Cointelpro Type Operations Exposed

Hal Turner's attorney is saying that his client was trained by the FBI on how to be provocative.

{fair use excerpt}

Attorney: FBI trained NJ blogger to incite others
By KATIE NELSON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 18, 2009



HARTFORD,Conn. -- A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday.

Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an "agent provocateur" and was taught by the agency "what he could say that wouldn't be crossing the line," defense attorney Michael Orozco said.

"His job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest," Orozco said.

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I am not a conspiracy theorist. Check out any of my posts. They are written based on credible sources. When something's an opinion, that's how it's written. Facts are presented as facts. Michael Rivero worked for the largest military contrator at that time. Tinoire of Progressive Independent claims to have worked in military intelligence. The truth about Brett Kimberlin, Brad Friedman, and their hoaxes have been utterly shocking. People deserve to know about all of the various shenanigans going on with the internet. Those few names I've mentioned are tied to the hip. We now know that Markos Moulitsas Zuniga worked for the CIA while operating the Daily Kos. We know this because Kos has never retracted his admissions to the Commonwealth Club back in 2006. This thread will be devoted to examples of "real life" harrassment of peaceniks by government spooks.

Who is John Towery?

John Towery is a professional informant who works for the US Army. He works on Fort Lewis, WA in ‘force protection’. Between September 2007 and July 2009, using the alias “John Jacob agent_orange@riseup.net", he illegally infiltrated various anti-war and “anarchist” groups around the Olympia and Tacoma (WA) area including Port Militarization Resistance and Students for a Democratic Society. He also worked closely with the Smash ICE Campaign and Iraq Veterans Against the War. Much of his time was spent befriending anarchists or those whose views had anarchist characteristics. People who knew John Jacob described him as kind, generous, and friendly. He came to meetings and quickly became a trusted individual....

Jack's Smirking Revenge of FSZ is connected to Iraq Veterans Against the War. Hmmm. Perhaps there is a connection here. FSZ did the dirty work for Markos Moulitsas to contain and then damage David Weintraub's profound findings on Daily Kos' fascist modertating system. JSR has come up with many crazy ideas about sock puppets and other crap similar to the rubbish that came out of Tinoire and the other cybersmearers. He claimed I am the historic troll donkeytale. It's a long story but has been documented elsewhere. In short, FSZ is a false oppositional front to the Daily Kos. They in fact have been working in tandem with someone named Michael Fingerit. Their animosity was scripted. That I admit is opinion. Though I base it on my own extensive interactions with a multitude of data collected from open source forums.

Anyway, back to this new story. According to the domain linked to, they say Cryptome is censoring this story after at first covering it. I once wrote to the Cryptome dude with some stuff, and he never wrote back. I am having trouble trusting Cryptome, though I admit I never go there as a web surfer. I concur with the admin at JohnTowery.com that this is a strange story to not be getting any play at the Cryptome website.

.... But the story gets deeper. After the pictures and information about the informant disappeared from Cryptome, a few days later a news clipping and a link to the johntowery.com website appeared only to disappear yet again today.

So what does this tell us about Cryptome? Not much, but it might tell us something about the John Towery story that we already knew: it’s a huge fucking deal.

If you want to ask cryptome about this incident, you can contact them at cryptome{at}earthlink.net

The attacks on our civil liberties and rights to freedom of speech and association have been disgusting. This is not the America I grew up in. The turning of the USA into a police state is not a conspiracy theory. Also, this type of thing is not the exception. It is rampant. Quakers. Friggen on with this post.

Maryland State Police Spied on Peace, Anti-Death Penalty Groups

The American Civil Liberties Union released documents Thursday showing that undercover officers from the Maryland State Police spied on peace groups and anti-death penalty protesters for over a year in 2005 and 2006. The police summaries and intelligence logs reveal that covert agents infiltrated groups like the antiwar Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, the Baltimore Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and the Committee to Save Vernon Evans, a death row prisoner.....

Modern day cointelpro is all in our faces, whether on the internet or off it.

ACLU Report Shows Widespread Pentagon Surveillance of Peace Activists (1/17/2007)

NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report revealing that the Pentagon monitored at least 186 anti-military protests in the United States and collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in an anti-terrorist threat database.

