I had a lot of fun at Standing Rock. The spontaneous resistance in Cannonball, ND, and the environmental movement it spearheaded, was for me the most inspiring uprising of 2016. My favorite memories were watching the ever increasing flow of distant tribal delegations make their formal running entrances into the main camp. Indigenous peoples came from across the world to join the largest NDN resistance gathering since the Little Big Horn. I was encouraged to see the keen interest of the international press and documentary filmmakers even though local and national media stayed clear. Standing Rock was also not all that it was billed to be. It wasn't going to be DAPL's Last Stand. The scene was dominated by patriarchal religious elders who stymied initiative, unity, and best practice at every turn. If it wasn't for the actions led by the Red Warrior Camp, maligned and disowned by tribal leadership, the gathered "Water Protectors" would not have protected or resisted a thing. Every media victory, every provoked outrage, and every setback for the DAPL was orchestrated against the orders of the official organizers, whose sabotage was abetted by the usual passivist NGO allies and their PC scolds. Reservation chairman Dave Archambault II turned out to be made of straw. When protest momentum threatened to become unstoppable, his agency-indian cronies capitulated to the USG. "DAPL Dave" as he came to be called, evicted the camp himself. (That's not Archambault above. That's FBI-informant Heath Harmon, who set up Denver activist Red Fawn. More on that below.) DAPL-Dave's true colors were known to Occupy Denver visitors to Standing Rock. Early on we stumbled into a secret meeting at the casino which Dave and his cronies held with the National Guard, the BIA, and state troopers. The forward North Camp, the only encampment which actually blocked the pipeline, was already being surrendered. Yes, back in September! We were ejected under the pretext of being non-native. Meanwhile real Native American activists were furiously searching the halls to attend or disrupt a falsely rumored press conference. Outside the secret meetings, the same cronies pretended to be the camp's champions and wielded all the authority. The counterproductive leadership edicts were laughable: No photos. Wait, what?! No 'isms. Yes let's throw education out with the bathwater. No activists affiliated with "Anonymous". Um, why? Women must wear skirts at the sacred fire. Hahaha in subzero weather! Camp needs: meat, wood. Unpalatable for environmentalists, also not sustainable. Another self-defeating hierarchy was the legal branch. At face value it was great to see lawyers stepping forward to offer their services. Their pitch was standard: you're on your own, use public defenders, but we'll provide coordination and advice. In practice they've proven to be a fiasco. The difficulties are being blamed on the ferocity of federal prosecutors and the hostility of racist North Dakota juries. Yeah, no. So basically, the narrative is still being written by defeatists. The hundreds of water protectors who face charges have had mixed results in
Tag: Infiltrators
CSPD Intelligence doesn’t have much
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO- Like the term Military Intelligence, "police intelligence" is an oxymoron. At least that's the old joke. Wednesday's hearing about the CSPD's undercover operation against the Colo. Springs Socialists reinforced the adage. The good news is that Metro VNI, that is, Vice Narcotics & Intelligence, doesn't have much intelligence, as in smarts, haha, OR constructive data. The impetus of CSPD's efforts to infiltrate local activists has been to track ANTIFA, a nefarious worldwide anti-fascist organization apparently. Lieutenant Mark Comte, who heads Metro-VNI, testified to what they know so far. ANTIFA members wear black and cover their faces. When protesters do that, they're Antifa.
Chicago Police Infiltrators less for law enforcement than media intervention
CHICAGO- The Chicago Police Department congratulates itself for using undercover officers to monitor activists, even though protester violence was negligible, but don't admit the active role they played in dampening mood, fouling media images, and disrupting grassroots.
