[This seems like an overreaction. Apparently a web hosting company was afraid that providing web space to an pro-IRA online radio station might get said company in trouble. So it pulled the plug. In any case, it does not appear that they were threatened by -- or even contacted by -- the Feds. --DBM]
******* Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:23:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Guilherme C Roschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Bush cracks down on antiwar movement (fwd) FYI and for politech... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.luminousvoid.net ******* http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1859212 Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security" Threat posted by Autonomedia on Sunday September 30, @01:52PM from the is-this-the-last-message-we-will-be-posting-you? dept. raradio.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 Martin McGuinness and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. update: it seems that this (mostly) is not a hoax. www.iraradio.org and www.allewislive.com have been taken down, although www.ouramericas.org is still running with no notice of this event. ******* http://www.iraradio.com/ Attention IRAradio Listeners: President Bush recently signed a new law that lets the FBI, CIA & OHS seize 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". Word has spread about several Internet companies that have had their assets seized using this new law. In light of the foregoing and the recent tragic events in the United States, the Cosmic Entertainment Company board of advisors has deemed it advisable and in the best interests of the Company to temporarily shut down the IRAradio.com web site until the turbulence and uncertainty facing our nation has decreased. THE COSMIC ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY DOES NOT AND WILL NOT SUPPORT TERRORISM OF ANY KIND! Questions regarding this web site should be directed to: Travis E. Towle Founder & CEO The Cosmic Entertainment Company Phone: 785.554.8238 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
