Crimethinc: “Life in “Mueller Time” The Politics of Waiting and the Spectacle of Investigation
For almost two years now, faithful Democrats have waited for special counsel Robert Mueller to file his report about collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian attempts to interfere in the US election, not to mention Trump’s involvement in obstruction of justice. Whenever Trump’s activity provokes them or a subterranean rumbling within the Justice […]
Crimethinc: Take Your Pick: Law or Freedom
We saw you last night among thousands of other anti-Trump demonstrators around the US. Their signs proclaimed, “No one is above the law.” You were the one with the sign reading “I love laws.” We need to talk. Really, this is what gets you into the streets? Trump’s goons have been kidnapping your neighbors, preparing […]
Smithsonian Magazine, “Has the FBI Ever Been Divorced From Politics?”
After the war, the growing “Red Scare” led to more political bungling. Anarchist bombing attacks in 1919 and 1920 produced the “Palmer Raids,” ordered by General A. Mitchell Palmer and overseen by Hoover. “[P]olitics, inexperience, and overreaction got the better of Attorney General Palmer and his department,” writes The FBI: A Centennial History, 1908-2008 on the […]
Eugene Weekly, “Whiteaker Hit With Racist and Nazi Graffiti”
On Feb. 5 the website It’s Going Down, which calls itself a “media platform for revolutionary anarchist, anti-fascist and autonomous anti-capitalist movements” published an anonymous screed denouncing the swastika graffiti and other incidents, and alleging the tags and fliers are a form of recruitment by fascists. Continue Reading
The New Yorker, “What Happens to the Deported”
After an anarchist placed a bomb at the front door of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s home, in Washington, D.C., the hysteria escalated and Palmer ordered the surveillance of supposed radical communities with ties to anarchist groups and the Communist Party, many of which were Russian immigrant organizations and associations. Continue Reading
Vice, “How an FBI Informant Sent a Radical Environmentalist to Prison, and How He Got Out Again,” February 27, 2015
How an FBI Informant Sent a Radical Environmentalist to Prison, and How He Got Out Again by CJ Ciaramella, Vice, February 27, 2015 McDavid first met Anna in 2004 at an invitation-only anarchist gathering in Des Moines, Iowa. It was a heady time for both radical leftists and federal law enforcement, which had been given […]
Cincinnati.com, “Terror suspect’s road from suburbs to ‘violent jihad,'” January 15, 2015
Terror suspect’s road from suburbs to ‘violent jihad’ by Dan Horn, Kimball Perry and Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, January 15, 2015 He said his son spent the past few years trying to find himself, experimenting with politics, religion and life-style changes. He tried becoming a vegetarian, embraced conspiracies about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and later called […]
Associated Press, “Convicted ‘eco-terrorist’ freed amid evidence dispute,” January 9, 2015
Convicted ‘eco-terrorist’ freed amid evidence dispute by SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press, January 9, 2015 A Northern California man described by federal officials as an anarchist and eco-terrorist intent on blowing up government and commercial buildings was set free after nine years in prison when the government conceded that evidence in the case was never turned over […]
WHNT, “FBI tracking “staggering” number of threats against police,” December 31, 2014
FBI tracking “staggering” number of threats against police Al Whitaker, WHNT, December 31, 2014 “It’s a tough enough job but I really see the next few years being extremely tough as a result of the fact that, you know, you’ve got some people that want to, and in my opinion they’re just basically anarchists, that […]