Katrina Recovery Activist Outs Himself as FBI Mole

A Katrina relief worker has just outed himself as an FBI mole, and the two men Brandon Darby accuses of planning subversive activity at the RNC have been in federal detention in Minnesota since the convention. They have also been denied bail and face decades in prison - Minnesota's near-Senator Al Franken should look into that.

Note to those trying to rebuild the City of New Orleans, if one of your volunteers turns off the radio every time the Dixie Chicks come on, wears a three piece suit to human rights rallies, storms out of the confession part of the Frost Versus Nixon, or puts invisible quote marks around the word "war crimes," you might be infiltrated by some one more interested in busting protesters than helping rebuild a city brought to its knees by massive federal levee failures.

In an open letter, Darby defended wearing a wire while working at Common Ground with: "It is very dangerous when a few individuals engage in or act on a belief system in which they feel they know the real truth and that all others are ignorant and therefore have no right to meet and express their political views." Which would explain invading Iraq on trumped up intelligence but that's probably not where he was going with this missive.

If it weren't for the time difference, I'd call New Orleans activist John Sinclair of Radio Free Amsterdam, because when John Lennon wrote "Free John Sinclair" the government did. Which then started Nixon and the FBI shadowing Lennon for years in a creepy manner back when protest songs could receive radio airplay.

The Texas Observer article is here: "LIfe's a Snitch", and this from The New York Times.

The trial for Austin residents David McKay and Bradley Crowder is on January 26th, and each could be imprisoned for up to 30 years. I am hoping that within three weeks our new administration stops shadowing those trying to rebuild my city like they are enemy combatants.

Quite literally.

Comments

[galilei]

Instead of sending relief to US citizens in desperate crisis in New Orleans, the Federal government withheld all aid, then when citizens formed grassroots organizations to rebuild themselves, the FBI infiltrates them to spy, sew discord, and provoke discrediting acts of violence.

Remember, if it's not corporate, it's terrorist.

[Twinkie]

Read the full story. THE GUY IS NOT AN FBI AGENT! Anyone who has had the efforts of their own protest ruined by violent crazies with their own agenda would know exactly why this guy did what he did.

[coultersnemesis]

this is disgusting. internal spying on American activist organizations. neighbors inciting and spying on their neighbors. Sounds like n a z i g e r ma n y. Not far off to fa s c i s m now,kiddies. Not far off.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/fbi-proposes-bu.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SypeZjeOrY4

This is the highest t r e a s o n
against the people and nation. spying on Americans.

[coultersnemesis]

I love how those on the Right hate government, until it is the police, FBI, CIA or any other type of secretive authority - then the Right blindly supports them. I never understood this phenomenon.

Did you know that, since a 2004 directive by Bush, the FBI has been extensively building its network of US informants, allowed to spy in US citizens on US soil?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/fbi-proposes-bu.html

You know, informants where highly popular in Hitler’s Germany. I learned this in class, yep, neighbors spying and ratting out neighbors and friends to the SS for small, ridiculous actions perceived to be against the “authority”

I weep for my nation…Nazi Germany is not far off if citizens support the spying and the snitching on neighbors, and especially if they blindly support agencies such as the FBI/. This is SCARY, people, SCARY. Obama, get on it!

When the government elected by the People of this nation cease to LISTEN to the demands of the People, the People absolutely have the right to petition their grievances to the Government, and in the course of 8 long years - evidenced by Cheney’s “So?” comments about the Iraq War being unpopular with the people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SypeZjeOrY4

the “So?” from Bush about false intelligence/LIES (however you choose to see it, the results are still devastating) it is clear that the leadership of this country hold the People’s views and wishes in contempt. Treason.

[galilei]

The informant network is indeed built. And, it gets worse. Meet InfraGuard: http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/3-infragard-the-fbi-deputizes-business/

[coultersnemesis]

Thanks for the link...int­eresting/s­cary as hell...peo­ple, do something about it!

[LeeCalif]

Sounds like informantboy was helping to foment violence.

[CATO90025]

Was the irony intended:

"It is very dangerous when a few individuals engage in or act on a belief system in which they feel they know the real truth and that all others are ignorant and therefore have no right to meet and express their political views".

Sound smore like the FBI and the Bush junta/Cabal.

[ObjectiveRealist]

The FBI has no stones or they would investigate Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, Raytheon, Bechtel, and Archer Daniels Midland for their corrupt influences on our government.

[Alphonzo007]

This why we need insiders in charge of the intelligence community?

[BarryChamplain]

I'm still trying to wrap my own brain around the mindset that says that in the middle of a crisis in which devastation runs rampant, death is everywhere, and a major international city is being destroyed.­.. the priority of the Bush administration would be infiltrating relief efforts to find anarchists (or whatever).

Really? Wow.

[duchessdorleans]

I heard several weeks ago that Brandon had turned out to be a federal agent. There definately was something off about that guy. He came off as a half-psychotic loose cannon, inciting his unwitting followers into opposing the National Guard who were, honestly, just trying to protect them. The Common Ground people always seemed a little sketchy to me. There was a dark vibe about them, a tone that seemed to be set by Brandon. It seemed to attract the truly radical anarchist types, which I guess was the whole idea. Whole damn story needs to be a novel, though. Maybe I'll run off and write it.

[beartrack]

It appears that this "agent" was in this operation for more personal political reasons than a legitimate approved investigation into any alleged criminal activity. Who in the FBI approved this ? Why was it approved ? Or, was it approved at all ?

[CAPTAINSKIPPY]

Okay, makes sense now, the Federal govt. dragged its feet on rebuilding New Orleans, so it could make work for the FBI to build traps to jail those who really got worked up over the administration's indifference. Thanks for explaining it all.

[Twinkie]

So many comments on this story by people who can't read

[emh]

golly, the government is finally doing something in new orleans. it would be nice if it had something, anything at all to do with rebuilding. this is disgusting beyond words.

[wdw505]

oh well then move

[ibsteve2u]

"It is very dangerous when a few individuals engage in or act on a belief system in which they feel they know the real truth and that all others are ignorant and therefore have no right to meet and express their political views."

See: Megalomania.

Unfortunately, those so afflicted tend to project their symptoms upon others.

[wdw505]

not bad

[tbone99]

some people will do anything for money, even frame innocent people. But thats the role of the FBI when the the Commander is Chief has ordered it.

Just watched a heartbreaking show in which our CIA agent in the Congo detailed how they took out Lumumba and installed Mugabe. No shame , just another day at the office.

But considering the heartbreak that was Katrina - was that really governments most pressing need ?