] Raisethefist.com is not shutting down, and the RTF Direct
] Action Network will continue to grow and remain active.
] A 1 year sentence is not the end of this. It's just the
] begining.

Sherman Austin has been released from prison. He is the first and only person that I am aware of who has ever severed time in prison in the United States for thought crime. What might have been a juvenile fascination with anarchy will now be a life long mission. People who are fucked over like this don't grow out of it.

Austin is a canary in a coal mine. In the wake of 9/11 no one was interested in the idea that he actually didn't DO anything. He just operated a website. They nailed his ass to the wall anyway. First Amendment be damned...

I don't like Austin's politics. He is the worst sort of leftist. Motivated by blind hatred. But if he doesn't have the right to freedom of speech, then freedom of speech isn't a right anymore.

Raisethefist's Sherman Austin PATRIOT-Throttled