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"***UPDATE***
Los Angeles Activist Webmaster Released From Jail!
Los Angeles Webmaster, Sherman Austin, has been..."
More about Sherman
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Occupation:
former Political Prisoner, former Webmaster
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Hobbies and Interests:
anarchism, liberation, self-defense, freedom, anti-imperialism, community, struggle, revolution, long walks on the beach
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Favorite Books:
Manufacturing Consent, God and the State, Communist Manifesto, Anarchism, No Gods - No Masters, Days of War Nights of Love, The Bolsheviks and Workers Control: The State and Counter-Revolution
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Favorite Movies:
We Interrupt This Empire, Bread & Roses, Land & Freedom, Breaking the Spell, The Matrix
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Favorite Music:
Rage Against The Machine, The Coup, Dead Prez, The Clash, Chumbawamba, Zack De La Rocha
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Favorite TV Shows:
The Simpsons
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About Me:
***UPDATE***
Los Angeles Activist Webmaster Released From Jail!
Los Angeles Webmaster, Sherman Austin, has been released from the Federal Corrections Institute in Tuscon, Arizona. He was sentenced to one year in August 2003, after federal authories raided his home in January 24, 2002. Most of the contents of his room were confiscated, including his computer equipment and literature, as innocous objects such as ice tea bottles and a toy car were portrayed as terrorist devices by the FBI and a joint task force of police officers. Added to these spurious charges was the fact that rudimentary bomb making information was posted on his server, not by Austin, but by an Orange County teen that was not charged with a crime.
The FBI also used the testimony of a militia man, who assisted them in their efforts to entrap Austin, to justify the January, 2002 raid. The Terrorism Enhancement Clauses written by Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein were interpreted by the prosecution to mean that Austin would be forced to spend a mandatory twenty years in prison if he did not plead out to a year in prison and an extremely restrictive three years probation which is still pending and fully in effect. Sherman is also regarded as one of the first casualties of the USA PATRIOT ACT. His case sparked controversy among those concerned with human rights and freedom of expression. Democracy Now, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, CounterPunch, Zach de da Rocha, the infoshop, and Not In Our Name, are just some of the activists and media venues that spoke out about Sherman's case. Austin will remain in a halfway house until sometime in August when he can finally return home! Sherman Austin's dynamic website, Raise the Fist has been forced off of cyberspace by the authorities.
For more information, go to freesherman.org, indybay.org, and la.indymedia.org.
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Who I Want to Meet:
Allies in the struggle for freedom for all people. My full name is Sherman Austin. I am a friendster representation of the real Sherman Austin, whose access to computers is extremely limited by jail and restrictive probation conditions, prohibiting him from most forms of communication and political activity. Feel free to add me as your friendster and spread the word about the political repression happening in the United States. I also want to meet Friendster representations of other political prisoners, like my friend Free.
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society or whether we want to live under what
amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism,
with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed
elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans,
fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the
leader who saved them from destruction, while the
educated masses goose-step on command and
repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and
the society deteriorates at home. We end up
serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that
others are going to pay us to smash up the world.
Those are the choices. That's the choice that you
have to face. The answer to those questions is
very much in the hands of people like you and
me." - Noam Chomsky "Media Control"
education, we talk about equality, we
talk about freedom, yet those elite
call us criminals, we will prevail in
this war, this is just the beginning.
more power to our allies. let the those
corporate PIG burn,down to the norm
easy. Spending lots of time in jail
sometimes just seems to come with the
territory. But hold strong for their
repression is out of their fear that
commited radicals, more specificly,
anarchist people of color are
organizeing and represent a threat to
the tyranny that is the Capitalist
system we live under.
Libertad y Justicia para todos los
presos politicos!
a storm lightening the function, the
form, far from the norm We won't follow
like cattle, were more like the
catalyst calm in the mix of battle. and
were back in the cipher of our foes and
friends, with a verse and a pen against
a line we won't toe or defend, instead
we curse at murderous men in suits of
professionals who act like animals....
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!! FREE
SHERMAN AUSTIN!!!
You tried your hardest to "don't let the bastards get you down"
and for that you will always be a hero of mine.
Thanks for all you do, and as soon as you're out, let's be very
juvenile and toilet paper the hell out of Edwin Meese's house.
people to shoot or stab a black or
brown man, to kill a doctor who
performs abortion, to rape a woman, and
thats protected. teach people how to
operate and clean guns, and thats
protected. but dissent, and if there is
any possible way that they can get you,
they will. because dissent isnt
protected. and you thought this shit
was a democracy. well stay strong,
comrade, cause youll get out. fight to
be free, and we will also in
solidarity. but we are all humble to
the fact that as fucked up as they
treat us, torture us, imprison us,
that 'us' stands for some six billion
people. were a mighty wall, so stand
tall.
would hesitate to be a friendster or
leave a testimonial for this guy out of
fear of Big Brother here in U.S. Screw
that! It's time to SPEAK OUT AGAINST
TYRANNY! It's time to wake up from our
popculture STUPOR to what the hell is
going on! It's time to get off our
lazy butts and tell other people.
Tyranny does not back down when people
cower---it grows! If we fail to learn
from history we are destined to repeat
it. LET'S NOT GO DOWN THAT ROAD
FOLKS! What the hell good can America
do for ANYONE when it's going to
Homeland Security in a handbasket?!?
Screw the mass media! Screw the lying
scumbags who try to link true patriots
and constitution lovers with "Al-Qaeda"
or whatever the CIA funded boogie man
of the week is! WAKE UP PEOPLE!! GET
OUT OF YOUR LEFT VS. RIGHT PARADIGM!
YOU ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY IT! Turn
on your BRAIN and research for YOURSELF
what's going on. Turn off ABC, CBS,
FOX, BBC, they are ALL CONTROLLED! Go
to AP, Reuters, UPI and read all the
thousands of stories that don't get
picked up by the networks! Go to
http://www.infowars.com and listen to
the broadcasts and get the VIDEOS of
PROOF of exactly what they want to do
to us!! Use your google and LOOK the
information up and see if it's true for
yourself! WAKE UP!
are no ways up from the bottom. When
improvements within the system have
been made, they resulted from pressure -
- pressure from below. Nothing has been
given away; governments don't hand out
justice because it's a nice thing to
do. People must struggle and die first.