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<h1 class="with-tabs"><small>On the House Raids and Grand Jury Subpoenas</small></h1>
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content="2012-07-25T21:54:07-07:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime">Wed,
07/25/2012 - 9:54pm</span> — <span rel="sioc:has_creator"><span
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<p>As has been reported <a
href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/home-raids-grand-jury-subpoenas-portland-olympia-seattle/6233/">elsewhere,</a>
police, FBI, and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided three houses
in Portland this morning, dressed like paramilitaries and using flash
bang grenades. No arrests were made, but electronics--presumably cell
phones and computers--were confiscated. </p>
<p>In addition, today five subpoenas were served throughout the
Northwest: two in Portland, two in Olympia, and one in Seattle. These
subpoenas demand that the recipients appear before a grand jury that
will convene in Seattle at the Federal Courthouse on August 2nd.</p>
<p>Grand juries exist to coerce civilians into providing information
about themselves and others to law enforcement and intelligence
agencies. They operate in secret; no judges or defense attorneys are
present, and neither Constitutional rights nor conventional
evidence-gathering protocol apply. Grand juries are frequently used to
harass activists and dissidents; for example, a grand jury forced
independent journalist Josh Wolf to serve 226 days in a federal prison
simply for refusing to turn over a videotape he had shot at a
demonstration.</p>
<p>That being said, it is critical to understand that <strong>the best
strategy for defeating a grand jury involves coordinated
non-cooperation.</strong> In many cases of federal repression of
activists and anarchists, cooperators have even wound up with similar
sentences to those who have stood their ground. To put it simply:
nobody talks, everybody walks.</p>
<p>There are also reports that law enforcement agents are still
searching for specific individuals. <strong>If you are served with a
subpoena, call the NLG National Hotline at 888-NLG-ECOL (888-654-3265)
or call a criminal defense attorney immediately.</strong></p>
<p>A support committee is forming and will soon announce how to get
involved or donate to support funds.</p>
<p>Little else is known at this time, but updates will be posted as we
receive them. It is best that in this stressful time, we resist the
temptation to speculate and gossip.</p>
<p>Learn more and stay safe:<br>
<a href="http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com/about-grand-juries/">About
grand juries</a><br>
<a
href="http://www.nlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/KYR-English-web1.pdf">Great
National Lawyer's Guild literature on grand juries, your rights and FBI
harassment</a><br>
<a href="http://nocompromise.org/issues/06crushgj.html">How to crush a
Grand Jury</a></p>
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