The Military Spies on Anarchists in Olympia

[thinkliberty]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/28-14

This time it was done by someone working for the U.S. military, which may be illegal.

It happened out in Olympia, Washington, where a guy who went by the name of John Jacob infiltrated a group of anarchists working with Students for a Democratic Society and the Port Militarization Resistance. This went on for a couple of years.

When the activists found him out just last week, they were shocked.

"John Jacob was actually a close friend of mine," Brendan Maslauskas Dunn told Amy Goodman. "We hung out. We gave workshops together on grassroots direct democracy and anarchist struggle."

But John Jacob was not who he purported to be.

His real name is John Towery, and he's no anarchist. He's a member of the Force Protection Service at Fort Lewis.

[Jim Johnson]

Alright.... which one of you is the ARMY loser from the Force Protection Services?   

[thinkliberty]

If you follow the rule of 'don't do anything immoral,' (Don't do something you would not put your face on video doing) then you really don't have to worry about infiltrators.

The infiltrator(s) will eventually go away or be found out.

[Puke]

Alright.... which one of you is the ARMY loser from the Force Protection Services?  

[Jim Johnson]

   Why does force need protection?

[Kat Kanning]

I don't think Randy Weaver+family or the Davidians did anything immoral.  A bunch of them are dead because of those bastards.

[liftsboxes]

FPS / FSP ?

[dalebert]

If you follow the rule of 'don't do anything immoral,' (Don't do something you would not put your face on video doing) then you really don't have to worry about infiltrators.

The infiltrator(s) will eventually go away or be found out.

Applause for that! We were just talking about this last night at movie night. What a waste of resources to put an infiltrator in a Keene liberty activism network when we talk about everything we plan on doing on the Internet in publicly accessible format! Unlike bureaucrats and LEOs of the State, we have nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to hide.