Just a quick follow up on this post: the Register reports on the legal process in the US to find out who actually seized the servers and why. Some fairly complicated legalese essentially boils down to this:

In the specific circumstances of Indymedia, a process that was started in Texas resulted in the removal of servers in London, knocking out numerous Indymedia web sites. According to the US, Inydmedia has no standing to complain about this or to seek redress, or to find out what it was supposed to have been doing, or who said it was doing it. The UK Government insists the whole matter is nothing to do with it, while the US Government says the matter is closed, flashing the T-word to be on the safe side.

Pretty sick.

However, legal wrangles in the US and their hideous implications aside, what really gets to me is the fact that the equipment was seized in the UK by a foreign power on dubious legal grounds and our government doesn’t seem to want to know. It seems that the rest of the world can’t even voice their views over the US election without being told to shut up and mind their own business, but if the FBI wants to waltz over here and help itself to anything it likes they’re welcome and there’s nothing anyone can do or say about it.