Mexican-American news service falls victim of government surveillance and intrusion
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN NEWS BULLETIN
Los Angeles, Alta California
December 24, 2005
On December 23, 2005, four agents of the US Secret Service came to the headquarters of the news and information service La Voz de Aztlan that has a website at http://www.aztlan.net
The agents requested access to the news service's computer
and they copied the entire contents of the hard disk with
electronic equipment they brought with them. They spent
about 2 hours in the computer room.
While 2 agents where copying the entire computer's contents,
two others interrogated LA Voz de Aztlan news publisher.
Among many of the questions asked where the following:
1. What is the Aztlan movement?
2. Who are members of the organization?
3. How do you obtain the information published on the
website?
4. Do you owned any weapons?
There were in addition many questions of a personal nature
asked of the publisher. The government agents already had
information which indicated that surveillance and prior
investigations had taken place.
Of primary concern to the Department of Homeland Security
special agents was a report published at http://www.aztlan.net/juba_video.htm
The report has been removed and a notice substituted to explain its removal to La Voz de Aztlan readers.
The special agent in charge of the operation was in constant
communication, through a hand held device, with others outside the headquarters of La Voz de Aztlan. This operation by the government may be related to the recent revelation that the Bush Administration has been spying on American citizens without judicial permission.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
La Voz de Aztlan
Website: http://www.aztlan.net
Contact: http://www.aztlan.net/contact/contact.htm
Unsubscribe: http://www.aztlan.net/sub_unsub.htm
Original: La Voz and the Secret Service