Ever since Friday, things have been interesting – maybe more interesting than comfortable – on the anti-war activism front. Across the country, but more intensely in Minneapolis and Chicago, FBI agents armed with iron-clad search warrants have walked into homes and walked out with…Well, anything they want. In Chicago Joseph Iosbaker said he watched as FBI agents walked out of his house with his sons' artwork and poetry. Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, were among several activists targeted in home searches in an investigation into “possible domestic links with alleged terrorist organizations.” No arrests were made. Weiner and Iosbaker will go before a federal grand jury in Chicago on October 5th. William Ostapiuk, a member of student groups at Columbia College, reminds us all, "It really could have been any of us," he said.
So I called Lauren Regan at the Center for Constitutional Rights for some helpful hints on what to do when you hear that knock at the door in the middle of the night and you are pretty sure it isn’t the Girl Scouts selling cookies…Essentially, if they have a warrant, you are going to need a lawyer. And if you are really an activist and not just an ossified armchair anarchist, then play it safe; play it smart. Don’t leave anything incriminating within reach of the long Arm of the Law unless you want to wrestle...
In other news, Regence has pissed-off the Obama administration by jacking up their rates...Again. Read it and weep. In the Lund Report www.lundreport.org.
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