Posted on 10/05/2009 7:31:35 AM PDT by ETL
On Thursday, F.B.I. agents descended on a house in Jackson Heights, Queens [New York City], and spent 16 hours searching it. The most likely reason for the raid: a man who lived there had helped coordinate communications among protesters at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.
The man, Elliot Madison, 41, a social worker who has described himself as an anarchist, had been arrested in Pittsburgh on Sept. 24 and charged with hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility and possession of instruments of crime. The Pennsylvania State Police said he was found in a hotel room with computers and police scanners while using the social-networking site Twitter to spread information about police movements. He has denied wrongdoing.
American protesters first made widespread use of mass text messages in New York, during the 2004 Republican National Convention, when hundreds of people used a system called TXTmob to share information. Messages, sent as events unfolded, allowed demonstrators and others to react quickly to word of arrests, police mobilizations and roving rallies. Mass texting has since become a valued tool among protesters, particularly at large-scale demonstrations.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
FYI: the mass protest at the RNC Convention was organized by the so-called "anti-war" group "United for Peace and Justice" (UFPJ). They are basically a front for Communist Party USA. Their national coordinator, Leslie Cagan, is a longtime supporter of communist causes and a devoted admirer of Fidel Castro. She also helped found the org, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. The CCDS is a direct offshoot of Communist Party USA. United for Peace and Justice's co-chair (Judith LeBlanc), is also the VP for Communist Party USA.
Also see:
"US Communist Judith LeBlanc Tells Aussies About Obama's Foreign Policy-After All, She Should Know"
-by Trevor Loudon
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/07/us-communist-judith-leblanc-tells.html
And: FrontPageMag's/DiscoverTheNetworks.org profile of Leslie Cagan
(it needs to be updated a bit, as Cagan is now the "National Coordinator" for United for Peace and Justice -etl)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=629
Too late for Tea party tweeting?
We should use their same methods of organizing for our movement.
They might as well just charged him with jaywalking, none of these charges will stick. The ACLU and the EFF will provide him a valid First Admendment defense. I would say they did this just so they could do a raid and grab all of the computers for intel. He will not see those computers for a while and I would not be surprised to see him arrested on Child Porn charges later on. That seems to be a good way to get rid of people now.
That seems to be the tactical strategy adopted here in Pittsburgh. Get these guys arrested under any charge, no matter how tenuous or difficult to defend, in order to prevent any mayhem during the G20. If you can hold them for a few days until it’s over then you deal with the consequences later on. In the short term it appears to have worked, as total damages were estimated at only $50,000. But those of us who are local taxpayers are going to paying for this strategy as the ACLU appeals on behalf of protesters drag on for years...and years.....and....years.....
So Madison is a “social worker”?
Employed by whom? And to what purpose?
Political speech was precisely the speech the Founders had in mind with the First Amendment.
The First Amendment ain't about porn.
Free speech to organize a riot?
Any public gathering could become a riot.
It is the precise intention of the anti-capitalist anarchists to riot. They actually send out instructions how to carry out acts of destruction and avoid the police.
ANARCHISTS HOT FOR MAYHEM
Police on guard vs. violent tactics
Thursday, August 26th 2004
FIFTY OF THE COUNTRY'S leading anarchists are expected to be in the city for the Republican National Convention, and a handful of them are hard-core extremists with histories of violent and disruptive tactics, according to police intelligence sources.
Police said each of the 50 have up to 50 followers who are willing to be arrested during disturbances at the convention. This group, police say, is expected to engage for the most part in civil disobedience, including sit-ins in front of delegates' buses. They also may stage more direct-action tactics, such as vandalizing McDonald's and Starbucks.
But a handful of activists with violent pasts have police concerned they will recruit others into dangerous confrontations.
"The older radicals are interacting with the newer anarchists and it's a bad mix," said one police source.
For example, NYPD intelligence reports say Kazi Toure, a Black Panther from Boston also known as Christopher King, convicted in the 1980s of conspiracy to overthrow the government, and with arrests for bank robbery and transporting firearms, was observed training younger militants in weapons use.
And a 20-year-old New Yorker who allegedly leads "The Organization" is advocating shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge, and hurling bricks followed by Molotov cocktails through the windows of military recruiting stations, according to these reports. The man has four minor arrests for nonviolent offenses and the Daily News is withholding his name.
Richard Picariello, 55, a '70s radical in the Boston area, a one-time member of the Fred Hampton Unit of the People's Army, named for a slain radical, also is known to be active in current causes.
"He has been talking to groups . . . recruiting others into extreme measures," said a high-ranking police source.
In 1978, Picariello was sent to prison for helping to blow up a plane at Logan Airport, two National Guard trucks and a courthouse in Boston.
Since his release from federal prison, he has been involved in various groups, and has arrests for minor offenses such as refusing to move out of the way of President Bush's motorcade in Boston last March.
