From: Committee Against Political Repression
The newest document released in the Pacific Northwest Grand Jury case reveals the federal government’s criminalization of anarchists. On January 30, a redacted affidavit was unsealed by order of Judge Richard Jones. The affidavit can be found Redacted Warrant.
Throughout the document Geoffrey Maron, an FBI Special Agent assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, repeatedly refers to individuals under investigation as being “known anarchists,” as if the ideology alone is evidence of a crime. Maron admits that “many anarchists are law-abiding,” but continuously points to the “Oregon Conspirators” as being known as part of the anarchist community. Similarly, Maron notes that some of the Portland police had seen many of those individuals at squats in Portland — as if that had any relevance to the investigation other than that it might corroborate that the targeted individuals are, in fact, anarchists.
Likewise, in justifying a preemptive investigation of the May Day protests, Maron points to an article appearing in the anarchist magazine Tides of Flame, quoting that writers there “urge everyone there to skip out on school and work to take to the streets.” This passage indicates that, not only was the FBI monitoring the anarchist press in advance of the May Day protest, but the quote suggests that it was precisely the possibility of a popular mobilization under the anarchist banner that prompted law enforcement attention. Elsewhere, Maron also indicates that Portland-based anarchists were personally under surveillance before the may Day protests, and were followed by FBI agents when they left the city.
Furthermore, according to Maron’s statement, law enforcement used information gleaned from electronic records to identify “associates and conspirators” of the anarchists under investigation. By referring to “associates” (in addition to “conspirators”), Maron as much as admits that the FBI is casting its net over the entire anarchist movement, not narrowly investigating specific illegal acts.
The text of this affidavit further strengthens the argument that the FBI is targeting anarchists for being anarchists, not for any alleged crimes.
At present, three people are in jail for refusing to collaborate with the FBI/grand jury witch hunt. The Committee Against Political Repression urges everyone to support Matt Duran, Kteeo Olejnik, and Maddy Pfeiffer, and to demand that U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan end the investigation immediately.

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We are all being monitored,
We are all being monitored, no matter our public or moral affiliations. There is no privacy from the U.S. Government or its agencies!
Some group did a small survey
Some group did a small survey on twitter the other day -- stats show that huge percentage of population is afraid of being monitored
1. https://twitter.com/TheAcaActivist/status/298597838357667840/photo/1
2. https://twitter.com/TheAcaActivist/status/298598881246212096/photo/1
3. https://twitter.com/TheAcaActivist/status/298600384925143040/photo/1
I understand what all this
I understand what all this fear about being monitored is about. And frankly, it's worth the effort to learn some techniques to mitigate it. But it's become a very real part of our day to day lives and it's futile to try to reverse that or attempt to overcome it. Surveillance at this point is as much a tool in the hands of insurrectionist as it is in their enemies. The secrete society is also technological to the extent that they use the means of surveillance, but it too becomes simply a matter of economic relations at a fundamental level. The question we should be asking is not are we being monitored but by whom, after having done x, y, and z. It is the secret society that can expose you and thus it is the same that can hide you, while it too is also the system itself, and the contradiction that seeks to overturn it. Learn dialectics and life begins to make some sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJoBtU_4Auk
ew you need to trigger
ew you need to trigger warning this, i'm traumatized by that snitch and it's fucked up for you to put my mental health at risk like that.
you're weak
you're weak
Leah-Lynn Plante worked for
Leah-Lynn Plante worked for the Red and Black Cafe in Portland, OR before she became a snitch.
Privacy is just another
Privacy is just another battlefield-Make them fear Little Brother!
Using your security tools to protect yourself, learn to use computers to track and monitor corporate executives and other enemies. They all have smartphones with GPS, most of them have Linkedin and/or Facebook profiles with far too much information on them. They run Microsoft Windows on their computers and often have email addresses with the same names as on their drivers licenses. They are as likely as anyone to use passwords that can be found in the dictionary. Found a high-end, yuppie-looking laptop that's encrypted on that subway seat? Make an image of the hard drive and run a dictionary attack, you have a good chance of decrypting it in about 5 minutes if the password is something that is in the dictionary. Then run data recovery for all the goodies they thought they deleted, like all those emails between CEO Shithead and Senator Moneybags. Learn to work your way back up the ratline if they are smart enough to use a cutout.
