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jimweasel's coworker N- to show up in a couple of hours to take some of the empty boxes off of my hands. So if you are particularly attached to any of them and would like them back please let me know now so I can go and pull them out. Otherwise I'm going to happily give her every last one she'll take.
In other news the gloriousodogoddess just sent me this article on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is apparently trying to rustle up some moles they can send into those wretched hives of scum and villainy otherwise known as vegan potlucks:
What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”
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Carroll’s story echoes a familiar theme. During the lead-up the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, the NYPD’s Intelligence Division infiltrated and spied on protest groups across the country, as well as in Canada and Europe. The program’s scope extended to explicitly nonviolent groups, including street theater troupes and church organizations.
There were also two reported instances of police officers, dressed as protestors, purposefully instigating clashes. At the 2004 Republican National Convention, the NYPD orchestrated a fake arrest to incite protestors. When a blond man was “arrested,” nearby protestors began shouting, “Let him go!” The helmeted police proceeded to push back against the crowd with batons and arrested at least two. In a similar instance, during an April 29, 2005, Critical Mass bike ride in New York, video footage captured a “protestor”—in reality an undercover cop—telling his captor, “I’m on the job,” and being subsequently let go.
One wonders where they're looking for right wing protesters for the Democratic Convention. Gun clubs? Pro life meetings? Church groups? The local Walmart?
Well I'm sure the FBI is giving equal time to them, I mean to do otherwise would be illegal, immoral and unethical and heaven knows our government wouldn't engage in anything like that...right?
Right?
jimweasel's coworker N- to show up in a couple of hours to take some of the empty boxes off of my hands. So if you are particularly attached to any of them and would like them back please let me know now so I can go and pull them out. Otherwise I'm going to happily give her every last one she'll take.In other news the glorious
odogoddess just sent me this article on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is apparently trying to rustle up some moles they can send into those wretched hives of scum and villainy otherwise known as vegan potlucks:What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”
[...]
Carroll’s story echoes a familiar theme. During the lead-up the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, the NYPD’s Intelligence Division infiltrated and spied on protest groups across the country, as well as in Canada and Europe. The program’s scope extended to explicitly nonviolent groups, including street theater troupes and church organizations.
There were also two reported instances of police officers, dressed as protestors, purposefully instigating clashes. At the 2004 Republican National Convention, the NYPD orchestrated a fake arrest to incite protestors. When a blond man was “arrested,” nearby protestors began shouting, “Let him go!” The helmeted police proceeded to push back against the crowd with batons and arrested at least two. In a similar instance, during an April 29, 2005, Critical Mass bike ride in New York, video footage captured a “protestor”—in reality an undercover cop—telling his captor, “I’m on the job,” and being subsequently let go.
One wonders where they're looking for right wing protesters for the Democratic Convention. Gun clubs? Pro life meetings? Church groups? The local Walmart?
Well I'm sure the FBI is giving equal time to them, I mean to do otherwise would be illegal, immoral and unethical and heaven knows our government wouldn't engage in anything like that...right?
Right?