“It cannot be an accident or coincidence that nearly 200 anti-war protests ended up in a Pentagon threat database,” said Ann Beeson, Associate Legal Director of the ACLU. “This unchecked surveillance is part of a broad pattern of the Bush administration using ‘national security’ as an excuse to run roughshod over the privacy and free speech rights of Americans.” ....

Why do I keep reading that Obama isn't doing much to change this war culture? He needs to grow up and start saving the planet. Russ Feingold is looking much better at this point. I even now wish Hillary had been elected instead. Those Clinton years are looking like paradise nowadays.

Newly Released Files Reveal FBI Spied on PA Peace Group Because of Antiwar Views {2006}

Newly released files show the FBI has been monitoring and possibly infiltrating a Pittsburgh peace group because of its opposition to the war in Iraq. We speak with the former head of the Thomas Merton Center, who was personally named in the FBI spy files as well as the New York Civil Liberties Union which has filed FOIA requests to determine whether the FBI is spying on the ACLU and other prominent political and religious groups in the city.....

ACLU Seeks Pentagon Files on Peace Groups (2/1/2006)

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of new evidence revealing Pentagon surveillance of peace groups and protest activities, the American Civil Liberties Union and its affiliates across the country today filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests seeking to uncover who is being spied on by the Pentagon and why.

“The Pentagon’s monitoring of anti-war protesters is yet another example of a government agency using its powers to spy on law-abiding Americans who criticize U.S. policies,” said ACLU staff attorney Ben Wizner. “How can we believe that the National Security Agency is intercepting only al Qaeda phone calls when we have evidence that the Pentagon is keeping tabs on Quakers in Fort Lauderdale?” ....

Australia sounds like another fascist country.

Somali Connection: A Terrorism Crackdown in Australia

Most Australians know very little about Somalia and even less about the al-Shabaab group that has been fighting for control of the war-torn African nation since 2006. But on Tuesday, Aug. 4, they quickly began to learn the pronunciation of the Somali terrorist group's name. Just before dawn, approximately 400 police from state and federal departments fanned out across Melbourne and its southwest, raiding 19 properties and arresting four men and questioning others. The police claim they had foiled a suicide plot by Al-Shabaab supporters to storm a Sydney military base and kill as many soldiers as possible....

The War on Terror is a manufactured pile of rubbish. Terrorism has been going on for decades. I think since there is no more Evil Empire to use to generate blood money, the military-industrial death machine has had to come up with some other way to keep the naive and apathetic at bay. This could be a good story to check in on at a later date to see if this new stink up has any merit or is just more of the same fear mongering and propaganda techniques we have been smothered with since the turn of the century. Militaries and their corporate sponsors are evil. War needs to be outlawed. We need a stronger UN to spread peace. Someone has to get the US, Australia and all the other oppressors to back down. I'm no wingnut crying about fictitious labour camps for dissenters. I'm saying to the whole military and their intelligence that they have lost their souls and are devoid of morals. They know it. We know it. It is what it is. It also needs to be slashed by 80%. The CIA, NSA, and most of military intelligence need to be disbanded. The FBI and other parts of government and police need to be monitored, and their criminal activity must come to an end. No one is above the law and constitution. How any guilty pigs can call themselves American or patriotic is hypocritical.

None of this is a brand new development for Australians. One can read more about their ascension to police state status at the following links.

{2 stories} Australia, its anti-terrorism legislation and the isolation of the Arab and Islamic community ... Spy force eyes radicals

The Australian editor Chris Mitchell defends terror story publication

Journalist Cameron Stewart, who was a spy with the Defence Signals Directorate before joining The Australian in 1987, said the AFP nominated the publication date for the article after he sought comment from them.

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Tinoire of Progressive Independent Proven a Cheating Liar

I was banned from Progressive Independent for calling out a poster who used the epitath of Jewboy. Tinoire said I lied. Then the folks at ProsemiteUndercover watched my back and proved Tinoire was the liar. When busted, her response was to delete the evidence.

But first things first, have you good lurkers seen this Tinoire quote?




One needs to go to this ProsemiteUndercover thread to see how things progressed. One poster there came across the phrase Jewboy after a quick search. It wasn't the one made by a poster named Virgil, who I had called out. That poster thought he was backing up my claim, but he was on some other tangent.

