October 12, 2012
A third self-described anarchist from the Pacific Northwest has been jailed by federal officials for refusing to speak before a secretive grand jury that the accused have called a politically-motivated modern-day witch-hunt.
Plante was one of a handful of people targeted in a series of raids
administered by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force on July 25
of this year which the feds say were in conjunction with an
investigation into acts of vandalism that occurred during May Day
protests in Seattle nearly two months prior. As part of their probe,
search warrants were issued at multiple residences of activists in the area, including Plante’s, demanding that dwellers provide agents with “anti-government or anarchist literature” in their homes and any flags, flag-making material, cell phones, hard drives, address books, and black clothing.“As if they had taken pointers from Orwell’s 1984, they took books, artwork and other various literature as ‘evidence’ as well as many other personal belongings even though they seemed to know that nobody there was even in Seattle on May Day,” Plante recalls in a post published this week to her Tumblr page.
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