Tallbloke a fellow recipient blog of the climategate emails, and linked on the right, was raided today in what seems to be a coordinated effort by Metropolitan Police, the Norfolk Constabulary and the Computer Crime division and the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division. His home was raided and computers were taken for ‘examination’.
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UPDATE: Tallbloke and I both received the following notification from the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division and forwarded by Ryan at WordPress. ClimateAudit is also mentioned yet I’m not certain that Steve Received notice. It seems that the larger paid blogs may not have received any notice.U.S. Department of Justice
Criminal Division
1301 New York Avenue, NW, 6th floor
Washington, DC 20005
PHONE: 202-353-2854
FAX: 202-514-6113
December 9, 2011
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Automattic Inc.
60 29th Street #343
San Francisco, CA 94110
Attn: law-enforcement@wordpress.com
Re: Request for Preservation of Records
Dear Automattic Inc.:
Pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 2703(f), this letter is a formal request for the preservation of all stored communications, records, and other evidence in your possession
regarding the following domain name(s) pending further legal process: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com, http://noconsensus.wordpress.com, and http://climateaudit.org (“the Accounts”) from 00:01 GMT Monday 21 November 2011 to 23:59 GMT Wednesday 23 November 2011.
I request that you not disclose the existence of this request to the subscriber or any other person, other than as necessary to comply with this request. If compliance with this request might result in a permanent or temporary termination of service to the Accounts, or otherwise alert any user of the Accounts as to your actions to preserve the information described below, please contact me as soon as possible and before taking action.
Related: In an unrelated story, according to Richard Tol, IPCC has told its WG2 scientists that they are above the law on freedom of information.
More at WUWT.
For old times sake….

The truly scary thing is that the Gores & Suzukis of this world would take us there. Remember Dr Fruitfly saying that politicians who don’t bow to the global warming agenda should be thrown in jail.
Rainbow 6 by Tom Clancy is is an excellent novel about just this kind of environmental extremism.
mike
After Tallbloke gets his computers back he might not want to use them for anything private. He might want to process millions of files on the internet in case someone is monitoring them.
Freedom, Freedom, where art thou?
Yowzers…that would explain uncle Mo on the Ceeb this morning…
Don’t you just love Eric Holder and the Dept of Justice?
He is out on a little fishing expedition.
His fast and furious gun hunting expedition caused the deaths of several Americans and hundreds of Mexican nationals..
But,
someday you get the bear,
and someday the bear gets your ass..
We are still coming after you Eric,
never forget that!
Funny, the media has treated the Climategate files as a non issue – the CBC and MSM took fully 12 days to report Climategate 1 after it broke, and CG 2 is being almost as assiduously ignored.
But yet here we have an internationally coordinated attempt to find the leaker (one would assume).
Looking forward to reading another Mike DeSouza peice on the dying polar bears in the Post media publications tomorrow.
I sure know I won’t be reading about this.
It is self-evident that, in order to make awarmists, the IPCC, various NGOs, the Police, the Governments of the US and UK, and the pseudo-scientists of the UEA look bad, some naughty climate-denying sceptics must have infiltrated various organisations and comspired to set up the latest overkill.
There is a disturbance in the carbon dioxide.
The U. K. really is becoming a police state.
Express dissent over “climate change” and have your computers confiscated.
Criticize immigration and have your kids taken away.
Express disapproval of gays and the cops come round and threaten a hate crimes charge.
All of these have been in the news over the past few months, and posted on SDA.
Margaret Thatcher sure as hell didn’t leave the country like this.
So how much and what kind of “sensitivity training” do U. K. cops have to go through? That’s the first question I would ask.
The truth will set you free, why these people choose to lie is so sad, lives are ruined because of thieves and liars, whether it is money that could have been spent on the homeless or medicine or whatever, it has now been stolen, and the coverup begins. It will only get you in deeper this coverup.
I hate to say it, and I’ve spent too many sleepless nights worrying about it.
Godwins’ Law be damned the Nazis are here.
Now were’s my 12 gauge Remington with a rifled barrel and a laser scope and Magnum slugs mixed with #2 shot Magnum shells alternated in the magazine …………..
O that’s right the cretchien creep made me hide it in Alberta.
BRB.Have to dig it at the ranch I hid it at.
dwright
PS the RCMP already know about that particular siege weapon and
they know that if I fire that then I have a VERY good reason to.
d
When powerful private and government interests find their pet Globull Warming multibillion dollar meal ticket
scam has been derailed every time they get close to the payday window bonanza, that has got to hurt big time.
Unhappy “venture capitalists” out there who provided the seed capital to get this gigantic con up and rolling?
The state flexes its muscle. Americans on this board should thank God again today for the 2nd Amendment.
remember, a most dangerous enemy is the one that believes their *own* lies.
imagine if international sex slavery, drug trafficking, gunrunning or perhaps milk money thieves were persued with such vigour. what a wonderful world it would be…..
seriously, I look at some of these links and ask myself, is this real?
yup.
(does this mean in 2023 I will be forced to consent to the leg of a 5,000 foot tall wind generator be planted in my backyard????)
Lets see now: Climategate2.0 emails appear on a Russian server and people start to download them. Obviously a newsworthy item so the natural response is to repost the file on ones own server. UK police carefully monitor non-Russian sources of the Climategate 2.0 emails and seize the computers of the first person to repost them. That’s the equivalent of arresting the first person to call the police about a bank robbery for the robbery. I don’t think Kafka could have written anything as bizarre as this Climategate sequel.
Curious how the British police have no interest in pursuing the Russian origin of the new emails. Britain has now become officially insane. I realize that DSM IV categories don’t apply to societies and it’s a tough call of whether one should use an Axis I psychosis diagnosis or an Axis III disorder such as Alzheimer’s.