It was another poster who tracked down what I was referring to.




The problem is, that if one goes to the original link provided, this is the message onw will see.



I was banned from Jeff Wells' Rigorous Intuition before making one post. Tinoire used to be a prolific poster at the earlier version of his board. Et in Arcadia Ego, Wells' moderator and a former one from Chemtrail Central, used insider info from Swampgas of Gastronamus Cafe to get me banned. I hadn't even made one post. That's bizarre.

We now have good reason to believe that the neonazi disinfo network is closely affiliated with the Chemtrail forum fakes. They both were into the goofy script of cybersmearing me as being a multi-personality troll. When The_Last_Name_Left showed up at PI, Tinoire claimed we are the same person, the same thing that happened at Rivero's WRH "Unofficial" forum. Swampgas had said that I was Yaak/Cydoniaquest with 24 or something personalities. So whether it was the neonazis or the fake chemmies spreading the bull cheese, the cybersmear script was near identical. From this link:





This isn't the first time I have beaten down who appears to be a paid troll. We now know that Tinoire is affiliated with Brett Kimberlin's and Brad Friedman's Velvet Revolution. We now know that Tinoire's neonazi buddy Michael Rivero used to work for McDonnell Douglas, the largest military contractor at that time. Here now we can see that Tinoire lied about Virgil using the phrase Jewboy and subsequently banned me for no good reason. There is a cliche I have perhaps coined. I have won, and they have lost. As one can see with this example, the organised disinfo trolls first ignore, then they ridicule, then as a last resort they take out the scrub brush. It should now be fairly clear to all why I have been under attack for the last couple years. The disinfo buggers got busted, they went into ridicule mode, and finally they went into scrub and prune mode. That's what happened at Democratic Underground when I went after the election integrity fakes.

Michael Jackson: A Beautiful, Misunderstood Man

{cross-posted from All Aircraft Are Not Involved}



It broke my heart to hear that he had died today. I never for one moment ever believed he abused a child despite the allegations. Michael was a victim of child abuse. Many child stars have it tough. For every Ron Howard, there are many others who have had their childhoods robbed from them. I believe Michael's explanation of [i]Neverland[/i] was organic.

Jackson Interview Transcript
{excerpt}

{on why we he developed Neverland}

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater. I was always on tour, traveling. You know? And — I never got a chance to do those things. So, I compensated for the loss by — I have a good — I mean, I can't go into a park. I can't go to Disneyland, as myself. I can't go out and walk down the street. There's crowds, and bumper to bumper cars. And so, I create my world behind my gates. Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And — and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. They enjoy it in a pure, loving, fun way. It's people with the dirty mind that think like that. I don't think that way. That's not me.

The Jackson Five were abused by their father.

Variety
Michael Jackson dies at 50
by Pat Saperstein

{excerpt}

Jackson's own early influences included fellow Motown stars Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, while Diana Ross, with whom Jackson starred in "The Wiz," became a sort of spiritual mentor. James Brown's liquid footwork on the stage also exerted a pull on the singer.

Born in Gary, Ind., he had eight siblings: Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Randy and Janet. His father, Joseph, was a steel mill employee who performed in an R&B band, while his mother was a devout Jehovah's Witness.

Jackson and his siblings have described his father's abuse with whippings and forcing constant rehearsals, which affected Michael's stability the rest of his life.

In 1964 Michael and Marlon joined the Jackson Brothers, a band formed by Jackie, Tito and Jermaine. When he was 8, Michael and Jermaine became lead singers for the group, whose name was changed to the Jackson 5. The group signed with Motown Records in 1968. Despite his high, childish voice, he quickly emerged as the main draw.

Their first four singles, "I Want You Back," "ABC," "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There" hit No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100.

Starting in 1972, Jackson released four solo albums with Motown, including "Got to Be There" and "Ben," the soundtrack for the film about a boy and his rats.

Alice Miller is perhaps the greatest intellectual, when it comes to explaining child abuse. She respected Freud's profound insights on the effects of memory on consciousness. Unlike Freud, however, she didn't see the victim's sexuality as the cause of their difficulties in life. She speaks of the child within. What happens is, when we experience trauma at a young age, we end up reliving them through what she refers to as the repetitive, regressive compulsion. I encourage all readers to check out her books. She has her own website. There was also a body of work put together by Arthur Silber called Essays Based on the Work of Alice Miller. Hat tip to Abbeysbooks.

