-15 04.19

Open Source Resistance has Print ads in the weekly papers in many US cities this week.

Austin Chronicle
Austin, TX

Seattle Weekly
Seattle, WA

City Paper
Philadelphia, PA

Weekly Dig
Boston, MA

Village Voice
New York, NY

Orlando Weekly
Orlando, FL

OC Weekly
Orange County, CA

Chicago Reader
Chicago, IL

San Francisco Guardian
San Francisco, CA

LA Weekly
Los Angeles, CA

We weren't lying. You have a voice.

http://www.actpatriotic.net was found by brute force hacking by scanning the subnets used by the Year Zero sites (some say this is "cheating").

It is still in PilgrimStream stage.

Also this fake story (the people that were really "detained" were questioned by the "police" and let go. they were taken back to the area where the bus dropped off the others and were able to collect their belongings and go without incident):

"Hello everyone: We are the two girls who were detained at the resistance meeting last night. This is our first time posting a message as the vikingtwins, because we want to remain as anonymous as possible. You never know who is reading these threads. We do feel it necessary to share our experience of what happened to us.

As far as the information about the plants, we cannot say for sure, but we suspect there were at least two. However, the police who busted in were very real as was the sobering experience of spending the night in jail.

Here are each of our accounts:

Vikingtwin 1's account:

During the piano solo of the Frail the swat team busted through the door and rushed at us. They were shouting and immediately started pushing us around. When I tried to defend myself and ask what was going on the response I got was the muzzle of a gun pressed to my chest. At that point I lost it. The next thing was a blur, but when I came to I was wrestling on the floor with one of the police. It was surreal, like an out of body experience. Next, I felt a sharp pain at the back of my head followed by the sound of a crunch as my body was being flung into the air. Another cop was dragging me by my hair, then he threw me up against the wall. He put the gun to the back of my head and told me not to move. Behind me I could hear the band shouting and fighting with the officers.

Vikingtwin 2's account:

When the cops busted in there were loud bangs and a deafening alarm. I was confused when a cop came at me shouting. He started shoving me around, which seriously pissed me off. I struggled to get away, but he shoved me down and slammed me into the wall. I could hear more yelling and I know there was a struggle with the band, but all I could see was the wall. About a minute later I was handcuffed with plastic cuffs and led me outside where I saw with my friend, vikingtwin 1, standing handcuffed.

Here's our combined experience of what took place next:

Outside we were questioned for at least 45 minutes. They asked us questions like, "why were we there" and "what was going on", "what was the nature of the meeting we had attended". We told them it was a concert and a gathering of people who are concerned about the future of this country. We tried to make a point that our very being detained was a violation of our civil liberties, but communication seemed futile.

Eventually a Sherrif's van showed up and the took us to Central Jail, downtown. They charged us with unlawful assembly, resisting arrest, and battery of a police officer for vikingtwin1.

In the morning we were taken before a judge and pled not guilty. He dropped one of the charges and set the bail. Later, we were bailed out by someone involved with the band who didn't want to be identified. That's all we know.

One more thing, after having this experience we've realized. Now is the time for us to create a community of resistance. We wish more people would have stayed behind to fight. If so, maybe things would have gone differently. Now is the time to stand up for what we believe, if we don't join together, than separately we will surely fall.

Thanks to the mysterious person who bailed us out. (We think we know who you are)

Vikingtwins"

"i call BS on viking twin ... there is absolutley no way you will get me to believe that was a real raid ... those firecracker gun shots and that whack alarm were almost comical .... if it were a real raid not one person would have gotten out that door with out being questioned and Information (name ,address.etc.) taken from them
i love the whole idea of making YZ a little closer to life but dont think im gunna buy into the fallacy of that raid being real..."


"First of all those weren't gunshots, they were flashbang grenades meant to startle and confuse a crowd. Later, I asked the Deputies why were they shooting in the air and he laughed and said they were grenades not gunshots. They are used by police for crowd control.

Second, we were not the only ones taken in. There were others who never made it on the bus. I guess they grabbed whoever they could get their hands on (i saw a bunch of the roadies lined up). Everyone else ran. They could only get so many of us at a time.

In the end, you can believe whatever you want. But I can tell you, I can still smell the stench of piss from that disgusting "processing room" we spent the night in ."