Longstanding Berkeley Community Center Raided by FBI

Don't even give a whiff that there's anything around you of any

evidence that tends to show a felony has been committed, or tends to show that a particular person has committed a felony).

Any of that sh*t could cost you your computer.

Thank you Teo for saying what you said. I back you. :)

This is ridiculous.

Those people haven't done anything to warrant the attention if the FBI, its a community center. any number of people use it.

Their guilt or innocence doesn't absolve the govt. Using search warrants for 'fishing expeditions' is illegal.

I don't live far from bezerkley; sure i'll hear something sooner or latter.

The Long Haul is the host of many different radical, activist, and anarchist groups. It has been an institution in the East Bay for several decades. Those who are in the area should check it out!

As far as the anarchists who are around the LH... many would identify with individualism, very few with collectivism but that is a distracting sidebar anyway. If you are interested in the "righteousness" of the FBI raiding a place that has public computers available ask yourself how different it would be if it were the Berkeley public library (which also has public Internet access)?

Oh my gosh, they raided PETA? LOL

While Sanders didn't offer details on the search, his role in covering recent threats to campus scientists conducting animal experiments may indicate the nature of the threats.

The nature of the threats, people discussing how cruel animal experiments are ???

Yeah this group sounds really dangerous. HAHaHaHAHa

How much have you read on anarchism?

I'll take that as "not much."

Anarchists are anti-authoritarians.

This guy is a classic example of the ignorance that is bred by the MSM. A couple of years ago Berkeley's Mayor Tom Bates promised to spend a night outside to experience what it was like to be homeless in his town if elected. He kept his promise and almost made it through the night.

You might learn something about a rather noble politcal subculture if you spent a day visiting with one. Its kind of like the cloistered American tourist behavior where you peer at the world though the bars of your society that lock you into labels and an incapable value set that includes the inability to empathize with anything that is alien.

Folks like these are the ones who are carrying on the same kinds of tactics that black culture used in the 50's and 60's in the civil rights movement.

As seen in other articles posted here from Denver with the treatment of protesters, police tactics are one of the first and foremost projects that groups like this have long been involved in.

We saw thee same kind of tactics in San Francisco in 1984 with the police surrounding whole blocks and then arresting everyone on fake charges. How can anyone leave the area when you are being blocked by the police from leaving. As was pointed out in the Denver Post article, there were people who were caught up in the tactic that hadn't been protesting at all and accidently happened to get caught as well. It was folks who were caught in this dragnet tactic that testified to the bogus strategy, that would soon result in everybody caught up having their charges dropped.

Similar even more vicious tactics were used in 2004 in NYC at the RNC. The official protest tank at the RNC was a big prison box completely surround by cops with cameras. For anyone who has watched this evolution of this country's formal destruction of civil rights over the years, these groups and its members have long been on the front lines, demonstrating the near Nazilike behavior of this country towards anyone who dares stand up and protest.

Wherever our society feels threatened by protest it has thrown up a riot squad mentality, the same kind of mentality it uses against foreign opponents. Dare challenge our authority and we will bash your head in, is exactly what this culture's response to protest going all the way back to the labor movement for the last century.

It is this agenda of using officially condoned violence that is at the heart of most anti-authoritarian's concerns. A good example was last months Critical Mass bike ride in NYC where a cop was caught on camera knocking down and seirously injury a rider for no reason. If the action of the cop had not been caught on camera it would never have been prosecuted. In event after event where people stand up publicly to make a point, these are the kinds of events, like the murder of students at kent State, action in 68, 84 of 04 conventions, not to mention the global WTO protests of which the Seattle actions where violence towards protesters were extreme.

From the Cop Watch styled groups that document excessive violence including outright murder, almost all of which is directed at poor minority communities to environmental groups who use "symbolic" acts or attack socalled property like the Earth First movement used to do, groups that challenge the system and its authoritarian behavior represent one of the most monitors on cultures. Anyone who has been to a few public protests should be familiar with the implications for a society when brown shirt behavior is used by police to beat protesters.

As I started this piece in reference to Mayor Tom Bates who took part in the Berkeley protests in the 60's. The raid was clearly timed as a strategic attack on groups that likely have a presence in Denver in St Paul. As was seen in 2004, police undercover agents went after the offices because there are people from Berkeley that were involved in organizing the protests in Denver.

As can be seen by the Denver Post article of the young woman's arrest, the system wants to trump up charges against protesters as a way to then go after organizers with even bigger charges. In other words, if you dare protest at the DNC or RNC we are gonna take you out. That is what is being done here. The only crime committed I see is the desperate fear of the system to the growing number of people who could easily swell protest numbers like we saw leading up to Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003 where millions took to the streets.

Great comment.

I 2nd that "great comment" :0

That's right, there were protest at the DNC, free speech was alive. Here the Rep want "no" speech against them or their policies.

It's all part of the Green Scare.

Like I've said before, it's @!$%# like this that turned me into an anarchist.