If one desires to understand why things never seem to get better, such philosophy is important to tap into. Child abuse comes in many forms. We are taught from the earliest of ages that the parents and adults are always correct. That leads to we the people being more likely to accept all types of authority figures running things, without our critical thinking skills included.

Abbeysbooks emailed me saying this would be a good story to blog on due to my admiration for Alice Miller. However, I am at a loss for words. All I can think of is that based on Miller's ideas, I do believe that Michael Jackson was an innocent man. I feel he got a raw deal in life. I believe he died at such a young age as a result of all the abuse he experienced. How would you like to be called a pedophile? How would you like it, if people made fun of you due to a rare skin disease?

Just because most of us would never consider sleeping in the same bed as a child of someone else's, because of the obvious threat of it being misunderstood, I believe Michael Jackson felt it was an okay thing to do precisely because he would never have harmed a child. He built [i]Neverland[/i] with the best of intentions, imho. Now he is dead, because the cruel world he was born into tortured his soul with false allegations.



From The Jim Nabors Show with clips compiled by penny2000:

I'll Be There





From The Sonny and Cher Show:

Ben




God bless Michael Jackson, and may he rest in peace.




A Victim of Child Abuse and the Cult of Personality

This guy's sexual innocence was stolen.


Slate
Arrested Development: The tragedy of Michael Jackson.
By Jacob Weisberg
June 14, 2005

{excerpt}

...Michael was made into a performing sexualized freak, a boy whose soprano voice kindled passion in grown women. He was made to witness adult sexuality at an age when it can only have been terrifying and incomprehensible to him. By 10, he was performing in strip clubs and hiding under the covers in hotel rooms while his older brothers got it on with groupies. At 11—the age at which his psyche seems frozen—he was a superstar. "My childhood was completely taken away from me," he has said.

Many disturbing posts can be found at MyLeftWing.

A poster named Antibi described him as "a dead baby-raper." Then later on he or she admitted there was no proof that Michael was even a child molester. An MLW admin named durratti agreed that Michael was a molester. His problem was that rape was not the correct word to use. Another admin named Curmudgette also backed the idea that Jackson had molested children by going off on some kind of tangent about molesting being as bad as rape. Then donkeytale {Joseph kkk} added to the list of people with big egos making comments with no proof.

Most boyz have had gay sex with other boys or men before they are 13.

Uhm, no, they haven't. Where's the proof? Where do any of these people find the nerve to even discuss child sexuality, as if they have the credentials to do so?

Child abuse occurs more often than most people realise. One needn't even be sexually abused to be a victim. Michael was mentally abused. We have all been victimised by this perverted world. When the parents and the State are always deemed correct, the child from within us is destroyed. We are taught to accept things as they are. We are brainwashed by the mass culture. Our sexuality is forced onto us without much freedom of will, innocent wonder years, nor organic development.

Donkeytale is wrong that no damage occurs when pre-teens are sexualised. It is not natural. He is projecting, plain and simple. He was abused as a youth, and he is trying to make it seem that is ok. He speaks of students having sex with the "hot teachers" as if they have won the jackpot. And Curmudgette is right in his corner also justifying the sexualisation of youth.

Take away the tv, movies, and print media, and children are not sexualised. Our brains tend to still be developing until the age of 21. This explains how even older teenagers can make some of the most mystifying mistakes. Children need to be protected and not drawn into the "real" world.

My own first experiences were at 12 were with a longtime neighborhood friend who was 15.

Then he went a step further and promoted the idea that an adult sexual predator shouldn't get into trouble for statutory rape/sexual relations with a minor. He even blames the victim.

In the case of my Okie friend, he was the pursuer of gratfication from an adult when he was a minor.

Your mind set leads inexorably to bad law and criminalizes victimless activity.

Minors can't consent to sexual relations. I've never been more disgusted by a poster than donkeytale. He seems to be debating from the viewpoint of NAMBLA. That's wrong.

That hot blond school teacher in Florida a few years back. She molested the 15 yr old boy? Wright....believe me if that was molestation, then I would desire plenty of that type of molestation. We both wished we could have been molested like that at 15, dont we?

