UT Students: FBI displays watch list(included Indymedia, Food not Bombs)

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2006/03/24/TopStories/Students.Fbi.Lecture.Displays.Watch.List-1716066.shtml?norewrite200603241639&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com

Students who attended an FBI official's guest lecture at the UT School of Law say that Independent Media Collective and Food Not Bombs were included in a presentation about possible domestic terrorism.

G. Charles Rasner, a supervisory senior resident agent and head of Austin's Joint Terror Task Force, spoke at Professor Ronald Sievert's United States Law and National Security class March 8. During the lecture, Rasner gave a PowerPoint presentation that several students say included a list of organizations the FBI watches for possible domestic criminal or terror activity in Central Texas.

"The entire slideshow was about terror groups in Texas," said Ian Roberts, a law school student who attended the lecture. Roberts said that the list included al-Qaeda, Texas separatists, the Earth Liberation Front, the Texas Communist Party, IndyMedia and Food Not Bombs as suspect cause groups.

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"The agent did not at any time say that these two groups were on terror watch groups as I have heard alleged," said Sievert, who is also a chief federal prosecutor at the Austin division of the U.S. Attorney's Office. "The slide was not labeled as a terror watch list. ... As I recall, his point was that FBI must focus only on criminal activity and that someone associated with groups he mentioned, at sometime and some place, was involved in criminal activity."

[fooj]

1. Wow. I was a member of Food Not Bombs when I went to SFSU!

We used to cook for the homeless. Sure...real domestic terrorism at its finest.

[MadHound]

2. Food not Bombs, Indy Media?

Damn, the FBI has been getting into the drugs they keep confiscating again:eyes: What, they're afraid of bread throwing leftists now?

More money up in smoke, more liberties lost, more bullshit spewing for from this administration. These assholes aren't concerned one iota about terrorists in this country, all they are concerned with is their political enemies:grr:

[rainbow4321]

8. Indymedia's filing FOIA for the Powerpoint info

http://austin.indymedia.org/feature/display/26838/index.php

In a guest lecture at the University of Texas School of Law on Wednesday, FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent G. Charles Rasner listed Indymedia, Food Not Bombs, and the Communist Party of Texas as “Terrorist Watch” cause groups in Austin.

Rasner gave a presentation entitled “Counter-Terrorism Efforts in Texas” to a U.S. Law and National Security class at the Law School. He used PowerPoint slides to illustrate the nature of the terrorist threat in Central Texas. The word “Unclassified” appeared prominently in bold red letters on the opening PowerPoint slide.

Rasner then placed the FBI’s Central Texas “Terrorist Watch List” on the screen. On a list of approximately ten groups, Food Not Bombs was listed seventh. Indymedia was listed tenth, with a reference specifically to IndyConference 2005. The Communist Party of Texas also made the list. Rasner explained that these groups could have links to terrorist activity. He noted that peaceful-sounding group names could cover more violent extremist tactics.

Student Elizabeth Wagoner requested a copy of the PowerPoint presentation at the end of the class. Rasner refused, claiming the presentation was private government property. He then refused a request for the contact information of the FOIA officer in his bureau, saying it “was not worth time”. A copy of the PowerPoint presentation has been requested via the Freedom of Information Act. We will publish the presentation on Indymedia as soon as it becomes available.

[Drum]

9. Well,

the yeast-bomb may obliterate the distinction...and fresh-smelling bread is so irresistible that it's application as an IED has certainly been chronicled by the FBI and other 'telligence outfits.

I also recall my non-cooking Uncle and Father, who nearly exploded our oven while trying to bake some potatoes....

;)

[DBoon]

3. The Communist Party?!?!

All five of them in a nursing home?

[Plaid Adder]

4. I know!

Does the FBI even know for sure that there _is_ a Texas Communist Party? Maybe someone put up a website for them as a joke.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Chimichurri]

5. No wonder they can't find Bin Laden. The FBI is too busy

harrassing IndyMedia.

[Rich Hunt]

6. yeah, the FBI sucks

Shouldn't they follow the stated objectives on their home page and fight civil rights crimes, corporate crimes, and scams and frauds?

Oh, I guess not.

Tell them how you feel, click on the link:

http://www.fbi.gov

[mmonk]

7. I'm frightened!

I've got my eyes out for that Food Not Bombs group. They sound real violent.

[acmejack]

11. They were stars at Camp Casey in Crawford.

It must be how they gained their admittance to the list. This is the kinda place where you can be arrested for being drunk in a saloon!

[RB TexLa]

10. Texas separatists LOL

I used to see one of those group's "Secretary of State" every morning on the street, he had it plastered all over his suburban, complete with the "official" seal and the words "Official Texas Republic vehicle." :rofl: :rofl: Haven't seen him in a while, maybe they got em? Or he lost election or moved or something.