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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Wed Sep 5, 2012, 11:08 PM Sep 2012

Judge furious about undercover Occupy operation

(This is from a fox news affiliate....!!!)

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/19466909/2012/09/05/judge-furious-about-undercover-police-in-occupy-protests

Dowell was one of three undercover APD officers within Occupy Austin, the same group that ended up in the Port of Houston.

Gladden said the officers designed and built those "dragon sleeves" that got the protesters in so much trouble.

"Dowell was bragging to the wrong people about setting these kids and they tipped us off," Gladden said.

(More at the link.)

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Via Occupy Austin and black swan on Twitter.


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Judge furious about undercover Occupy operation (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Sep 2012 OP
Rule from the 60's: Don't trust new guy wanting a confrontation, particularly ... unc70 Sep 2012 #1
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unc70

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1. Rule from the 60's: Don't trust new guy wanting a confrontation, particularly ...
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 05:37 AM
Sep 2012

Rule from the 60's: Don't trust the new guy urging others into a confrontation, particularly if they were more interested in that than the beautiful women who was trying to flirt with them. During the civil rights demonstration and more so with the protests against the Vietnam war, you often had active duty military trying to pass as college students or as Vietnam vets.

We know how quickly we spot most trolls, et al here. It similar back then. Even by claiming to be a student at a school 500-1000 miles away and are visiting some friends here, you would not pass inspection for long, particularly if you haven't attended college anywhere. But passing as a college student was far easier than passing as a Vietnam vet. Far too many details, unit numbers, forms, equipment, slang, people, pranks, and on and on.

Sometimes they were so obvious. Several forgot to remove the base tags (decal) from their car.

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