Will Potter

I’m Baaaaaaaack…

It’s been a while since the last update, and I apologize. Writing about the Green Scare and “eco-terrorism” unfortunately doesn’t pay the bills, so sometimes I’m at the mercy of other writing. Anyway, new posts are on the way. In the meantime, check out this hilarious/ridiculous/frustrating marquee at the Clinton Street Theater for the speaking […]

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Portland Event: Are animal rights activists really the “number one domestic terrorist threat”?

I’ll be in Portland next week for a speaking event with Peter Young, one of the first people ever charged with “animal enterprise terrorism.” The press release for the event is below. Rumor has it that there might also be a movie screening, to take advantage of the wonderful venue. Thanks to all the sponsors […]

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Project to “Snag Extremists and Terrorists Online”

From Boing Boing: The Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona has developed a National Science Foundation funded system “to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.” Using advanced techniques such as Web spidering, link analysis, content analysis, authorship analysis, sentiment analysis and multimedia analysis, Chen and his team can find, […]

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Two Minneapolis Grand Jury Subpoenas Dropped

UPDATE: Tony Wong and Brandon Elder won’t have to appear before the grand jury in Minneapolis at this time. (Background on the grand jury is here). The district attorney dropped the order to appear after Wong and Elder sent in a declaration of their intent to plead the fifth and not cooperate.

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Coronado’s Free Speech Trial Starts Today

Rod Coronado heads back to federal court today, in what could become (like many of these “Green Scare” prosecutions) a landmark First Amendment case. Coronado, a longtime environmental and animal advocate– and convicted arsonist– faces 20 years in prison for answering a question at one of his lectures about an incendiary device he created. (Here’s […]

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National Intelligence Director: Debating Spying Will Cause Americans to Die

Blogs and news outlets have been buzzing about yesterday’s ruling on the Patriot Act. This level of debate and discussion on domestic spying and surveillance is long overdue. According to a recent interview National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, though, such debate is intolerable. He doesn’t call it un-American or un-patriotic, like some folks like to […]

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Ringling Bros. Sues ASPCA Using Mafia Law

You might already know that the SHAC 7 were convicted of “animal enterprise terrorism” for running a controversial website that listed personal information about corporations tied to the notorious animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences. You might not know, though, that before that the corporations SHAC targeted hit back with various other legal tactics. Restraining […]

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Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act

Happy Thursday. From Dan Eggen at The Washington Post: A federal judge today struck down portions of the USA Patriot Act as unconstitutional, ordering the FBI to stop issuing “national security letters” that secretly demand customer information from Internet service providers and other businesses. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York ruled that the […]

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Greenpeace Activists Using Civil Disobedience Called “Pirates,” “Terrorists”

The Seafarers’ International Union, part of the AFL-CIO and the largest North American union of its kind, is pushing the Canadian government to label Greenpeace activists as “terrorists” and hit them with stiff penalties for non-violent civil disobedience. Greenpeace protesters boarded a ship carrying coal and used non-violent civil disobedience to draw attention to global […]

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New Grand Jury in the Midwest: Another “Eco-terrorist” Witch Hunt?

In a country where so many people get most of their news from The Daily Show, and 1 in 4 people read ZERO books last year, I can only imagine how many people get most of their information about the legal system from Law & Order. In Law & Order episodes, grand juries (if they’re […]

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