Hi Everyone.

On Friday afternoon, America’s Debate was served with a federal injunction requiring the redaction of certain materials contained on AmericasDebate.com. Jaime and I were both separately served with papers.

On Saturday morning, we had an emergency meeting with our attorney to discuss the injunction. The main focus of the meeting was to determine if it is legal, and if it is enforceable.

On Monday, our attorney will be filing a motion on our behalf to attempt to block the enforcement of this injunction. We strongly believe that we will prevail in having this motion granted due to jurisdiction conflicts. The original motion was filed in the 4th Circuit in Virginia, but America’s Debate, Inc. is located within the 11th district.

In the mean time, we have been advised that it is in our best interest to comply with the injunction, albeit on a (hopefully) temporary basis. As a result, you will obviously notice that we have been forced to redact certain information contained on the forum. Rest assured that we have full backups of this information, and are prepared to restore it as soon as our motion is granted.

Unfortunately, the injunction states that we are not permitted to discuss this in very much detail—we cannot name the agency that filed the injunction, we’re not allowed to state the reasons for the injunction beyond “national security reasons,” and we’re not even allowed to cite the section of the federal code under which the injunction was filed.

We should have more information on Monday about this unfortunate development and its impact on the future of .

Thank you for your patience, and if you have any questions, feel free to PM Jaime or me.

Thanks,

Mike