Four Occupy tormentors unmasked
Occupy Colo. Springs held a NO WAR ON IRAN demo today, counter- protested by some soldiers who think any antiwar criticism of their mission fails to Support The Troops. (Horrifyingly curious don't you think, that US soldiers would already consider war with Iran as their mission?!) Joining them it turned out, were four of OCS's sneakiest saboteurs. I got them with one camera click! From right to ultra-right: Raven Martinez aka Briaunna Webbing aka Occupy Csprings, Michael Clifton aka Agent of Doubt, Ian Carman aka "Father" Ian, and Ryan Butler aka Ry King aka Lone Wolf. My policy until now was not to dignify any of these Facebook twits with attention, but their rumor campaign against OCS has become so virulent and untrue, and their misdeeds are now tipping the balance. Today the entire intersection had to bear personal megaphone taunts, but I'll say that the final straw was yesterday when I learned of misinformation they attempted to spread to the local news. Occupy CS's hand was forced in issuing a public statement about accused-arsonist Kyle Lawrence, because someone asserted Kyle had joined a violent group that had sprung up in OCS. Uh, let's get to the bottom of that one, shall we? WARNING: OCCUDRAMA AHEAD. All of it boring, but these creeps need to crawl back under their mouse pads. Ignoring them hasn't worked, and even though they crave attention, I'll give that a try. Exhibit A At far right is RYAN BUTLER aka Lucky Dog, aka Lone Wolf. When he disrupted OCS GAs he went by "Ry King". The secretive Ryan Butler is half of the Clifton/Butler nerd team that hijacked the "Occupy Colorado Springs" Facebook Open Group. It's got about 400 members, doesn't represent Occupy at all, and is maintained as a launchpad for Tea Party occu-haters under the pretext of "free speech" as decided by its unlisted admins Ryan & Michael. The open group was originally created by authentic occupier Amber Hagen, who in her idealism let all participant have admin privileges. When Amber discovered that haters among the admins kept wrecking the page, she began to delete them. Michael Clifton once recounted at a meeting how he and Ryan scrambled over Skype to keep Amber from shutting them out. They hurriedly deleted Amber's admin access, thus exiling her from her own group. This was the act that inspired Raven Martinez to do the same with the OCS Facebook community page, in all fairness I should say, to prevent others from doing it to her. Ryan's claim to fame in OCS came from a failed coup to share the spokesmanship monopoly held by occupothead Jason Warf, but I digress. Ryan had to step away from OCS after legal trouble from a drunken poker game gone awry, which he tried to blame on authentic occupy vet RTG. Ryan has a criminal record of domestic violence and wears a gun in his home in violation of having lost his permit to carry. That much is not disputed. But Ryan refutes RTG's version
Bill Graber, fake lesbian activist, agent provocateur, threatens websites to try to withdrawn his mug from public view
HELP! Any other sites out there being threatened by Bill Graber, fake lesbian blogger, DADT spoiler and Syria false flag propaganda troll? Now he's pretending copyright infringement, trying to withdraw his ugly mug from public view. He's threatening to sue NMT, our host, and I guess ...half the web. Oh. NEVER MIND. What a hoser. If the "retired Air Force" dude hadn't been unmasked as the fake lesbian blogger "Paula Brooks" giving cover to the more infamous Gay Girl of Damascus Amina Arraf dude, he'd still be infiltrating lesbian blogs, sabotaging their DADT efforts and demoralizing fellow contributors, like a typical COINTELPRO op! When outed by the Washington Post, this is the photo he supplied, now it's all over the internet. In our initial story, we didn't know how much weight to give either his name, or his photo, considering he was the source of both, uncorroborated. Judging by the comments and emails we've received from agent Lez-Dude, he doesn't mind the name "Bill Graber" all over the place, but boy he seems uncomfortable with the picture being out there. Could it be that he's worried that with enough exposure the image will eventually catch the eye of someone who knows his real identity? OR did he give a dead person's picture to the WaPo, and that could be found out? Who knows, it's not like "Graber" is above hiding behind another identity, when he blogged as a deaf lesbian whose "dad" had to handle her phone calls from those dagblast reporters. I'd say his claim to have copyrighted his lonesome image is an invitation for someone from the locality of Fairborn, Ohio to snap a real pic. His phone is 937-305-5518, his IP is 65.185.154.156, my bet would be to show this mug shot around Asian massage parlors outside Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Much legwork has already been done on "Bill Graber" sick puppy who insinuates himself into