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The Snitch In The Silver Hearse; The FBI Paid A Violent Felon To Infiltrate Denver's Racial Justice Movement
The Intercept ^ | 2/07/2023 | Trevor Aaronson

Posted on 02/09/2023 6:47:57 PM PST by Nextrush

As racial justice protests broke out nationwide in the summer of 2020, a man driving a silver hearse became a regular at the demonstrations in Denver.

He was a paunchy 5-foot-7 with a ruddy complexion and wore military fatigues with patches on the sleeves. By activist standards, he was an old timer: pushing 50 as he sawggered through crowds of teens and 20-something protesters, a cigar clamped in his lips.

"I didn't know much about him, but he drove a hearse," said Zebbodios "Zebb" Hall, a Black activist in Denver. "Inside this hearse was a lot of guns: AR-15s and all other kinds of *hit".

The driver of the hearse filled with guns was Michael Adam Windecker II. He went by the nickname Mickey and boasted of having been a soldier for the French Foreign Legion and the Peshmerga, the Kurdish fighting force known most recently for battling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. He claimed to have traveled to those battlefields and trained antifascist activists there in weapons, hand-to-hand combat, and explosives...

Bryce Shelby, another Black activist, remembered seeing Windecker walking around the protests. He had a GoPro camera strapped to his chest, which Shelby initially thought was suspicious. "He de-escalated any type of suspicion because he would start flashing his prison badge," Shelby said. "So yeah. You know what I mean? OK, he's not a fed."

But Shelby and many other activists in Denver were wrong about the man behind the wheel of the silver hearse. Windecker was a fed. The FBI paid him tens of thousands of dollars in cash to infiltrate and spy on racial justice groups during the summer of 2020.

For the last year I've been investigating Windecker and his work for the FBI...

(Excerpt) Read more at the intercept.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: antifa; blacklivesmatter; blmdenver; bryceshelby; denver; fbi; january6th; michaeladamwindecker; trevoraaronson; zebbhall; zebbodioshall
Well, the FBI spies on everyone including the BLM-Antifa folks.

We know the feds did the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and so on but yes they had their claws into the Left as well.

Important to consider in the context of J6 when apparent Leftists in black uniforms appeared in the fighting outside the Capitol.

1 posted on 02/09/2023 6:47:57 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

If there are 5 people in a group odds are one is an FBI informant.

If there are 20 there’ll be one actual agent and a couple of informants.

If there are 100 it is being run by the FBI.


2 posted on 02/09/2023 6:52:23 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Nextrush

Link does not work

Did you just change the name of your blog?


3 posted on 02/09/2023 6:52:51 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: Fai Mao

Oops the good link:

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi-denver-racial-justice-protests-informant/


4 posted on 02/09/2023 7:00:28 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush
Was he handing out guns, Molotov cocktails, and bricks too?
5 posted on 02/09/2023 7:08:26 PM PST by Dogbert41
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To: Nextrush

So, basically, violent felons shouldn’t have guns, unless they’re FBI informants, because we know the FBI is looking out for our bests interests.

Sure would be nice to criminally charge those FBI agents who either supplied him with guns or knew about them with all appropriate charges, e.g. straw purchases, knowingly providing guns to convicted felons, and/or misprision of a felony.


6 posted on 02/09/2023 7:17:51 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Nextrush
"when the FBI aggressively pursued racial justice and left-wing activists based on nothing more than First Amendment-protected activities."

Stopped reading, right there.

7 posted on 02/09/2023 7:22:28 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Eagles6

See the big picture the FBI sending people into the Left to encourage more violence exactly what they did with MAGA Americans on January 6th and before that in the Oregon Standoff protest of 2016.


8 posted on 02/09/2023 7:24:41 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Dogbert41

He carried AR-15s in his vehicle a hearse of all things and he encouraged violence against police in his conversations with the Leftists.


9 posted on 02/09/2023 7:25:37 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

It’s like the FBI is the KGB in every way.


10 posted on 02/09/2023 7:34:15 PM PST by Dogbert41
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To: Nextrush

I no longer believe the Intercept.


11 posted on 02/09/2023 7:52:49 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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I know the history of the FBI they have always been spying on everyone and anyone.

The Klan, the Nazis, the Communists, the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King.

This fits their MO and DNA profile.


12 posted on 02/09/2023 7:55:22 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Common knowledge in NE Mississippi at every Klan meeting half were FBI agents. The FBI even had members infiltrating Civil War Southern reenactment groups.


13 posted on 02/09/2023 8:15:25 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Nextrush

So you go to a meeting of the CP of the US and most of the members are KGB agents spying on FBI agents thinking they were spying on American communists. Did Bernie ever attend?


14 posted on 02/09/2023 9:04:14 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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I no longer believe the Intercept

That's cool.

I no longer believe anything my GOVERNMENT says......been that way for a looooooong time.

15 posted on 02/10/2023 6:47:57 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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I no longer believe anything my GOVERNMENT says......been that way for a looooooong time.

You are very wise.

16 posted on 02/10/2023 6:49:00 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

On rare occasions, clarity wends its way though the windmills of my mind.


17 posted on 02/10/2023 11:41:35 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: Roccus
I no longer believe anything my GOVERNMENT says......been that way for a looooooong time.

I haven't believed a word from the Gubmint or the "news media" for 35+ years. You?

18 posted on 02/10/2023 11:44:17 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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You made me pause and give thought to exactly when.
I’d have to say it started during the U2 incident. One after another the govt. lies were bared. In the ensuing years the 1960 election, the Bay of Pigs, the Warren Commission and finally the Johnson administration itself solidified my distrust of whatever my govt. tells me. It took me well into my 40s before I realized just how much my govt. loathed the individual taxpaying citizen. Now as I approach 80, I realize that politicians, bureaucrats, and flag officers in the military are for the most part petty, vain, greedy, vicious, connivers.
Whether they’ve always been this way and I’ve gradually become more aware or if there is some new level of evil and malevolence that infests their ranks makes no difference to me. They are what they are!


19 posted on 02/10/2023 12:27:31 PM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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Whether they’ve always been this way and I’ve gradually become more aware or if there is some new level of evil and malevolence that infests their ranks makes no difference to me. They are what they are!

You've a few years on me, I was born in 1962. 1991 was the turning point for me when I began seriously questioning the motives of our Government. By 1992 I hated the media and recognized them for the complete, total liars that they are.

I can't pinpoint the exact year, it was when a friend who'd been in Desert Storm I, and exposed to the burning oil wells / chemical crap that Saddam Hussein's military managed to disperse somehow, came home after the war and was sick for seemingly forever. According to him, he was advised to never father children. And he didn't. He died not long ago now. Cancer ate him up from the inside out.

2001 made my distrust of our government even worse, primarily because of the patriot act b.s. they had just waiting for a reason to get passed, the nonsense around the 2000 elections in late 2000/early 2001 and more than I can recount.

As if I needed any more reason to hate the "media", the "elites", "hollywood" and frankly literally all of Washington DC, 2016, 2020 and the Biden pResidency have just added logs to the fire.

It's so bad, I seldom if ever watch TV, being very selective of when I turn it on to watch something, perhaps once a week for an hour then off it goes, and my "social media" is here on FR.

Just sitting here for a few seconds while typing this reminded me of the b.s. the media pulled around Sarah Palin, my hatred of John McCain for refusing to vote down Obummercare to "get even" with Trump and more. I'd be typing for days.

The TL;DR version is this: There's ZERO reason to trust a damn' word from this Government or the "news media" and anyone who does is the Webster's Dictionary definition of stupid.

20 posted on 02/10/2023 12:58:44 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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