Disgusting. The teacher stole the youth's childhood. Just because donkeytale wishes to justify the way he was abused as a minor as being natural and healthy, it does not make it so.

What is up with donkeytale's lack of grammar and spelling? Why no apostrophes? This thread is actually symbolic of what MyLeftWing has turned out to be, a repetitive echo chamber full of egos who love the sound of their own voices. KarmaFish and Imhotep even found a way to get in their circular Israel/Palestine debate. Maryscott O'Connor showed up to tell the world some more of her most personal secrets, of how she was sexually abused as a child. She just throws it out there. Why does she blurt stuff out like this?

I will give donkeytale credit for the following.

Maryscott: I wonder why I'm not an abuser.
Why I'm so violently repulsed by it, instead.

donkeytale: Maybe you work it out by being an online abuser.

Bingo.

I'll give Maryscott credit for sticking up for Michael's innocence. Then Curmudgette yet again showed her propensity to have her cake and eat it too. She should be a politician or astroturfer. Maybe she already works for both. She likes to play both sides of fences. When Francis Holland was being trolled on at MyLeftWing, she also piled on him with ad hominems and poorly constructed arguments implying he was a smearer. On the other hand, she said she didn't want him banned. Well, you can't have it both ways. You can't attack someone in ways which lead to a banning and then act innocent after the person was banned by saying you didn't want that to happen. In this current thread, she shows yet again an absurd amount of wiggle room. She says that Michael Jackson was found innocent, but that the signs indicate that he was guilty of the accusations. She puts out that Michael could have been victimised by grifters, yet still pushes he was guilty. Okay, based on Curmudgette's philosophy of debate, I am going to argue that either the Braves or the Red Sox are gonna win today's baseball game. In this way, I am correct no matter what.

The childlike behavior is very much indicative of childhood sexual abuse. I've known a number of abuse survivors to arrest, in that way, so that they speak like children into their adult lives. He absolutely was robbed of a childhood, as was LaToya, who also exhibits like a sexualized child.

I agree with you we can't know for certain, but it is absolutely true that a percentage of sex abuse survivors go on to abuse, because of repetition compulsion and a very damaged sexuality. Like Antibi, I think there were numerous tells with Michael Jackson. I would not go so far as to say I'm certain. But, the fact that he was never convicted in court is meaningless to me. Rapists and sex abusers go free every day. It's actually a very hard thing to prove, in court. No witnesses; terrified and emotionally damaged accusers.

The parents may have been angling for money. The parents may have been assholes. Here's something you may not know. Child molesters target children of irresponsible parents. They target the kids who are vulnerable and emotionally neglected; who aren't being properly protected by their parents and already have damaged self esteem. So the fact that the parents turned out to be exploitive jerks is not that surprising.

In short, nothing was accomplished by this MyLeftWing thread other than the need for a couple aspirin and a shower.


I was reading a fairly interesting article on Michael Jackson in today's Boston Globe. Yet, what I was left with was just another example of Curmudgette-like rules of reasoning. Where is the logic and consistency?

For blacks, Jackson’s struggles mirrored their own
By Wesley Morris

{excerpts}

Michael Jackson, pictured in 1979 (left),
underwent a series of plastic surgeries.


In 1993, Jackson told Oprah Winfrey - and, by extension, the entire planet - that he struggled with a skin condition called vitiligo that drained the pigment out of this skin. Regardless of whether this was actually the case, his face itself told the story of a torn soul....


....Look hard enough at Jackson, however, and you realize that it was aging, not blackness, that he hated.


...They - we - could see well past the bleached skin and unnatural Caucasian features. We could see his blues.

Why does the author discount Jackson's account of being afflicted with vitiligo? How is he able to go from having doubts about why Jackson's skin colour went white to pronouncing that it was due to bleaching? This guy needs to get his facts straight.

Chopra: Michael Jackson had lupus
UPI

Dr. Deepak Chopra says his longtime friend Michael Jackson suffered from lupus and vitiligo and had been known to use strong pain medication, People.com reported....

Chopra told People.com children who were physically or verbally abused can develop autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, later in life.

"Michael, he was never sexually abused but according to him, he was traumatized verbally and physically in his childhood, and it was a big issue with him," said Chopra, a spiritual teacher as well as medical doctor.

