went there, the Secret Service notified the New York police chief to pretty much, I guess, target me and arrest me,” Austin said. “I was just standing there, out of nowhere cops just rushed me and scooped up about 26 people. I was one of those 26 people.”

Moron.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Austin describes his raisethefist.com site as an anarchist web page.

Huh. I always was under the impression that it was a 'Gay Rights' web site, and I never visited it... huh. Oops.

[TailspinJim]

1984 here we come!

[TigersEye]

That's raisefist dot com, not ray's fist dot com. ;^)

[Chad Fairbanks]

According to the tech news site CNet, Austin is the first person charged under this law, which has been criticized by First Amendment scholars. The law came into effect in 1997, after Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) added it onto a defense-spending bill.

What's REALLY funny about this, is you just KNOW that Fineswine did this to target right-wing groups... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaa

[Chad Fairbanks]

I just now figured that out LOL

[and the horse you rode in on]

Post a scan from an old Army Demolitions Manual that the government sold you on a website and you can make the same trip if someone is pissed at you.

[TigersEye]

Buy all those military manuals on CD-ROM from frugalsquirrel.com. Commit them to memory and pass them on to a FRiend.

[MarkL]

And when he gets out of prison next year, he will be banned from associating with anyone who wants to “change the government in any way.”

I guess that means he can't associate with anyone registered to vote, huh? Since voting means that you're trying to "change the government," and the ruling states "in any way."

Mark

[Cyclops08]

Its a law. He chose to break it. He chose to post instuctions on building people killing devices.

He should be thankfull that he will only serve a year. THAT is very lenient in my book.

The leftists anarchist groups have not figured out that the world changed on 9-11. Tactics like this are not accepted with a wink anymore.

Too bad. At least this guy will have a social life in prison.

[gc4nra]

"The law came into effect in 1997, after Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) added it onto a defense-spending
bill."


So the same leftist idiot that is screaming about the Patriot Act said this was okey-dokey on der Slickmeister's
watch!

[Chad Fairbanks]

MOre than likely he is exagerating or mistating the sentence. It's more than likely he is forbidden to associate with anyone who wants to change the SYSTEM of government in any way... but maybe I'm wrong.

[MarkL]

“We went back to court,” said Austin. “And the judge said, you know, ‘what kind of a message would four months in jail send to other revolutionaries?’ And he pretty much made it clear that he wanted to set an example out of me and again stated that he wanted to give me at least a year in prison.”

He got off easy... Other American revolutionaries, like Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington would have gotten the death penalty if they had been caught...

Mark

[MarkL]

“We went back to court,” said Austin. “And the judge said, you know, ‘what kind of a message would four months in jail send to other revolutionaries?’ And he pretty much made it clear that he wanted to set an example out of me and again stated that he wanted to give me at least a year in prison.”

He got off easy... Other American revolutionaries, like Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington would have gotten the death penalty if they had been caught...

Mark

[Chad Fairbanks]

Exactly...

[TigersEye]

The Patriot Act was written on the Clintoon watch.

[and the horse you rode in on]

Its a law. He chose to break it.

My guess is that as soon as Commisar Feinsteins law gets in front of an apellate court it won't be law any more.

[pierrem15]

1997! Finswine!

ROTFLMAO-- The Left hung by their own petard!!!!

This guy's website preaches "resistance" (violence) against the oppresive white pig establishment.

If he posted info on explosives making and combined it with a call to arms, then he violated the law.

[Denver Ditdat]

Buy all those military manuals on CD-ROM from frugalsquirrel.com. Commit them to memory and pass them on to a FRiend.

Keep the original. Burn copies and pass them along to FRiends. US Government publications carry no copyright, and it's perfectly legal to reproduce them.