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Saturday, June 18, 2005

Paranoia strikes deep....

Remember when we all used to wonder who the agent was? The spy in our midst? The infiltrator who was spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt?  The provocateur who was spinning wild schemes of gratuitous violence and plotting revolutionary crime sprees?

Well, we soon figured out that yes, even paranoids have real enemies and yes, there were spies everywhere.  The Washington D.C. area was especially fertile ground for infiltrating radical groups. Besides the state, county and local cops, every major government intelligence agency was there along with the US military. Not to mention whatever undercover agents and informants various foreign powers may have had running around.

It was the old Mad Magazine Spy vrs. Spy vrs Spy come to life in living color....Agent 99 on speed....Inspector Closeau cloned and programmed....

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I think people should legaly buy and learn to use guns. If the NRA was a left leaning organization Al Gore would be serving his second term.

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I remember Dee at the Lincoln Ave. house. She hit on me a few times but I remember thinking that if I was going to fool around with another woman it’d be with one of the Furies. Dee wasn’t very bright and that was a turn-off for me. The Furies kinda disappeared after a few years, at least in part because of ego clashes but also because of ideology differences.

I was pretty naive and trusting back then, so I probably wasn’t as careful as I should’ve been around the suspects.

Interesting thing about infiltrators and those who employ them. Their mentalities are completely different from ours, so their perception of what we were doing was severely warped. In the end, though, they perceived that we were a threat to their power...and they were right.

S

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I remember Dee.  She was a troubled person who was into drugs and promiscuous sex.  I guess the adventure of being a police informer was just another high she got.

Miami was a real battle.  We had an informer in our immediate group that we had to ditch before we could even get close to the Convention Center.

Nevertheless, a group of 30 or so of the Route 1 Brigade got close enough to the Convention Center to confront delegates going to the Hall.  One had their credentials snatched by a Brigade member and another limoisine had it’s window broken by a Brigade member’s flag staff.

The Delegate in the limoisine was interviewed in the Miami papers the next day and said, “It was just like the Russian Revolution.” She was overstating things a bit but we took it as a complement.

Your description of the battles at the park brought back memories.  It was a bit like hit and run tactics on both sides.  The police would drive by and shoot tear gas into the park and demonstrators would respond by heaving rocks at the police cars.  These battles went on for several nights.

I met several other police informers through the course of my activism.  One wanted to sell me eight British Sten guns.  Two others were interested in planting bombs.  The quickest way to get rid of them was to call a meeting a renounce violence.  They quickly lost interest.



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