lesbian conversations to speak abusively to women, but his spooky military MO is going overlooked. Synthesizing the complaints accumulated about "Paula Brooks" yields a pattern unnervingly like an activist-provocateur. Graber claims he was motivated to pose as a lesbian to help the cause of DADT, yet his efforts were chiefly disruptive and harmful. Accounts by fellow bloggers mirror exactly what peace activists experience with undercover cops. By the way, after his unmasking, Graber handed off his site to another non-lesbian, not a man this time, whose husband is in the military. Call me a nut, but I'm inclined to suggest that when the WaPo tracked lesbian "Brooks" to a man, it turned out to be a professional infiltrator, and an agreement was reached with the pro-military WaPo where a reasonably believable profile would be tendered to the public, sooner than out an agent. Thus we have "Graber", this photo, and the following details: retired Air Force, construction worker, 58 years old, from Ohio. That's all. Whose photo? Well the longer that mug is online, the more likely such a question will be answered. Then there will be
Straight blogger confesses he’s lesbian
So a retired Air Force man has to fess up that he was "Paula Brooks," editor of the blog LEZ GET REAL. More critically, Bill Graber, 58, of Ohio, was a shill for fellow hoaxer Thomas MacMaster aka the Gay Girl In Demascus, whose wife Britta Froelicher has yet to be implicated directly, though she's a Syria scholar at a Neocon leaning institution, and as supposed activists, their talking points are concern trollishly generic. With Graber unmasked, LezGetReal is being handed off to alternating erstwhile shill "Linda Carbonell", who says she doesn't use her married name La Victoire lest she jeopardize her husband's job with the government. "Victory?" Hello? Commenters are all LOL because LezGetReal still won't get a real lesbian for an editor, and tittering because Graber and MacMaster flirted online, unknowingly middle-aged-man-on-man. Heehee, yeah, I don't think so. MSM interviewers ponder that no one appeared to intend harm, but aren't they missing a wooded Virginia campus for the trees? If psy ops programs were indeed coordinating trolls, what do you think the motley crew would look like? No doubt you've encountered your share already, a drearily uncreative bunch, frequently on the fringe of the military, with their fingers in many pies, the gay issue being not so distantly DoD-related. "Paula Brooks" was one of the smelly loose ends of the Tom MacMaster Amina Arraf hoax, so I'm glad that someone smoked Graber out. But on the other hand I'm not. I intended, with the title of this post, to lampoon the now repeated twist of lesbian bloggers turning out to be straight men. To get attention now, you'd have to be a straight blogger who is discovered to really be a lesbian. But then no one meant to bring this kind of attention to themselves, you'd think. Maybe you'd be wrong. The worst element of this fraudulent blogger meme, is the seed of mistrust which increasingly poisons the internet. The only edge the established media had on the blogosphere was an inherent credibility, the indoctrination that if something is in print, it must be true. Though MSM journalism has been losing ground to the superior investigative output of the internet, hoaxes such as this work in their favor. Although it's been fun to unmask these frauds, and seek credit for the collar, the more attention paid to the story, the more eroded becomes the public trust. Yes, we've proven that the net will find you out, or more precisely CAN find you out. But what's our success rate? It feels like 100%, but that counts only the identities we question. There's no telling how many frauds remain undetected. And worse, internet sleuths are slashing away at the very anonymity they cherish. To be a credible voice now, you have to be completely out, you have to show your papers basically. Who celebrates that? We may think we've embarrassed MacMaster and Graber and Froelicher and La Victoire, but if they are indeed intelligence spoilers, they can go right back underground and on to the
Protest of police state lures police
COLORADO SPRINGS- Outnumbered! Though we comprised a perfectly respectable half-dozen on the hastily organized protest of FBI tactics meant to intimidate, scouting the city blocks which formed our periphery revealed motorcycle cops poised unseen behind corners. Is that merely obligatory, post-9/11, when activists speak out against intelligence agencies? Except for a building security guard who warned us the elevated planters along the sidewalk were private property, CSPD and state troopers kept an unobtrusive distance -- well, enough to mask their number. Our sign-holding was the usual peaceful vigil, but our minders parked a solitary unmarked cruiser smack in our faces to keep up with [menacing] appearances. The proverbial chill on free speech.
