Today schools and homes where raided by law enforcement agencies around the world (Reuters). More than 120 searches were conducted in a 24-hour period in 27 US states and 10 countries in an effort to dismantle organizations known by such names as Fairlight, Kalisto, Echelon, Class, Project X and APC, officials said According to the Miami Herald.
In Arizona Federal agents raided schools (azcentral.com article). In The Netherlands student homes where raided (Expatica article and this editorial by Leigh Phillips) in Enschede, Utrecht, Delft and Groningen. Among the other countries in which FBI searches have been conducted are Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Singapore, Sweden and Great Britain.
Now, since when can the FBI determine when and where raids should take place here in The Netherlands and other European countries? Didn't we have our own legal system? What's considered illegal in the US might be very normal in The Netherlands. Like smoking weed and prostitution. I think we are too liberal in The Netherlands but it's our call. These actions shouldn't take place just because the FBI wants to. The weird thing is that nowhere did i here anything that suggests any involvemend of the Dutch Justice Department or politics. The news is just that raids took place requested by the FBI.... i think that's scary. Before you know they start raiding abortion clinics in The Netherlands because once they helped an American citizen. The US already has the 'Hague invasion act' that, simple stated, says "it's ok to invade The Neterlands".
What funny was, to me, that the FIOT was involved. They're like the Dutch tax police. Now why was that?
And what I think, when European countries get up on the internet and steel property from US companies, then the US has every right to want to punish them. I do believe, they should do that through our own legal system.
At moments like that you wonder why you actually want to live or in my case, live, in the US...