WASHINGTON - September 24, 2010  - The FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists, claiming that they are “seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism.”

So far there do not appear to have been any arrests related to the raids nor, according to FBI spokesman Steve Warfield, are there any expected. He also insisted that there were “no imminent threats” related to the antiwar organizations targeted. Some of the activists say they were ordered to appear before a grand jury, however.

By Stephen Lendman

September 24, 2010 - On September 23 in federal court, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman sentenced political prisoner Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison.

Outrage most accurately expresses this gross miscarriage of justice, compounding what she's already endured following her March 30, 2003 abduction, imprisonment, torture, prosecution, and conviction on bogus charges.

BELLEVUE, Washington - September 22, 2010 - T-Mobile told a federal judge Wednesday it may pick and choose which text messages to deliver on its network in a case weighing whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as wire-line telephone providers.

The Bellevue, Washington-based wireless service is being sued by a texting service claiming T-Mobile stopped servicing its “short code” clients after it signed up a Kalifornia medical marijuana dispensary. In a court filing, T-Mobile said it had the right to pre-approve EZ Texting’s clientele, which it said the New York-based texting service failed to submit for approval.

MIAMI, Florida - September 22, 2010 - Since the events of September 11, 2001, we’ve seen a sharp increase in First Amendment violations against photographers, usually in the name of keeping us safe.

Now it is evident that one of the reasons for this increase is the lowering of police hiring standards in the recruitment frenzy following the events of September 11, 2001.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - September 24, 2010 - A man in Albuquerque filed a complaint last Friday after he said he was pulled over by two bikini-clad police officers off a freeway exit in June.

Ilia Spilca said he was driving to work on northbound Interstate 25 last June 23 when the officers pulled him over after he exited the freeway.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - September 22, 2010 - While Texans are fiercely proud their state was once its own republic, and Kalifornia celebrates the same former status on its flag, relatively few Louisianans know that a group of their forebears overthrew Spanish rule to carve out a tiny, independent nation 200 years ago. With the bicentennial coming up Thursday, historians and descendants of the rebels are hoping to change that.

"It is the most dramatic event in Louisiana history that has been so little recognized," said Sam Hyde, director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. "We have been lost to all the Cajuns and the debauchery of New Orleans, but it is a unique event that had a lasting effect on this area and others."

WASHINGTON (PNN) - September 21, 2010 - The illegitimate Obama regime has urged a federal appeals court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move.

The InJustice Department is demanding a federal appeals court rehear a case in which it reversed the conviction and life sentence of a cocaine dealer whose vehicle was tracked via GPS for a month, without a court warrant. The authorities then obtained warrants to search and find drugs in the locations where defendant Antoine Jones had traveled.