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Note by Hunter Bear [9/25/10] Before I turned in last night, I wrote this on the Redbadbear list where something of a discussion is developing on yesterday's FBI raids directed against anti-war activists. See http://www.startribune.com/local/103716104.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciatkEP7DhUsl There are not, as nearly as one can tell, any illegal overt acts involved -- or even alleged at this point -- with these groups and their members. This smells like the vaporous and poisonous "conspiracy doctrine" coming over the horizon yet again -- maybe fueled by paid informers. In the development of "red scares," the first groups attacked are those seen by authorities as the "least popular." And then It goes on from there. Whatever the differences among the forces of the Left and activist liberals, this is obviously "an injury to one . . ." challenge. Left and liberal groups still committed to Obama and Holder et al. should be losing whatever stars remain in their eyes -- and joining other activists in defending fundamental civil liberties principles. This is police state stuff -- using the "task forces" initially set up by Clinton under his Anti-Terrorism and Death Penalty Restoration Act and continued under Bush and beyond into the so-called Change administration. [H] The "conspiracy doctrine" is being used with increasing frequency by the Federal government to attack and harass a variety of peaceful dissenting groups in this country. Its usage requires no proof that any overt illegal action occurred -- simply that there was alleged "discussion" of such. And, as I've noted, "proof" of that is often tendered by paid government informers. I came of "radical age" at the beginning of 1955 when I was turning 21. That was in the pits of the Cold War "Red Scare" -- so I do have a reasonably informed historical [and contemporary] perspective on how these deliberately set "Scare" fires get started and managed in order to destroy democratic dissidence/organizations/movements. This piece of mine on a major example of this -- the Mine-Mill Conspiracy Case -- has been around before. There are new people on some lists who have not seen it and, even if you have, it would be worth a review: http://www.hunterbear.org/Mine-Millconspiracycase.htm HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´ and Ohkwari' Our Hunterbear website is now more than ten years old. It contains a vast amount of social justice material -- including much on techniques of grassroots activist organizing. Check out http://hunterbear.org/directory.htm See Outlaw Trail: The Native as Organizer: http://hunterbear.org/outlaw_trail1.htm [Included in Visions & Voices: Native American Activism [2009] See our extensive course on activist Community Organizing -- often with new material: http://hunterbear.org/my_combined_community_organizing.htm See: The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father] and its accompanying essay on Minority Adoptions and Native Land and Resources: http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