Picariello is allied with ANSWER (Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism). Efforts to reach him through ANSWER's New York office and through his Boston lawyer were not successful.
Jaggi Singh, 32, a Canadian citizen, is known for allegedly setting off hoax devices to detour police resources. He allegedly catapulted teddy bears soaked with gasoline at police at the Quebec G-20 protest in 2001, according to NYPD reports.
A member of the International Solidarity Movement, or ISM, he was seen shooting a handgun, and allegedly received firearms training from Toure, according to a police source.
"The vast majority of the 250,000 protesters will be peaceful, but we are concerned about a relatively small number of individuals coming to the city to engage in vandalism and violent activity," said Paul Browne, NYPD spokesman.
Besides The Organization and ISM, police have identified three other groups with a history of violence, whose members are willing to be arrested for serious crimes.
They are: Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, Anarchist Black Cross and No Police State.
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POTENTIALLY VIOLENT GROUPS IDENTIFIED BY THE NYPD
SHAC - Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty:
In May, federal prosecutors in Newark arrested seven members from the animal rights group, charging they used a campaign of intimidation and harassment against a company that tests pharmaceuticals on animals.
Authorities said SHAC used vandalism, stalking, computer hacking and blitzes of E-mail, telephone calls and faxes to menace Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British company with labs in New Jersey.
U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie called the group's members "violent fanatics."
The feds also charged SHAC had targeted Huntingdon employees and shareholders. SHAC members allegedly went to homes of Huntingdon workers where they slashed tires and spray-painted slogans.
In 2003, FBI domestic terrorism agents seized computers and other materials from the group's offices in Franklin Township, N.J., and a Seattle home. The British-based group has worldwide chapters.
International Solidarity Movement (ISM):
Describes itself as a Palestinian-led movement of activists working to raise awareness of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and to end Israeli occupation. Claims to use "nonviolent" methods of resistance to confront and challenge Israeli occupation forces and policies.
The group deploys foreign volunteers as buffers, placing them between Israeli troops and Palestinian civilians during military operations.
In 2003, its members acknowledged meeting with two Britons before the pair carried out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, but denied any knowledge of the plan.
Also last year, a member of the group died while trying to stop an Israeli Army bulldozer.
Anarchist Black Cross:
Follows the teachings of former Black Panther and "anarchist revolutionary" Lorenzo Komboa Ervin. The goal of the underground network is to fight against prisons and help inmates struggle against the penal and judicial system.
"The prison system is the armed fist of the state, and is a system for state slavery. It is not really for 'criminals' or other 'social deviants,' and it does not exist for the 'protection of society,'" the group's Web site says.
The Organization:
A small, loosely-knit group of anarchists and violent radicals.
No Police State:
Fringe group of anarchists, suspected of planning to spark violence.
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/08/26/2004-08-26_anarchists_hot_for_mayhem_po.html
Ruckus at the Republican Convention [2004]
By Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine.com
August 27, 2004
Leftist Web sites have worried the police in New York City whose job is to prevent radicals and terrorists from disrupting and endangering the 2004 Republican National Convention. These anti-President George W. Bush Internet sites have encouraged protestors to bring slingshots to attack police horses, and marbles that can be thrown beneath those horses’ hooves to make them slip and injure themselves and their police officer riders.
These sites have provided “anarchist cookbook” recipes that tell protestors how to set off sensors used to detect terrorist explosives and chemical weapons. Such detectors sounding an alarm could cause panic, mass evacuations, a disrupted convention and the loss of scarce national television prime time for the Republican message. ..."
At the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia, Ruckus-trained leftists planned to bring the city to a halt with rioting. Well-prepared police stopped them, and in the process seized improvised weapons, gasoline-soaked rags, and piano wire that the protestors intended to string across streets to trip police horses. In the melee 23 police cars were damaged and 15 officers were injured.
Time for the RIGHT Side to get organized for some good tea parties.
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TXTmob is a service, similar to electronic mailing lists, that lets you share mobile phone SMS text messages with both friends and total strangers. You can sign up to send and receive messages to and from various groups, which are organized around a range of different topics.
You're welcome. Best way to fight them is to get it all out in the open.
Bunch of young and misguided know-nothings led astray by hardcore commie elders.
Roger that.
...protesters first made widespread use of mass text messages in New York, during the 2004 Republican National Convention, when hundreds of people used a system called TXTmob to share information. Messages, sent as events unfolded, allowed demonstrators and others to react quickly to word of arrests, police mobilizations and roving rallies. Mass texting has since become a valued tool among protesters, particularly at large-scale demonstrations.Apropos of nothing, I love that scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" where Indiana Jones is confronted by some joker brandishing a sword, and Indy pulls out a pistol and just shoots the guy.
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