Opposing war is not a crime: stop FBI suppression of antiwar activists JAN 25
COLORADO SPRINGS - JANUARY 25 - Protest the recent FBI raids and the DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed at intimidating members of antiwar and Palestinian rights groups. Join Coloradans For Peace and compatriots beneath the windows of the FBI field office, located in the Plaza of the Rockies downtown, the complex where activists have been prevented from visiting their senator's office, mostly a mall of investment bankers and brokerage firms. Not without irony, the main facade is named for war profiteer consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. Come Tuesday Jan 25, from 4pm to 5pm. Meet on the NE corner of Tejon & Colorado. Some consider the FBI to be the lesser of the US intelligence community's seventeen known evils. Shall we draw the line at surveillance, infiltration and instigation of peace advocacy groups? Eric Holder's Department of Justice won't go after war criminals, torturers, or any facet of President Obama's accelerated abuses on human rights. But they want to target humanitarian groups in hopes of tying their social causes to "terrorism, " the traditional authoritarian label for political rival.
Peaceful protest movement infiltrators Mark Kennedy, Lyn Watson, cops Karen Sullivan, Daniela Cardenas unmasked
Social justice activists across the US are uniting January 25 to protest the infiltration of peaceful protest groups by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. As European environmental organizations reel from the revelation that high-profile activist "Mark Stone," really PC Mark Kennedy, served undercover for London's MET for seven years, the Guardian has confirmed another unnamed infiltrator, identified by activist sources as "Lyn Watson." A longtime Leeds Common Place volunteer, Watson is reportedly serving at another undercover location. Kennedy is in the US evading the blowback of many EU and UK former comrades. As US lawyers fend off grand jury inquiries against chiefly Palestinian-rights advocacy groups, the Minneapolis based Anti-War Committee has obtained confirmation that FBI agent "Karen Sullivan" had been disrupting from their midst since the 2008 RNC. A "Daniela Cardenas" is considered to be her accomplice. While accounts vary between MET officer Mark Kennedy "going native" and privatizing his surveillance services, there are reports that Kennedy had been sexually intimate with a number of the activists he had been infiltrating. The role of "Lyn Watson" becomes critical because her reports would reflect that the authorities knew of and did not halt officer Kennedy's improper conduct. Green activist are debating the merits of releasing details about the infiltrators. Save Iceland made this excellent statement about Kennedy. UPDATE UK: To prevent further details from going public, the comments section has been disabled for the original Guardian article which refuses to name, or unscramble to photograph of Officer A, aka Lyn Watson. A subsequent UK Indymedia article has been deleted together with its thread. Discussion persists at another IMC in Sheffield now suffering under a common ISP hobble of sites designed to serve secure pages through HTTPS, having its certificate called into doubt. As a result visitors are warned by their browser that the site cannot be trusted until they finally desist from clicking through. For the benefit of those timid souls we reprint the comment thread, as of 4PM GMT. Hold on ... 13.01.2011 09:54 It says she disappeared in 2008, but someone is quoted saying "she was present at Drax and Heathrow climate camp actions, against Coryton oil refinery and various anti-capitalist gatherings and protests" ... but the Coryton blockade was last year. Or was there some other Coryton action I wasn't aware of? Shame the Guardian took representations from the cops and no one else. They've even decided against a comments section - maybe in case someone decided to put her name up. I might be missing some key piece of info or argument here, but I really think people have GOT to post her identity up here - people will want to know what info the state now definitely has on them etc. proof-reader Her activist name was... 13.01.2011 10:12 Lyn Watson. Haven't got a photo though. Someone there was a earlier coryton blockade 13.01.2011 10:26 ,,, on fossil fools day. yeah, i don't see a problem in posting her (false) name... though in general i'm not sure what feeding this story is doing for our movement... though i am