Ashcroft /FBI raided highschools (downloading music)

http://www.azcentral.com/families/education/articles/0421dvraid-ON.html

Federal agents in Phoenix and elsewhere in the country raided schools and other targets in a national crackdown on pirated music CDs and movies.

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The raids came on the same day that Justice Department officials in Washington announced the creation of a new Intellectual Property Task Force to step up copyright enforcement.

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School officials were not warned in advance and even the district's top officials, including Superintendent Virginia McElyea, learned of the search warrant only when computers went down. Classes were not disrupted, but computer use in the district office was limited with no Internet access or e-mail.

"We were very in the dark," Tait said.

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson would not comment on why the federal government was searching a school district's system and he would not identify the other sites in Arizona or elsewhere that were served with warrants. Bresson refused to comment on the raids at Deer Valley facility and elsewhere and would not say how targets were identified, noting the search warrants were under court-ordered seal.
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Toto, we are not in Kansas any longer.............

It sure would be nice to see more artciles that laud the Justice Dept's high-profile actions against... oh, I don't know... terrorists?

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america is a much safer place now that we got someone trying to shut down head shops and kids downloading music on school computers. what is the point of raiding a school? you can't link the crime to anyone specific. nevermind the fact that they just busted up in there unannounced. wtf?

Seems to confirm Ashcroft's tuning out pre-9-11 terrorist warning in favor of cracking down on porn and the like.

their cut. I was worried about that. I'll Sleep better tonight regardless of how many terrorists are lurking outside my bedroom window.

We are truly the safest EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!