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annm4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 01:30 PM
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How many groups of Keystone cops acting as Anarchists were there at 2008 RNC ?
Edited on Sun May-23-10 01:34 PM by annm4peace
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_15143477

(so at the RNC 8's pretrial hearings last two weeks, I heard how the 2 Ramsey County Sheriff's dept undercover deputies didn't know about the 2 FBI infiltrators.. and the only ones who were reported to make violent comments regarding cops (pigs, fuck the cops, etc) were the people working undercover and not any of the "anarchists. There was also one pathetic story how the RNC 8 were charged with inciting violence by a "banner drop", but it turns out the only ones participating in that were 3 undercover who didn't know they were all undercover.

So now we found out a that the near by city of Bloomington also had a group of Cops posting as "anarchists".. and they were also spouting words of violence and destruction while at the anarchist and protest meetings.

Good Grief, why didn't they just arrest each other and stop wasting all our tax dollars. )

St. Paul / Defense blames fake RNC activists for destruction at 2008 RNC

The Bloomington police department created a "pseudo-activist group" to spy on would-be protesters of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, according to a court document filed by protesters' defense attorneys.

"Our intel unit made up a (protest) group, gave it an appropriately provocative name and got to work," one of the Bloomington police officers wrote in "CopBook," a 2009 memoir.

"We ... wrote our anti-capitalist manifesto which was then published on the (protesters') website and other local and national radical websites," wrote Richard Greelis, a now-retired 27-year Bloomington police veteran.

Lawyers for Garrett Fitzgerald wrote in a recent motion in Ramsey County District Court that the fake group was Indy-TACT, and that its purpose "was to spy on Mr. Fitzgerald and his co-defendants, to disrupt their lawful activities and to incite others to commit illegal activities."

Fitzgerald and seven other activists, known collectively as the RNC8, have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to commit riot and to commit property damage during the 2008 convention. Their trial is scheduled for Oct. 25.

The eight were among those involved in the RNC Welcoming Committee, a group that helped plan protest activities and encouraged protesters from across the country to come to St. Paul for the convention.

The eight defendants contend that infiltrators, including undercover informants hired by the Ramsey County sheriff's office and the FBI, sought to encourage violence during the convention.

To them, Indy-TACT was more of the same.

"We're being accused of doing and saying everything that was done and said at the RNC," when law enforcement itself was the source of some of the most inflammatory words through their undercover work, Fitzgerald, 27, said last week.

read more on the link:
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_15143477

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find out more of the 8 people charged with conspiracy to Riot.
when on the site look to the left side for updates: http://rnc8.org/
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 01:33 PM
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1. And Meanwhile, Ma'am, Radical Right 'Sovereign Citizens' Shoot Police Dead
Police work is such a grand thing sometimes....
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 03:44 PM
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2. at least 25% of the total of the anarchists were informants?
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 03:59 PM
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3. We told you this would happen.
Right-wing reactionary violence. Someone needs to put a stop to this shit.
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