BlueRibbon, what we can learn from others!
Posted by Chuck on 2026-September-30 19:03:22, Wednesday|
I noted that BlueRibbon/Brian was talking about "doing anything" to change our predicament. Immediately, i thought of someone fooling him (and others) into getting trapped up in stuff like the excerpts below. Just like an undercover cop once tried to do to me after i had been bringing up MAP values in a certain community: Sell me automatic weapons! My intent here is not to scare, but to educate. i figure Brian a bit more sophisticated than i think, but i still think it's worth sharing this for ANYONE seeking to organize or build up your network. Question: i wonder if any of the stuff discussed below has happened in our own groups, such as in Canada or The Netherlands. And while I understand that many of you HATE being labeled "radical", that won't stop these underhanded spooks from attacking you on exactly those grounds! from the link (below) : COINTELPRO The events surrounding the 1990 bombing [of Judi Bari and her male friend, Darryl] can only be explained in the context of COINTELPRO, J. Edgar Hoover's Counterintelligence Program to "disrupt, misdirect, isolate and neutralize" radical groups in the US. The techniques of COINTELPRO include infiltration, surveillance, agents provocateurs, disinformation campaigns, fake documents, and framing or assassinating political leaders. The FBI operation against Earth First! in Arizona was a classic example of COINTELPRO tactics (see Mark Davis' articles in the last two EF! Journals). Agents provocateurs infiltrated the group and misdirected them into doing an action that they would not have done on their own. The FBI also attempted to frame Dave Foreman, and certainly succeeded at neutralizing him as a spokesman and inspirational figure in Earth First! The man in charge of my case at the FBI was Richard Held, director of the San Francisco FBI office. Held has a 25-year history as one of the principle operatives of COINTELPRO. He is known for producing fake documents, including death threats and insulting letters and cartoons, and sending them back and forth between different factions of the Black Panther Party in order to terrorize or enrage the leaders and destabilize the group. Held was personally involved in the framing of Black Panther Geronimo jiJaga (Pratt) and American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier, both of whom have been in jail for decades for crimes that they did not commit. I cannot describe the cold terror of waking up in the hospital, crippled for life, and finding out that Richard Held was accusing me of blowing myself up with my own bomb. COINTELPRO was publicly exposed in 1971 when the Black Panthers, tired of seeing their activists murdered and their group destroyed, broke into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and liberated their files. In 1975, the Senate Judiciary Committee conducted a congressional investigation and found the FBI's COINTELPRO activities to be illegal, involving massive violations of constitutional rights. The FBI claims to have discontinued COINTELPRO after this exposure. Yet in the [1990] bombing case I find not only the resurgence of COINTELPRO, but also the privatization of COINTELPRO. Not just the FBI, but now private corporations as well, are using the same counter-intelligence tactics that were declared illegal in the 1970's to try to discredit and destroy Earth First! in the 1990's. The Uzi Photo The effort to disrupt Ukiah [California] Earth First! and paint me as a terrorist began in November 1988, a year and a half before the bombing. At that time, a man named Irv Sutley came to Ukiah to attend an abortion clinic defense that I had organized in coalition with Ukiah Earth First! and other local groups. We were truly outrageous at that demo, singing our newly written song, "Will the Fetus Be Aborted" to the Operation Rescue thugs. I knew Irv, although not well, from my earlier work in the Central America movement in Sonoma County. Irv was traveling with a good friend of mine, and after the demonstration we all went back to Darryl's house. We talked about our recent successful blockade of Cahto Wilderness, in which I had been arrested for vehicular trespass. We smoked dope and fantasized about imaginary actions, including creating and oil spill in our pro-oil congressman Doug Bosco's back yard swimming pool. After a while, Irv opened the trunk of his car and showed us that he was carrying a modified Uzi submachine gun, which he told us was legal. We took turns posing for photos with the gun, laughing and trying to look tough. Irv placed the gun in my hands, showed me how to hold it, and arranged it so my Earth First! shirt was clearly visible. About a month later, unknown to me at the time, the Ukiah Police received a copy of the photo of me holding the Uzi, along with a letter from an anonymous informant. The letter combined half-truths and outright lies to make me look like a terrorist. [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonimisierungsdienst] |
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