Police Raid Of Activists' Home In Jacksonville, Florida (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 00:12:25 -0800
From: Arm The Spirit <ats@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Multiple recipients of list <ats-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Police Raid Of Activists' Home In Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville ABC Raided By SWAT Team

(Source: PACNJABC@xxxxxxx)

At 1 PM Friday, January 12, 1996, 22+ tactical SWAT unit and police
intelligence officers with evidence technician vans raided the residence of
Jacksonville Anarchist Black Cross SG and Youth Action Movement.

During the 3 hour raid police took into custody Rob Cluesman, confiscated
2 legally owned shotguns, a police scanner, spray paint, stencils, political
literature and computer disks.

Police quarantined the 3 remaining collective members in one room of the
house while other officers searched the house, took photographs of the house
and members. Members of police intelligence attempted to interrogate
collective members about their political activities and affiliations.
Collective members refused to sign consent forms to allow a legal search.

No one knows what Rob Cluesman has been charged with and have allowed no
contact with him. The story has yet to fully develop, this is all that is
known. More updates will follow.
   The situation is very serious and all ABC affiliated groups and supporters
should be cautious and prepared in the event of similar occurrences.

Update - January 16, 1996

(The following was forwarded to NJ ABC by Rob Cluesman of Jacksonville ABC)

Date:  Tue, Jan 16, 1996 12:48 AM EDT
From:  YAM FL ABC
Subj:  The real deal
To:      PAC NJ ABC

YOUTH ACTION MOVEMENT/JACKSONVILLE ABC RAIDED BY JACKKKSONVILLE PIGS

 I was in dreamland when i heard the loud knock on the door. I thought (for
some reason) that it was the Mail Man. I dragged myself up off the couch and
slowly made it to the door. I opened it up only to find 2 glocks to my face!
"Are you Robert M. Cluesman?" I could smell the pork all around me, I knew it
was the police. "Yes, I am", I said as I closed the door behind me. "You're
under arrest for driving on a suspended license", one pig grunted. I began to
look around, my eyes began to focus. I saw about 6 officers, I assume they
were officers anyway, because they were wearing black fatigues and the glocks
were strapped to their thighs. I saw one pig in the yard with an orange vest
on marked "Police."

It had not yet hit me that it was rather excessive for the police to bring
a SWAT Team down on a suspended license rap. Some female pig handcuffed me
with riot control plastic cuffs and took me down to the yard and sat me in
the grass. I then saw pig by pig entering my home and in an instant i thought
of Justin, who was in the shower, and Chris and Jenny, who were asleep in
their bedroom. I spoke out-"We need to get all of these police out of my
house, right now", I said. "Well your name isn't on the lease so you can't
tell us weather or not we can go in", some pig grunted. It hit me then that
this was all politically motivated, that all of this was a raid on the home
of us four Youth Action Movement/Anarchist Black Cross members. "The people
whose name IS on the lease ARE in the house and I KNOW they don't want you in
there" I blasted back at the pig. "Well then we'll just have to talk with
them", the pig bloated back. Sitting there in the grass I could see about 20
police cars, other unmarked cars, a police van and about 30 pigs.... ALL IN
BLACK FATIGUES AND PLAIN CLOTHES, NONE IN REGULAR UNIFORM!

This female pig then began to dig her hands through my pockets and she
found an ABC pamphlet inside, "What's this, some kind of GANG CRAP?!?" She
saw the screen name of one of my online friends, "Spindogxxx....." I said,
"That's not gang stuff, that's a screen name..." I stopped in mid-sentence, I
realized that this was a pig tactic to try and gain information on me and the
YAM/ABC. I kept quiet, she kept prodding. As I looked in her face I saw her
for the pig that she is and I began to laugh out loud. "What are you laughing
at?", she asked.... "You", I answered.