They all have cars, licenses, and license plates and few if any take any precautions to secure themselves against tag readers like the homemade one an activist might place on their corner to monitor their comings and goings. It's getting easier and easier to find them, ask anyone who ever dealt with HLS and come to regret it.
The kind of people who build Big Brother often know much about spying on us but very little about keeping us from spying on them. It's really funny when a CEO leaves his laptop running with an uncovered webcam lens while having a "private" conversation about, say, donating illegal campaign cash in return for passage of favored legislation!
Best of all, we don't have to make the mistakes they do. I doubt any activist who has monitored corporate emails, turned on an opponents webcam remotely, or used a 3 car team to track an opponent's car to that summer house that just wasn't in the motor vehicles database would be dumb enough to leave herself open to the same lines of attack in return. It's like the world of judo or pro-level espionage: every move has it's counter, training. skill and motivation are what count in the end.
Never forget: the chessboard is level and favors no player. Every time you see a protest at an executive's house, you are seeing the results of another sucess by Little Brother, often with nothing more than a simple use of Google and Linkin from behind the protection of Tor!
Sorry to troll but "FBI
Sorry to troll but "FBI Targeted Anarchists for Being Anarchists"....yeah, no shit!!
Soon being a "known anarchist
Soon being a "known anarchist" will be the same as being a "known gang member", complete with all the enhanced charges (for simple association) that comes with it.
Hopefully when that happens
Hopefully when that happens we will be as strong as the gangs. Those enhanced charges, combined with racist prosecutors, may ruin lives but they do NOT take down street gangs. For every person the pigs send to jail, there are ten more to take their place. When we are that strong, yes, they will shit bricks and that will be one of the bricks they shit.
The only thing that stops gang activity is when the conditions that created the gang are altered. Example: legalizing drugs would sink the drug cartels overnight. When crack got a well-deserved bad reputation, crack selling gangs fought each other for the leftovers before becoming much smaller and weaker.
Smarter gangs moved on to other rackets-much like liberal NGOs that find new causes (e.g. March of Dimes switching to birth defects after polio vaccination) or the IMF moving to European "national payday lending" after being nearly run out of Central America by Venezuala's oil money.
And? None of this comes as a
And? None of this comes as a surprise to those who have an understanding of how the State operates. Obviously they're going to be threatened by anarchists, and obviously they are going to use both legal and extra-legal means of disrupting and shutting down a perceived anarchist threat. Much of the rhetoric coming from PNW communiques has been incendiary in nature, declaring war against capitalists and the State. It's mostly an ideological threat, however accompanying a growing practice of property destruction, it becomes a real threat when it inspires similar actions elsewhere. And of course, the Portland PD are notoriously corrupt and obviously have no problem acting outside of the law. Anarchists are ill equipped to deal with this situation except through organizing solidarity for those targeted and continuing to carry out attacks that further the insurrectionary spirit at the heart of the State's fear. Often, these gross abuses of State power are partially checked by liberal leaning lawyers who are able to challenge the worst of them as illegal, however that no longer seems to be the case. The real challenge is figuring out how to confront this without failing back on liberal narratives of rights being violated blah blah blah, and also not escalating a confrontation with the State on it's terms. Guerrilla warfare is the only viable means of engagement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5wZGfd01MU
..."C.I."? "C.W."? Anyone....
..."C.I."? "C.W."? Anyone.....? Doesn't "CI" usually stand for CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT, and doesn't CW usually stand for COOPERATING WITNESS? Did anyone else notice that in the part describing the damage to the courthouse? Does anyone else think that that might be important?!?.............................
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