- LOS ANGELES - Heavily armed
with high-powered machine guns, shot guns, and hand guns, the FBI, Secret
Service, and Los Angeles Police Department sorounded the founder of
raisethefist.com
in his house. The founder was currently asleep, woken up by a relative
who said fbi, police and undercover's were currently up and down all of
the streets, with they're eyes focused on the premises. Raisethefist.com
founder aproached the door were 2 FBI agents demanded that he step outside.
Within seconds a swarm of FBI raided the house with automatic weapons and
shot guns. Additional police and fbi also stayed on the front lawn, around
the house with a door baracade and additional weapons. "armed and
ready".
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- FBI and secret service entered the house, seizing all
servers and political liturature. Raisethefist.com was currently being
ran within the founders room of the house, over a computer network. The
room was literarly ransacked, and all equipment, disks, cd's .. etc. were
boxed up, loaded into a truck and seized until further notice.
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- Since 1999, raisethefist.com has been under extensive
government monitering. At times, Raisethefist.com has recieved over 100
hits from the U.S Department of Defense in a single day. The FBI, police
department, NSA (and who else) continuesly monitered the site on a daily
basis. Even government's from the UK, Canada, Lavtia, Belgium, Egypt,
Finland,
and Australia monitered the site continuesly. The FBI had also previously
intercepted all packets going through the DSL line hosting the site, and
have seized additional accounts being used by the site.
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- In yet another successfull attempt to silence our vioces,
Raisethefist.com, an anarchist/activist independent media/collective has
been shut down by the secret service.
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- "It's not yet known at this point if the site will
be back up. As of now, we have nothing. No more servers, no more network,
nothing. My room remains completly ransacked. My neighbors remain shaken
up by what happend. I most likely won't be getting any of the equipment
back. They also took alot of my political litature.
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- Apparently, they're excuse for shutting it down was the
'militancy' portrayed on the site. This is not true. This was an excuse.
This same 'militancy' they were concerned about is portrayed on at least
a thousand other web sites across the internet, and they havn't been
touched
by the federal government, with the exception for remote monitering.
Raisethefist.com
was progresive. It was going somewhere. Kids started creating clubs in
their schools called 'RaisetheFist'. People started utilizing the
collective
as a powerful resource for the activist/anarchist community.
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- The federal government has been investigating me, and
the site very closely, long before 9-11, and long before such militancy
was even portrayed on the site. They knew the site had potential, that
it was turning into something more than a site, but a strong collective
utilized by activists throughout the world committed to social justice.
And that's become a crime. Justice has become a crime. Freedom has become
a crime.
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- Anyone activly disagreeing with policies of the U.S is
now automaticly rendered a "terrorist" in the eyes of national
security.... Where raisethefist.com will go from here, I don't know. Based
on what i've been told, i'll most likely be in jail, so most of my focus
will be towards getting an attorney."
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