Meanwhile, the house is being ransacked. Jenny woke up to her door being
kicked in while having a mag light shined in her face. Chris was with her.
Justin was in the shower when the pigs banged on the bathroom door. When
Justin and the others asked how the pigs got in they replied, "Rob, let us
in." In the Pig Car I asked, "Well, hasn't Justin told you guys to get out
yet?" "No, he even signed a paper saying we could stay", the lying fat pig
replied. In reality the pigs asked Justin to sign it and Justin refused.
Justin then asked the pigs if they had a warrant, of course, they didn't.
They said, "We don't have a warrant but you don't mind if we look around a
bit do you?" Justin said, " If you're asking me for my permission to search
the house, let the record show that I DO NOT give you permission to search
the house nor do I give you permission to even be here!" They asked Chris if
he felt the same way, he sure did, so did Jenny. Then the pigs said that if
Justin didn't sign the paper that they would hold them all there for four
hours until they could get a warrant, "And then you'll all be late for work",
one pig remarked. "And then we'll tear your whole house apart", another swine
uttered. Justin replied, "Do what you have to do, but we don't want you in
our house." So, the pigs, without a warrant, without respect, with much
contempt, took Chris, Jenny and Justin to a bedroom where they were held at
bay with glocks while the pigs searched the house.

I was well on my way to jail. The pig in the car kept asking me about the
YAM/ABC, "So what kind of organization IS the YAM?", he asked. "Well you guys
probably have had us under surveillance for some time now, you tell me.", I
replied. "Well, I know that you guys are a terrorist organization, we just
got out of a class where they taught us about you guys. You believe in that
Malcolm X/Huey P. Newton crap, don't you?", the pig bloated. "Well what's
wrong with Malcolm X?", I asked. "He was a racist NIGGER!, that's what. And
Huey P. Newton would have shot a white person any day of the week if he had
the chance."  I laughed out loud. The pig grunted.

At the jail I was not taken to the booking center. I was take into a room
marked, "intelligence." There I saw that same face I had seen when i was on
the grass in my front yard. He was kind of in the background just watching
all that the pigs would do. His name is DETECTIVE T.C. O`STEEN of the
JacKKKsonville Sheriff's Office. He asked me my name, date of birth, etc.
Then, "Tell me a little bit about the Youth Action Movement." I asked him,
"That's what this is all about isn't it? You don't care about some measly
traffic fine. All of that was just an excuse to find out information on the
YAM/ABC, wasn't it?" "Yes, but.... we just wanted to get a little bit of
information on your group." "Then why didn't you just call us and ask? You
don't have to come in kicking doors down and pointing glocks!" He told me
that they already knew everything about us and that I might as well just tell
them. I replied, "Well if you already know everything then there's nothing
more to say is there?" This type of conversation went on for the next four
hours.

I was incarcerated for 3 days. I just got out yesterday (Sunday).

When I got out I found that they had kept Justin, Chris and Jenny, in one
of the bedrooms while they confiscated our valuable property. They took a lot
of pamphlets, our radio scanner, and two shotguns. All of which were very
legal.

We are seeking an attorney to help us contest the illegal search of our
home. The illegal seizure of our private property. And the blatant violation
of our civil and human rights!

The purpose of this raid was a petty attempt by the power structure to
terrorize us out of existence. It is amazing the lengths these pigs will go
to. And even more amazing is their stupidity: Do they really think that by
raiding our homes and taking our things that they will calm a mighty storm
that rages in the consciousness of the people? If they do then they are sadly
mistaken. This petty attempt has served only to make us stronger in our
determination and desire to see a better life for all of the people. To see a
better life for my mother, who has been busting her butt all of her life
simply to survive. Like so many other mothers. Like all those fathers out
there and brothers wondering where their gonna get a paycheck. Wondering how
their gonna feed their babies. YOU and I, as activists, must put the petty
aside, must put our individual egos aside and re-dedicate ourselves to this
struggle. Re-dedicate ourselves to educating all those out there who are
sick, shooting up, cracking out, losing their minds. This, People, is the
kind of struggle we must dedicate ourselves to. We must realize that WE ALL
are responsible for the justice and injustice that happens in this world.
That we must choose a side to fight on. And that neutrality is just another
word for SELL-OUT! Power to the People, yall.....

Robert M. Cluesman - Youth Action Movement / Jacksonville Anarchist Black
Cross




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