Lupus can cause skin discoloration, such as vitiligo, and Jackson had "huge white patches all over his body," Chopra said, adding Jackson had taken Oxycontin, Vicodin and Demerol at various times in his adult life.

Chopra's son, Gotham, also a friend of Jackson's, said the pop star was disturbed by reports that he bleached his skin to appear white.

"He identified as being a black person and so it was troubling to him that everyone thought that he was a hater of his own race," Gotham Chopra said. "And the lupus, why he didn't just come out more clearly and say that was the problem, I'm not sure. But I know it was something that bothered him a lot."

Francis Holland Exposes Markos Moulitsas Zuniga

Folks are encouraged to check out his blogs and stories. Mr. Holland is symbolic of what one person can accomplish on the internet when going up against behemoths. I have made some posts here and there at his Truth About Kos blog. Here's an exchange we've had from the last couple days.



socrates:

Dude, I'm a poor white guy. Colour doesn't mean anything. But then again it does. The internet is rigged. Would it be offensive to call those people you mention Uncle Toms? Again, colour means nothing to me, yet it means everything. We can't even just speak the truth without all the double talk. Great point how no way in hell should any "progressive" African-American be affiliated with the NetRoots.

It's not just Kos. The whole fricken net is rigged. People don't even have to be on intel payrolls to serve their purposes. In short, true progressives, intellectuals, and peaceniks are not wanted.

There is this poster at MyLeftWing called Phil. I. Stine. He used to have the username RecFox. He is a producer of Fox News and a close friend of Maryscott O'Connor. Now there is a producer for John Gibson, the show MSOC has gone on, who goes by the name of Angry Rich. That dude referred to Edwards as a whore. I see that Phil. I. Stine has done the same. Why is a Fox producer one of the top posters and close friends to a blog purporting to represent the Left-o-sphere?

Then there is your cyberstalker, KarmaFish, who admits to having gone to My[Right]Wing to counter your "smears and libel." That guy reeks of some kind of operative position. He is quick to make it seem that Jew hate is coming from the left. But all that has originated from the right. You see, good guy Mr. Holland, the blogosphere is a big, fat joke. It doesn't matter what your colour is, your sexual preference, whether you believe in God, etc.. What matters is if you pose a threat to the status quo. That is what is going on with the net.

Francis L. Holland:

I have to say that I agree with you that it's all about whether you pose a threat to the status quo, and most of the whitosphere is there to assure that whites don't become radicalized as they were in the sixties.

Also, there is a very determined effort to see that whites and Blacks don't coalesce around radicalized ideas and actions, simply by segregating the whitosphere from the afrosphere and limiting the discussion.

Socrates, if you're a "poor white guy" then why do you use a Rasta photo as your avatar. That confuses me.

I think the purpose of the big-box blogs must have been like the effect of Wal-Mart: to kill the mom and pop stores that were independent and then homogenize and control the product across the nation and even across continents.

socrates:

I rambled on a bit, so this will take a few posts. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Thanks for the response. Look, me and you have something in common. We both got into blogging. We tried our best.

It is only after people get unfairly banned, that they start to check the tire pressure, look under the hood, etc..

I picked Bob Marley, because I've always loved his words, music, and philosophy. I never meant to trick anyone. As soon as I realised you thought I was African-American, I let you know I wasn't. Not that it matters. Or it does. You know what I mean. If I used a Red Sox player, I'd take Big Papi over Kevin Youkillis or Papelbon. It's not the skin colour that matters to me. The first guy cares about people. The latter two appear to be rednecks. I guess I'm also someone who would be referred to as an "N" lover by racists.

I'm a lefty who studied Social Theory. Go google Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, Paulo Freire, Howard Zinn, Alice Miller, or Frantz Fanon.

I haven't always been poor. Well yes and no. I've never been rich. I've never had much money. I've never gone hungry. My "failing" is that I've always been highly idealistic. So now I am stuck in this toilet bowl of a country doing what I do best. Writing back. The pen is mightier than the sword.

I actually have always been fascinated by social structure. Lately I have come to accept that many of these people are useful idiots. Sure, I still believe there are paid fakes all over the place. Cointelpro is fact. Why wouldn't that type of thing be going on with the internet in some modern incarnation?

