More PATRIOT abuses

[unixronin]

This post tells the story of a published "mainstream women's fiction" author who was targeted and raided because she was researching Cambodia and terrorist atrocities there on the Internet and in her local library for an adventure novel she was writing.  She was raided pre-dawn by an armed multi-jurisdictional Federal task force, some of whom wouldn't even identify what agency they came from.  They threatened to kill her dogs, intimidated her, and took virtually everything in her office except her desk and the carpet -- including not only her computers and files, but contracts with her publisher, her music CDs, the TV from her office, pictures off the walls, books, pens, a case of blank paper, even POSTAGE STAMPS fer crissake.  She's gotten nothing back except her computer, which was bugged to the gills with FBI spyware.

Folks, this isn't even any kind of pretense at searching and seizing evidence according to a search warrant..  A TV?  Pictures off the walls?  Postage stamps?  They were quite plainly, blatantly, and unashamedly STEALING ANYTHING THEY COULD CARRY THAT WASN'T BOLTED DOWN.  This wasn't a search and seizure.  This was an armed home-invasion robbery carried out under the color of Federal authority.

And Chaos knows, we all desperately need to be protected from romance writers....

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Revolution Begins At Home

[captoblivion.livejournal.com]

Just when you thought it was safe to leave the shelter, the Brain Police arrive. Again.

This is why I leave "destroying all fascists" in my hobbies list, even though no one else does. It NEEDS to stand out.

Re: Revolution Begins At Home

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

This is why I leave "destroying all fascists" in my hobbies list, even though no one else does.

Um ... not any more, squire. Though it may take LJ a while to register the change. ;)