Carlos Montes and the U.S. Security State: A Cautionary Tale
Submitted on July 11, 2011
By Chris Hedges - Truthdig
On May 17 at 5:00 in the morning the Chicano activist Carlos Montes got a wake-up call at his home in California from Barack Obama’s security state. The Los Angeles County sheriff’s SWAT team...kicked down his door, burst into his house with their weapons drawn, handcuffed him in his pajamas and hauled him off to jail. Montes...was one of the organizers of the demonstrations outside the 2008 Republican National Convention...and he faces trial along with 23 other anti-war activists...as well as possible charges by a federal grand jury.
