The subpoenas were issued to a social worker, a graphic designer and a filmmaker supposedly in connection with an FBI investigation into the Macheteros. FBI Director Robert Mueller supposedly knew about the subpoenas, according to Rep. Jose Serrano. is not new that the FBI choose as target anyone who defends the independence of Puerto Rico. The previous agency surveillance are detailed in 1.8 million pages, some of which were released in 2000. Then-FBI director Louis Freeh acknowledged that the agency had done illegal known actions, possible crimes against Puerto Ricans. Even the first elected governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marín, was labeled subversive. Another casualty decline. Due to laws made by the Bush administration and approved by our Congress, the legal protections that would give them political dissidents a right to due process have been corroded. The network is extensive to include as a threat to anyone with political beliefs "suspects" without charges, trial or conviction of a crime. Organizations like the Center for Constitutional Rights has been challenging the police state mentality that has become normal and legal here. Since the attacks on civil and human rights and the historical intimidation and suppression of independence are related, activists have to make these links. This is all the more urgent given the silence of most elected leaders and virtual censorship that the media have made the citations. In the context of secret prisons, torture, detention without trial and without judicial permission recordings, fishing FBI should worry anyone interested in rescuing this country from a growing police state.
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