This just off the newswires- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040207/ap_on_re_us/activist_investigation
"In addition to records about who attended the forum, the subpoena orders the university to divulge all records relating to the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a New York-based legal activist organization that sponsored the forum."
Drake University administration ought to fight this "fishing expedition" by the BushCo lawyers for what it is- legal harrassment and intimidation of legitimate free speech that is protected under the Bill of Rights.
Further in the AP story- According to a copy obtained by The Associated Press, the Drake subpoena asks for records of the request for a meeting room, "all documents indicating the purpose and intended participants in the meeting, and all documents or recordings which would identify persons that actually attended the meeting."
It also asks for campus security records "reflecting any observations made of the Nov. 15, 2003, meeting, including any records of persons in charge or control of the meeting, and any records of attendees of the meeting."
Of course the judge in the case issued this- "A source with knowledge of the investigation said a judge had issued a gag order forbidding school officials from discussing the subpoena."
BTW- From mobile, temporary jails known as "free speech zones" BushCo will do all to subvert the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights through any means possible. Under cover and out of the public's eye and knowledge BushCo will try to achieve it's aims of creating a plutocratic/fascistic/theological state which will never acknowledge the secular political basis of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Our nation is founded upon the ideal that it is we, as citizens, can confer upon those we vote for the right to be governed. It is not the divinity conferring a right to an individual to govern a nation's citizens but it is the citizens who have that right in this country. God is not a part of the political process as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.
"In addition to records about who attended the forum, the subpoena orders the university to divulge all records relating to the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a New York-based legal activist organization that sponsored the forum."
Drake University administration ought to fight this "fishing expedition" by the BushCo lawyers for what it is- legal harrassment and intimidation of legitimate free speech that is protected under the Bill of Rights.
Further in the AP story- According to a copy obtained by The Associated Press, the Drake subpoena asks for records of the request for a meeting room, "all documents indicating the purpose and intended participants in the meeting, and all documents or recordings which would identify persons that actually attended the meeting."
It also asks for campus security records "reflecting any observations made of the Nov. 15, 2003, meeting, including any records of persons in charge or control of the meeting, and any records of attendees of the meeting."
Of course the judge in the case issued this- "A source with knowledge of the investigation said a judge had issued a gag order forbidding school officials from discussing the subpoena."
BTW- From mobile, temporary jails known as "free speech zones" BushCo will do all to subvert the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights through any means possible. Under cover and out of the public's eye and knowledge BushCo will try to achieve it's aims of creating a plutocratic/fascistic/theological state which will never acknowledge the secular political basis of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Our nation is founded upon the ideal that it is we, as citizens, can confer upon those we vote for the right to be governed. It is not the divinity conferring a right to an individual to govern a nation's citizens but it is the citizens who have that right in this country. God is not a part of the political process as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.
posted by Ken at 2:47 PM
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