FC: Raisethefist.com owner busted in NYC for "disorderly conduct"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell () panix com>
Subject: 'Raise the Fist' Owner Busted in NYC
To: cypherpunks () lne com, declan () well com
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:59:52 -0500

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/40632.htm

BABY 'BOMB' BUST

By BRAD HUNTER and LARRY CELONA of the New York Post

February 5, 2002 -- A would-be teen terrorist, wanted by the FBI for
allegedly posting a how-to-blow-things-up Web site, was nabbed during
World Economic Forum demonstrations, cops said yesterday.

Sherman Austin, 18, of tony Sherman Oaks, Calif., was arrested Saturday
for disorderly conduct during a demonstration at 59th Street and Fifth
Avenue.

They soon discovered that Austin was suspected by the feds of posting
explosives information on the Internet. When investigators raided his
apartment Jan 24, they said they discovered a treasure-trove of
mischief-making tools.

In addition to computers, they found literature advocating revolution,
gas canisters, iced-tea bottles filled with flammable material, gas
masks and an anarchist flag.

Austin's car contained fertilizer, cans of brake fluid and two gas
canisters. He runs an anarchist Web site that provides a litany of
methods that can be used for urban thuggery - including making
explosives.

He has been turned over to the feds.

[...]

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