What would be interesting to know is how many former carboncredit millionaires in Britain are in government positions of power where they can get the police to do their bidding. The CO2 house of cards is starting to collapse and things are going to get ugly in those parts of the world where the population has been disarmed.
Fishing expedition with beneficial side effect of frightening some bloggers.
This telegraphs that the identity of the email leaker (not hacker) is unknown, and they are clueless.
We’re now 2 for 2 on these climate scam meetings, with another load of damaging emails in the breach.
Once upon a time, The People used to trust leaders, institutions, and media. “Awakening” is the realization that this trust is misplaced. In each of these three columns, trust is mortally wounded.
Trust is very fragile. Once damaged, the repair is a long and delicate process.
These raids demonstrate that the response of these three columns to the erosion of trust is authoritarian, blunt, and hamfisted. A classic positive feedback system.
None of this will end well. That’s why I am stocking up on helmets.
I miss W.
We are getting a huge wind generator planted near our back yards in Saskatoon. It’s partly that it’s near a west side area so who cares? It’s partly that it’s green so people don’t really matter.
L, look at the bright side, the wind turbine should cut down on the number of seagulls taking a dump on your house roof.
Reason # 475,267,963 to hate the cops.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
Perhaps I am the resident authority on counter-insurgency….
“Every time you shoot the revolution grows…”
On that principle, this Police action, given that in this era cannot be concealed, is just bad press which discredits “the cause” even further.
Many individuals who may be indifferent to the AGW agenda, will react to this overt Gestapo like, Police State action.
Otherwise unengaged elements will realize that the agenda is not really about climate/weather at all….
2012 National Defense Authorization Act. is creating much concern south of the medicine line.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/05/the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-the-greatest-threat-to-civil-liberties-americans-face/
Yeah Godwin’s Law much like frivilous charges of “racism” was a clever device to suppress criticism of the totalitarian aspects of social-democrats…..
Both are now, largely meaningless due to over-use.
If the founding fathers who wrote the US constitution could come back to see that clip, they would change the 2nd amendment from the ‘right’ to bear arms to the ‘obligation’ to bear arms.’
Right after someone answered their question, “What is a car?”
If I ever got that close to a green nazin in traffic with the RV I’d flush the gray water tank on her so she could understand how bacteria are good for the earth.
Godwins’ Law be damned the Nazis are here.
Posted by: dwright at December 15, 2011 4:15 AM
Hot damn, dwright. I’ve been thinking exactly this lately. A couple days back I read at Casey Research an excerpt from a book in the late 1930s by a German writer explaining how totaltarianism crept in gradually, incrementally.
We’ve all heard the standard and now cliche question: how could the land of Bach Beethoven and Brahms have installed a Nazi regime?
And I had an epiphany: awareness of Godwin’s Law, and the fervent wish not to be ridiculed for demonstrating it, actually keeps us from recognizing and responding to creeping totalitarianism.
You are right: The Nazis are indeed here. Damn the censor Godwin whoever he is! (Is he a liberal?)
re Audi’s super-bowel ad….
Somehow I am dubious about Audi’s intent….other than selling their diesel car….
I doubt it was a blunder like the Brit eco-nazi…”NO PRESSURE” ad….
It is easy to view this as a push back against the eco-nazi’s….
Tallbloke not a suspect.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/14/uk-police-seize-computers-of-skeptic-in-england/
from whattsupwiththat on previous post:
UPDATE: I’ve been in contact with Roger (Tallbloke) and he tells me that he is not a suspect, and that they’ll clone his hard drives and return the computers to him. – Anthony
UPDATE2: 12/15/9AM It seems that the story has gone viral on blogs. Four skeptic blogs are in the top ten of all WordPress blogs today. While I’ve seen 2 at a time on CG1 and CG2, four has never happened before. This is from my wordpress.com dashboard:
I think we ought to have a new reality show, with Judge Judy handing out the punishment:
When Rent Seekers Fail: http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/12/14/terence-corcoran-sun-burned/
Did the US Justice Dept even do this when national security is compromised on WikiLeaks. The Warmists seem to have more stroke than the Defence Dept and CIA put together. Seriously, what’s going on?
Shouldn’t Godwin’s Law be invalid, if the comparision is apt or valid? If it looks like a duck, how can you not thusly describe it?
Did the US Justice Dept even do this when national security is compromised on WikiLeaks?
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Same thought..
Obama begged WikiLeaks not to expose secrets,
then turns and goes after innocent bloggers.
Our government is full of climate shite for brains.
The ability to collect billions in taxes on a natural trace gas only comes along once. The scam has been exposed but the dream of getting rich on nothing will linger on. Every politicians wet dream.
L, did you know that det cord can cut quarter inch steel plate? Just another piece of useless information for you to file away.
Loki said: “That’s the equivalent of arresting the first person to call the police about a bank robbery for the robbery.”
Sometimes they do that if the robbery makes them look bad.
Bottom line, this is a reflexive @ss coverage response by an over stuffed bureaucracy that has been embarrassed. They immediately arrest whoever is handy to make it look like they are Doing Something Important.
This is why we need -less- government.
By the way, that commercial isn’t even remotely funny. Lizzie May would set that up in a heartbeat.
Trofim Lysenko lives again! Here is a photo:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Lysenko_with_Stalin.gif
Lao Tzu (6th century B.C.): “The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished…The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be…”
Read more: What is Laissez-Faire? http://dailyreckoning.com/what-is-laissez-faire/#ixzz1gfOfHud6
felis corpulentis – a few things have changed in 7000 years. What’s an artificial taboo, screwing your sister?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8tfuBIutLI&feature=related