The Activist and the FBI (NYT article)

[KBCraig]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/us/29surveillance.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp

AUSTIN, Tex. — A fat sheaf of F.B.I. reports meticulously details the surveillance that counterterrorism agents directed at the one-story house in East Austin. For at least three years, they traced the license plates of cars parked out front, recorded the comings and goings of residents and guests and, in one case, speculated about a suspicious flat object spread out across the driveway.

"The content could not be determined from the street," an agent observing from his car reported one day in 2005. "It had a large number of multi-colored blocks, with figures and/or lettering," the report said, and "may be a sign that is to be used in an upcoming protest."

Actually, the item in question was more mundane.

"It was a quilt," said Scott Crow, marveling over the papers at the dining table of his ramshackle home, where he lives with his wife, a housemate and a backyard menagerie that includes two goats, a dozen chickens and a turkey. "For a kids' after-school program."

[Jim Johnson]

"Mr. Crow counts five supposed fellow activists who were reporting to the F.B.I."

[KBCraig]

"Mr. Crow counts five supposed fellow activists who were reporting to the F.B.I."

And of course, there have been, currently are, and will be in the future, informants in the NH liberty movement.

[highline]

"Mr. Crow counts five supposed fellow activists who were reporting to the F.B.I."

And of course, there have been, currently are, and will be in the future, informants in the NH liberty movement.

What a boring job that would be for an undercover fed.....  considering just about everything that goes on here is discussed publicly.

Anyone who shows up and starts talking about violence, well, we know who that probably is.

[KBCraig]

There was one guy I always had my suspicions about, who disappeared very suddenly and completely.

[highline]

I do believe I know who you're speaking of.

[Russell Kanning]

when someone proposes that we use violence to solve our problems, we can have him buy the next round of drinks

[David]

"Mr. Crow counts five supposed fellow activists who were reporting to the F.B.I."

And of course, there have been, currently are, and will be in the future, informants in the NH liberty movement.

What a boring job that would be for an undercover fed.....  considering just about everything that goes on here is discussed publicly.

Anyone who shows up and starts talking about violence, well, we know who that probably is.

when someone proposes that we use violence to solve our problems, we can have him buy the next round of drinks

Great idea.  My bar tab is higher than I would like, and the FBI has more money than I do, so I will put my request here.  Screwdriver, double strength, lite ice, make it grey goose vodka, none of that cheap well drink vodka I usually get.