SFLR raid - call to action

Despite a serious local PR blitz since SFLR received notice of "illegal broadcasting" from FCC, a raid took place this week, pulling us off air, stripping all our material resources

Along with sypathetic articles from corporate and non-corporate media, the local Board of Supervisors passed a resolution urging the FCC not to raid and local police and firefighters not to participate.

Despite this, the FCC did raid and SFPD was reportedly a part of this. So local political pressure ALONE has no effect on either this Federal buracracy or our own police department (I suspect they have political reasons to defer to a federal agency rather than the local supes.

This is obviously and underside to both the sweeping media deregulation just being put into effect, as well as the aggressive attempts to shut down avenues of dissenting information to the occupation of Iraq, wars on terrrorism, and homeland securities.

I believe this shows that "pirates" need to keep taking the airwaves but getting on air en masse in a multitude of ways, to strip this bureacracy of its resources and "legitimacy" - continue "cat and mouse" games and the like; at least until a long, laborious legal victory changes things.