This is quite serious. Irish Republican Activist Radio (iraradio.com or http://209.172.196.169/iraradio/frame.htm), the archive site of WBAI's Radio Free Eireann show broadcasts, has been shut down by the Internet company maintaining the site, because of "homeland security" concerns. The website now says this: DUE TO THE CURRENT SITUATION IN THE U.S.A. THIS WEB SITE HAS BEEN CLOSED.
WHY?: President Bush signed a new law that lets the FBI, CIA & OHS seize the assets "without any notice and any real reasonable evidence" of ANY company or person that helps, supports, or does anything that can be called or labeled terrorism or is found to be connected to terrorism in any way or means possible. Word has spread about several Internet companies that have had their assets seized using this new law. WE DO NOT AND HAVE NOT EVER SUPPORTED TERRORISM!!! IRAradio.com was a news web site. The Cosmic Entertainment Company board of advisors has decided to shut down any questionable web sites as of 10:52PM September 27, 2001 until further notice. .................. The site says also: MI6, FBI, CIA, & OHS NOTICE: This is a news web site! We do not and will not support terrorism of any kind anywhere!!! This web site is for Irish news & media coverage with regard to the ongoing British presence in the occupied six counties of Ireland with a view toward correcting misrepresentations... See another email on this below and closing of sites for several other WBAI programs. What's next? Subversity? dan Daniel C. Tsang Bibliographer for Asian American Studies, Economics, Management, & Politics Social Science Data Librarian Lecturer, School of Social Sciences 380 Main Library, University of California PO Box 19557, Irvine CA 92623-9557, USA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tel: (949) 824-4978; fax: (949) 824-2700 UCI Social Science Data Archives: http://data.lib.uci.edu WWW News Resource Page: http://go.fast.to/news KUCI Subversity Show, 88.9fm Webcast: http://kuci.org Fridays 5-6 pm: http://go.fast.to/sv AWARE: http://go.fast.to/aware Personal Homepage: http://go.fast.to/ar ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:01:17 -0400 From: Mark Rosenzweig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: homeland security seizures... > Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security" >Threat > > iraradio.com, the web site which archives all Radio Free Eireann >broadcasts, has been taken down because the web service provider was >threatened with seizure of their assets if they continued to host >"terrorist" radio programs. Travis E. Towle, the Founder and CEO of >Cosmic Entertainment Company, which put up IRARADIO.COM, was told > by their internet service provider, Hypervine, that they had been >"strongly advised" to take the web site down. > > A Hypervine representative read Mr. Towle a statement that, under an >Executive Order recently signed by President Bush, the newly created >Office of Homeland Security can seize all assets "without any notice >and/or any real un-reasonable evidence of any company or person that >helps, supports, or does anything that can be called or labeled > terrorism or is found to be connected to terrorism in any way or means >possible." Hypervine is a subsidiary of the New York based Skynet. > > These threats have also caused Cosmic Entertainment to close the web >sites archiving two other WBAI radio programs, "Our Americas" and >"Grandpa Al Lewis Live." "Our Americas," hosted by Mario Murillo, is an >acclaimed news magazine covering Latin America. "Grandpa Al Lewis Live" >features commentary by the actor and political > activist who starred in "The Munsters" and "Car 54 Where Are You." > > Radio Free Eireann, which broadcasts Saturday afternoons at 1:30 p.m. >on WBAI 99.5 FM has covered the conflict in Northern Ireland for over >twenty years. Guests have included Bernadette Sands, the sister of IRA >hunger striker Bobby Sands; Rauri O'Bradaigh, the President of >Republican Sinn Fein; Sinn Fein chief negotiator MartinMcGuinness and >Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. > Mark Rosenzweig Director RCMS/Library & Archives NYC "Nihil humani a me alienum puto" ------------------------ Yahoo! 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