Police Spies Chosen to Lead War Protest
Two Oakland police officers working undercover at an anti-war protest in May 2003 got themselves elected to leadership positions in an effort to influence the demonstration …
… undercover Officers Nobuko Biechler and Mark Turpin had been elected to be leaders in the May 12 demonstration an hour after meeting protesters that day …
… "I call that being totalitarian," said Jack Heyman, a longshoremen's union member who took part in the May 12 march.
--Ahem … Jack, I call that being stupid. Does anyone have functioning instincts? Maybe the group that led this event, Direct Action to Stop the War, needed help from folks who can smell a cop a mile away. Or, as Tyrone would mutter under his breath, bacon bacon bacon.
More likely DASW was simply doing their "job" and throwing work and headlines to ACLU, of course. Who can you trust or join if State spies infiltrate this easily and fellow protestors are this gullible?
DASW no longer has a valid website, but have archives here. Hmmm. Now would your government create "activist" groups for you? Sure they would, and have. Lots and lots of them, some decades old, many founded in the 1980s in anticipation of current events. There's a whole lot of "acting" in activism these days.
2 comments:
My graduation from the school of political activism came from Camp Casey, which started with one plant (a downdtrodden recovering alcoholic vet who was the self-appointed greeter for the sporadic guests who arrived on the first two evenings of Cindy's stay). From there, infiltrators grew to include other ill-fitting busybodies plus various "independent" photogs and journalists running around asking people questions. In the background was The Peace House insinuating itself as organizers and feeders of the growing crowds. On my last visit to Camp Casey (II), I stayed along the outskirts of the camp and observed...for four hours. Ahhh, the tangled webs of signals, nods and glances...
(I wish to thank my hippie boyfriend of the 70s who dealt drugs and taught me a thing or two about who's who, what's what, when and how to slip away, how to keep a low profile, mouth shut, eyes wandering regally, and ears open.)
The infiltration of any group opposed to the status quo is a given. When all is said and done, these groups go the way of John "Every vote must count, every vote must be counted" Kerry, and Cindy "world-renowned antiwar activist" Sheehan.
If the sheeple wake up and start walking toward the capital, I may reconsider participating in a "movement".
Kathy F.
Kathy,
Agree. I would consider walking toward the capital if there's ever a "movement."
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