[Peace] Closing of Urbana IMC performance space may have been done to thwart dissent

[Charles Smith]

The closing of the performance space at the Urbana IMC
3 or 4 months
ago was probably for one reason---to stop the
flourshing of
peace-related dissent. This relates definitely to
Ashcroft and his denuding of some national civil
liberties
and national constitutional freedoms after 9-11.

I can only speculate that a few members of the
Urbana Fire Dept., in the name of silencing peace-
related dissent after the 9-11 attacks (probably, 
those particular firefighters loathe at such
anarchists such as non-violent peace activists)
targeted the
Urbana IMC performance space without any reason to do
so
(there was no written notice from the Urbana Fire
Dept. saying that they will be coming to inspect
the place for fire code violations),
and caused its indefinite closing.

If you can remember the firefighter or firefighters
from the Urbana Fire Dept. (or their badge numbers),
who caused the IMC performance to indefinitely close
in the first place, you
can register a complaint or complaints to the Office
of Professional Standards, if you can find it in
downtown Urbana. The Fire Dept. people involved in
this unfair closing should
be either disciplined or fired.