But is Maryscott O'Connor an agent? Maybe a political operative, but no spy type. Is she the worst thing to ever happen to the left on the net? Yes. She and Kos and all the Kos offshoots along with other fake progressives have been the worst thing to happen with the internet.

Kos could definitely be a CIA asset. I think he is. We have every right to believe so. When I wrote my spiels at DKos, MyLeftWing, and Democratic Underground, all I got were ad hominem attacks. Anyone who uncovers anything through cybersleuthing is attacked. It's happened to you, me, DaveFromQueens, and others.

A professor once told me that one can go to the Dominican Republic and find people speaking with traces of Irish accents. That's because the British used to send Irish slaves there.

You were right about Hillary being better than Obama, by the way.

Okay, I think you nailed it with your Walmart analogy. Yes, we are the Mom and Pop stores. I started at Huffington in 2005 {different username}, before it was big. You were at DKos. There were all these other big places.

As the months turned into years, and the outspoken were banished from the big places, the deletions and hidden comments grew. The middle took over the left. The left were told to take a hike.

All the disinfo and useful idiots have left is to refer to us as conspiracy theorists. It doesn't matter what we bring to the table for truth. There will be scripts written to paint any individual a certain way. I do not for one second believe that KarmaFish posts for free. But point these kinds of things out, and all of a sudden someone like me is painted as calling everyone cointelpro. That's not what I do. I despise the tinfoil as much as anyone.

{contd.}


People are being shamed. No one will speak out on the big blogs. Hey, even if they don't feel shame, they will be ignored and banned anyway... Or goaded into any kind of angry response to justify a banning. The fake progressives can break any rule. The gadflies must walk on eggshells to survive.

I am a peacenik vegetarian. I believe the quickest solution to our problems would be to cut the military-industrial complex by 80%. Such an obvious solution never gets discussed, because a sophisticated right woos left script has been generated to shut out the true left.

Peace and equality is where it's always been at. Unfortunately, such ideals have become commodified. The tv is obviously worthless. The internet has been some kind of venting mechanism. But when people like ourselves vented too well, the decision was made to shut us up.

They know they can't shut us up totally, because we can be very clever fockers. So they smear us. Then ironically, they label us as the smearers and stalkers.

We are just nice dudes who wanted to be heard in what is astroturfed as being a democracy. Then when we found out the thing has been rigged, we documented it. You are not the only person who has been cybersmeared. The same thing happened to me. I guess the biggest thing we have in common has been our outing of fake progressives.

There's nothing more discouraging to the useful idiots than to have the truth spelled out for them. They would rather continue with their cognitive dissonance than to consider the accumulated facts, or the ideas that spring from free and critical thinkers.

Maybe a new major forum could be started. We'd need some money to get it done. Operatives are all over the internet perverting democratic processes. Whether they are political operatives or from the various intelligence branches of the military, or if they are simply right wing trolls, who knows? It would take work to simply explain to folks how rigged the net is.

That can be done. Right now I can only say let the reader decide. The bad guys are portraying us as trolls and mentally unbalanced or on payrolls. They know we are marginalised on blogspots. But we do have the written word. We are smarter than them. Most importantly, we have the truth.

Yeah, funny how Kos can't explain the time discepancy with the CIA, about the 2001-2003 timeline. It's bad enough that he is an admirer of that organisation. When I did the LetTheSunShine thing, the responses were all making fun of me as tinfoil. Just ad hominems.

I've always been antiwar and liberal. Massachusetts is the only state which voted for McGovern over Nixon. We are the state where the first African-American Regiment formed to fight in the Civil War. Sure, the busing was a bad time. That's actually a pretty good issue to get into. My thinking is, why aren't the schools equal to begin with? Why should anyone have to leave their neighbourhood to get a better education? On the other hand, I would be pro-busing as a patchwork solution. Ugh. There's something in this world called complexity. There are no high powered conversations going on anywhere on the "progressive" blogs.

I wouldn't mind being an internet activist. That's actually what's needed. We need a million groovy people like ourselves to find each other, along with a good platform to exchange information and ideas. We should figure out how to break up the blogospheric status quo.

Francis L. Holland:

Socrates, I don't think we need one good platform but rather thousands of good platforms, interlinked but independent, so that no one person or small group of people have the power to shut it down.

