Meredith Aby held her daughter, Audry, 1 ½, tightly as others spoke at the news conference. FBI and police officials raided Aby’s home earlier in the day.
It's been just a couple of days since a Senate panel was told by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Michael Leiter, head of the National Counter-terrorism Center, that "domestic radicalization" had become more pronounced. Napolitano warned that "a new and changing facet of the terrorist threat comes from homegrown terrorists."
Well, it didn't take the FBI long to jump right in and raid the Minneapolis homes of five antiwar activists, including three leaders of the Twin Cities peace movement, Friday morning as part of what it called a probe of "activities concerning the material support of terrorism."
Ted Dooley, a lawyer for one of those raided summed it up calling the raids "a probe into the political beliefs of American citizens and any organization anywhere that opposes the American imperial design." {more}
White folks with babies can't speak their mind and actively protest the lies of war and our criminal syndicate government without the threat of reprisal. 1st amendment ... what's that? Being an advocate of Palestine makes them especially dangerous. Israel certainly wants these people off the street and gagged and the FBI is glad to oblige. Better up the budgets of 'homeland security' cause there's still a lot of others out there who actually think they have rights and want to use them.
How many other antiwar activists all over the country are now looking over their shoulders and wondering if they're next? The fear of arrest, confiscation of personal property, grand juries and maybe even having their children taken away from them is our government's tactics to silence the truth. Nothing original there, it's all been done before as a cursory look at history will tell us.
So just shut up and prepare your children to be cogs in the wheel of permanent war. If you want to march in the streets, go to the Stephen Colbert "March to Keep Fear Alive" rally. That will be acceptable.
