Well, first off, you gotta go, "well duh", of course police and the goverment are going to moniter YT and other sites.....Heck they may even be monitering this site as well....I mean if you are going to put yourself out there in that way....it's going to happen. It all goes back to what you are willing to have "out there".....I mean who needs illegal wiretaps and survalliece when you make video's telling everyone what you want to do.....be smart, is all I'm saying....
Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In [email protected], "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's awesome that people can now organize online and be their own media. > But there are also some possible repercussions. > US authorities seem to watch videos as much as teenage boys. > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080909-the-revolution-will- be-streamed-rnc-arrests-rooted-in-youtube.html > > The affidavit, which lays out the basis for the preconvention raid on a > protest group calling itself the Republican National Convention Welcoming > Committee, describes a year-long investigation that ultimately involved > officers from multiple law enforcement agencies infiltrating the group to > monitor its plans. Initially, however, police had merely monitored the > group's Web site to gather "open source" intelligence. The formal > investigation was launched last August, just two days after police noted the > appearance on the site of a YouTube "trailer" showing "several persons > dressed in 'black bloc' attire" and wielding bolt-cutters, Molotov > cocktails, and bowling-balls to the soundtrack of Blondie's "One Way or > Another." > > Police also cited the appearance in February of a second online video, the > "Video Map of the St. Paul Points of Interest," which appeared to highlight > potential targets for direct actions. The video was posted by Erik Oseland, > one of six activists now facing terrorism charges under Minnesota's version > of the federal PATRIOT Act. Another of the six, Garrett Fitzgerald, was > identified by an informant as one of the participants in the original > "trailer" video. > > Yet another of the preconvention raids targeted a group whose whole raison > d'être is video production: the I-Witness Video collective. The group films > police/activist interaction during large-scale protests, and provided > evidence that ultimately helped to exonerate hundreds arrested during the > 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Over the course of this > year's convention protests, police would make some 800 arrests, and the city > is already bracing for lawsuits. > > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