Effectively, that's what the afrosphere is. Although dozens or even hundreds of government agents can try to buy it, corrupt it or coopt it, yet no one can compel any individual to say anything s/he doesn't want to say, or refrain from saying it, except by torture.

One of the things that destroyed the Black Panther Party is that it became so thoroughly infiltrated with Governnment spies and agent provocateurs that no member could fully trust any other member anymore.

Another thing that destroyed the BPP was that it was entirely overt, and so when the authorities wanted to shut it down, they knew where all of the pressure points were.

I think the anonymity of the whitosphere has a different purpose. It allows people who would be incredible if identified to seem credible when they are anonymous.

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I read the comments to your letthesunshine diary and it was obvious that anyone with a brain knew better than to support you because opposing MAMZ is against the rules, and everyone who was opposing you was doing so without ever challenging the substance of what you had said.

They basically all point at you and laugh simultaneously in the hopes that people who don't know will think you're incredible or incredibly dangerous.

Any blog built around maintaining the credibility of a two-year CIA agent trainee in the American Left is a blog that might as well be run directly out of CIA headquarters. Maybe it is.

socrates:

There's a Stephen King movie called The Dead Zone. Spoiler Warning. The lead character is a psychic played by Christopher Walken. He knows that a politician is destined to become a Hitler type President. He decides to take the man out. But at the last moment, the politician grabs a baby and shields himself from the would be assassin.

The beauty of this was that the man's political aspirations were ruined, and the psychic didn't have to commit the crime.

We are peaceniks. We are what used to be the norm. The role of the operatives is to maintain the status quo. They definitely own the Walmarts. Hence, I agree with you on the need for tons of smaller sites in which we find ways to have our messages and stories heard. We do so through something I refer to as the reverse-troll. Basically, we get the Kos-type sycophants to hold up the babies in self-defense.

Daily Kos does something called card stacking. By hiding comments and banning anyone who disagrees, the authoritarian types attempt to astroturf themselves as being the grown ups and the free thinkers as disruptive trolls.

As soon as they went to zero tolerance for dissent within the blog, they were doomed to collapse under the weight of their our hypocrisy. Fool me once, twice, that kind of strategy can only go so far. By ganging up on yourself, the thing backfired. The bullying became transparent. No progressive would ever support the CIA.

Kos was busted for those payola type schemes. He then did the internet version of jumping the shark by supporting the CIA. I don't think he ever imagined that his interview with the Commonwealth Club would take on a life of its own.

Instead of stripping the old paint, new coats of lies were packed on the rotted wood. Operatives like KarmaFish were sent to attack you, to in fact cyberstalk, in outrageous attempts to portray yourself as an out of control conspiracy theorist. MSOC just didn't have the mental balance and inner fortitude to do the right thing.

A bunch of times during my brief stay at MLW, I'd ask the "normal" people to explain how applying to the CIA in 2001 for a six month interview was resolved in 2003. If Kos was that clever, he would have said he applied in 2001 and didn't hear back from them until approximately six months before joining the Dean campaign. Actually, I don't think there was any way for him to fix what he blurted out. By phrasing it as he did in reference to the Dean campaign, he admitted that he was in close contact with the CIA, while running a "progressive" blog. It makes one wonder about people like Larry Johnson and many others like Larisa Alexandrovna who have had a very warped influence on the zeitgeist.

Kos basically had no way to fudge his way out of what he himself declared, once the genie was out of the bottle. He has gone with the same strategy he did when the Armstrong payola scandal emerged. Remember the memo he sent out to the Townhouse blogosphere asking them to starve the oxygen out of that story? Since you were so persistent and resourceful, KarmaFish and others were given their assignments to troll you. I've experienced the same kind of thing since also outing various right woos left, disinfo fakes. One needn't even prove that Kos is in the CIA, for the indisputable truth remains that he called them a liberal institution while downplaying their culpability in historic crimes against humanity.

When guys like us mess up, we admit it. We consider mea culpas and retractions. The attacks on you have always consisted on trivial points or ad hominems. So perhaps no one called you the "N" word at Daily Kos. I don't know. But I certainly read where someone called you a monkey. How does an operative like KarmaFish think he is proving his cybersmears, when anyone can see that you were verbally abused in a racist manner at Daily Kos?