LA VOZ DE AZTLAN NEWS BULLETIN <>
<><><> Los Angeles, Alta California <><><><>

December 24, 2005
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> Mexican-American news service falls victim of
> government surveillance and intrusion
>
> On December 23, 2005, four agents of the US Secret Service
> came to the headquarters of the news and information service
> La Voz de Aztlan that has a website at http://www.aztlan.net
> The agents requested access to the news service's computer
> and they copied the entire contents of the hard disk with
> electronic equipment they brought with them. They spent
> about 2 hours in the computer room.
>
> While 2 agents where copying the entire computer's contents,
> two others interrogated LA Voz de Aztlan news publisher.
> Among many of the questions asked where the following:
>
> 1. What is the Aztlan movement?
> 2. Who are members of the organization?
> 3. How do you obtain the information published on the
> website?
> 4. Do you owned any weapons?
>
> There were in addition many questions of a personal nature
> asked of the publisher. The government agents already had
> information which indicated that surveillance and prior
> investigations had taken place.
>
> Of primary concern to the Department of Homeland Security
> special agents was a report published at
> http://www.aztlan.net/juba_video.htm
> The report has been removed and a notice substituted
> to explain its removal to La Voz de Aztlan readers.
>
> The special agent in charge of the operation was in constant
> communication, through a hand held device, with others
> outside the headquarters of La Voz de Aztlan. This
> operation by the government may be related to the recent
> revelation that the Bush Administration has been spying on
> American citizens without judicial permission.
>
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