Free Radio San Diego was paid a visit this morning by the FCC:

On Thursday morning, July 21st, 2005, the FCC and US Marshalls executed a raid against Free Radio San Diego. This raid (in a nutshell) took all of our broadcast equipment, including antenna, transmitter, cable, computers, audio mixing equipment, and other essential hardware.

It was understood that this raid was coming. Not from anything that happened as of late, but hey.. if you roll the dice against the FCC, there’s a pretty high chance (roughly 100%) that they will do something else other than sit around and lament.

No one was arrested, all of our spare equipment is intact, and we have absolutely no plans to pack up and go home. We will be having a regular staff meeting to discuss the situation, and probably a public meeting as well. Our next announcement will be on this website, no later than 22 July 2005, 2100 PST.

An interview about the raid can be downloaded at their Web site.