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As many of you may know, the FBI has lately been targeting Palestine solidarity activists. People call it a witch-hunt, and like the witches, these activists will be innocent of whatever the government charges them with, if it bothers to charge them with anything. They are guilty of something else that they should be proud to be guilty of: struggling against the neo-colonial wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and beyond.
I had not mentioned this inquisition here before, but they have now delivered a subpoena to Maureen Murphy, my editor at Electronic Intifada, who is responsible for tamping down my verbosity and also helping to run the most important electronic newspaper serving the Palestine solidarity movement. This subpoena comes in the wake of house-raids and other subpoenas across the Midwest, through which some two dozen anti-war activists have been targeted.
Historically, Democratic administrations have been the ones to repress civil liberties and anti-war organizing with the firmest hand. The Obama administration is no exception, and its thuggish, anti-democratic nature should be clear if it wasn’t before. The Obama administration is not yielding to an oppressive atmosphere of Islamophobia and rightist chauvinism. It is fomenting it. It is not struggling against those seeking to prevent it from reforming the system. It is struggling against those seeking to reform or destroy the system.
As Maureen stated in a press release, “Along with several others, I am being summoned to appear before the Grand Jury on Tuesday, January 25th, in the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago.” Those who have been summoned have so far refused to appear before the grand jury. There have been no arrests, nor indictments. The government has not mentioned any crimes that it may be investigating.
To be subject to political harassment is a badge of honor. It means you are destabilizing power. Our job now is to make sure that badge of honor remains just a badge and not a burden. As the wars escalate in Af-Pak and Gaza is being once again pummeled by the Israeli-American air force, the empire’s courtroom is trying to intimidate those who are resisting those policies. Don’t let them. Let’s push back.
[More information available at www.stopfbi.net]
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