[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] Billings Gazette: FBI visits Green Party official

[Paul Etxeberri]

>
>FBI visits Green Party official
>http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/04/build/state/36-fbi-green-party.inc
>By ALLISON FARRELL
>Gazette State Bureau
>
>GREAT FALLS - Not every protester felt welcome on the
>public streets of Great Falls Thursday.
>
>Paul Stephens, the 57-year-old secretary of the
>Montana Green Party, stayed home during President
>Bush's visit here after the FBI and the U.S. Secret
>Service paid a visit to his house Tuesday. A
>newsletter he sent via e-mail piqued their interest.
>
>"They came to my house six hours after I e-mailed the
>bulletin,'' Stephens said in a phone interview
>Thursday. "They just wanted to know if I knew
>something.''
>
>The newsletter, something Stephens regularly sends out
>on an e-mail list, warned Bush not to come to Montana.
>He said the FBI must have perceived a threat in the
>message.
>
>When the federal agents showed up at his home, they
>wanted to know what the warning meant. Stephens said
>he wanted to warn Bush away from a Montana where
>"people are really pissed.'' He said the federal
>agents were friendly with their questions, but wanted
>to know what he was planning for Bush's visit.
>
>"They wanted to know what I was going to do," he said.
>"They wanted to monitor me."
>
>Stephens had planned to protest as President Bush
>spoke at the fairgrounds, but said he feared
>repercussion from the federal government. Two FBI
>agents, two Secret Service agents and a local police
>officer showed up on his doorstep.
>
>"I'm a little bit cowed now that five guys showed up
>at my house,'' Stephens said. "I've already been
>profiled."
>
>Stephens, however, has no plans to stop sending out
>his political bulletins. In fact, he said his history
>of sending out political newsletters lent him
>credibility with the authorities Tuesday.
>
>"I think I'd be in detention if this was a one-time
>thing,'' Stephens said.
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Paul Etxeberri

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