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Newly Unsealed Information on the May Day Investigation

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 10:45 -- Anonymous (not verified)

This pdf is the full (although including redactions) unsealed search warrant. It includes a thorough explanation from an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force agent of his investigation into anarchist activity on May Day and the potential targets of indictment. This document is a limited but important glimpse into how the state mounts a repression campaign against anarchists and thus should be carefully studied.

On PSA: http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/system/files/search_affadavit.pdf
externally: http://filecloud.io/l50xryui

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Submitted by Mister Grumpy on

These FBI motherfuckers aren't as stupid as they look; when they have such complete and allegedly accurate information, is it any wonder they will prosecute anyone who comes within reach? There is some serious breach of protest planning and decompression etiquette through such indiscriminate use of a COMPLETELY NON-SECURE medium like text messages. It sucks for our team.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

^^^FBI disinfo??

wordswordswords fuck you blogspam checker

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Good way to feed right into the fed's narrative of events. What about the texts was so insecure? What I saw was people making plans to go to a public demonstration. Since when has referring to a bandana or the safety of folks after a street demo become a sketchy thing? TextSecure is great, but also if people think that texting about publicly called demo's is sketchy than you have gone over the deep end of paranoia and should just save yourself the needless self aggrandizing and stay home.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

it's not 'sketchy' but this document is a reminder that it could be a mistake to do that if you are planning to do anything illegal at that protest.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

bad news. lots to be learned from this. two points, for now 1) don't fucking text anything. 2) if you have distinguishing features -- if you're left-handed, or very short -- think seriously about that fact.

also FUCK THE FBI!!!

Submitted by sumdood (not verified) on

That's been my point of contention with people trying to bring me into some shit for years. I'm over 6'4 and 250 pounds... my profile is very fucking identifiable.

Submitted by Tobias (not verified) on

hear hear...

I'm 7 foot 6 inches and 120 pounds dripping wet and my lover is 4 foot 9 inches and 280 pounds completely dry.

We would stand out like a porcupine at a skunk convention...boy howdy

Submitted by abonon (not verified) on

wouldn't a fat bloc be amazing? i've dreamed of such a thing. it sucks watching all the kids have fun while i'm the fatbody on the sidelines. gym class all over again, except i'm missing out on actual fun.
fat bloc! make it happen!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

^^THIS^^

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

“When Subject 4 throws the object, somebody seems to call Subject 4 a “bitch,” suggesting that Subject 4 is a woman”

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Just read through the documents, the Greensboro shit was WAY more interesting than this.

First thought is, those longer text messages seem sketchy as hell, least for the fact that they showed up in a report later. Whats to say the phone they got those messages off was already known to have those messages?

Seriously though, like 100 percent serious here: If that is all the evidence they have, despite the fact that the justice system is a joke and designed to put us in prison anyone with paid representation should be able to beat that charge.

Unless the charge is being there and being in black bloc when even the latter evidence is flimsy.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Yeah because it's a contest to see who can get the most interesting affidavit.

Submitted by Mister Grumpy on

The evidence was strong enough to get an almost unlimited warrant. Do you still harbor those liberal illusions that the criminal injustice system plays by the rules? People have been convicted on flimsier evidence than what appears in this affidavit.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Oh give me a fucking break, if you read what I wrote in full I mentioned that the justice system is designed to put us in prison, idiot.

Anyhow, when was the last time a judge didn't give the cops anything they asked for? That is par for the course.

That said, if they are trying to convict X individual for breaking X window and the information displayed is ALL we have I am trying to say that even within the limits of the system I believe they will be hard pressed to convict if the defendant have an attorney.

Is that liberal delusion? no bro.

Submitted by 7-25-2012 (not verified) on

Yo! Post the fucking affadavit from the July 25th raids, those are the juicy ones! The warrant for 'Anti-government literature'. Seems the FBI has stepped up their internal game by the time of this Oct 3rd warrant. Get the more obvious affadavit unsealed.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The affidavit for the July 25th raids hasn't been unsealed yet. This was unsealed because the NLG sued after it was "accidentally" unsealed a couple months ago and the Seattle PI got ahold of it, then the feds resealed it.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Leah-Lynn Plante

What the hell happened with her ?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

guys. hold up. she's really been through a lot. give her a couple days to recover and I'm sure she'll be able to give you the answers you need. she just needs space right now and support. DON'T email her or try to get in touch. she can't handle that right now.

Submitted by Maximum Snark (not verified) on

Leah-Lynn Plante is working at the Red & Black Cafe. She's been picking up shifts, going to anarcho-punk shows, and having more support than the other people throw in jail (superficial numbers on Facebook Support pages.)

Here's Leah-Lynn Plante at the Red & Black Cafe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJoBtU_4Auk

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

This is why you should encrypt all your digital devices and communications. Could you imagine how quickly this investigation would have dead-ended if they had just bothered to install TextSecure, and/or do full disk encryption on their phones?
Also, the rollover is correct.
Fucking spam blocker bullshit, Worker you need to do something about this. I'd rather see spam that have to dick around trying to get my posts through.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

So, what I gathered from all this, is don't be fuckin naive. Not everything is fucking hunky dory, "hurr durr im being safe, pass the molotov"

These motherfuckers are watching as best as they can. Wear hats. Cover your tattoos. Wear layers. Diversify your wardrobe (never thought I would say that...) And talk to your rad peeps about this stuff...

this shit is nothing compared to whats comin. niggas, they got drones with infrared technology... time for us to up the DIY Anarcho-Drones and destabilize their infrastructure/gadgets as best we can (aka, reroute their drones and smash the state) by any means necessary

this shit has only just begun... be safe but not ultra-paranoid. use the Tor, etc...

our children will be cyberpunks out of necessity. a culture of resistance in america must be established before its too late. and if it is already 'too late', then what the fuck have we got to lose?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Here's a concept, how bout' everyone stop fucking around with mobile phones?

They don't only use them to obtain admissions of guilt, but they also have and continue to successfully use them in order to place people at the same time and location a crime occurred.

Not to mention the tactics they employ against alleged gang organizations. Often without even having any idea/proof of what was said on the phone, they nonetheless use them to net a huge number of arrests on varying levels of conspiracy, simply because someone called someone else shortly after the commission of a crime. In such cases they frequently arrest people 4 or 5 times removed from the initial caller and in a number of cases that even included their parents.

Just because these tactics are currently socially acceptable to use against poc and alleged gang members (again anyone who is a poc) doesn't mean they will not soon be employing the tactic against @'s. This is just one way in how collective punishment works outside of prison in general society.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

does anybody know how precisely they can pinpoint your location? i'm assuming that it's very precise for gps enabled phones (although perhaps that's not recorded). but what about for other phones?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

How they relay through cell phone towers. It's not exact like gps but they can gather that you were in the general vicinity at any given time.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

yes, but is it right to assume they can't put you in front of a particular window at a particular time, whereas gps could?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

GPS about a 15ft radius

Without GPS about a 150ft radius in a city. More in a rural area.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I think that what's not revealed in this document but what should be considered is the possibility of a confidential informant also being involved. None of their supposed evidence would exist if they didn't already have Portland anarchists under surveillance. Given that there's a fair number of anarchists in Portland, the fact that they've supposedly identified those involved in property destruction would suggest that there was another means of them narrowing the scope of their surveillance to specific individuals.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

ding ding ding. I mentioned up thread the possibility that the text messages (which were hardly incriminating) were already to be known to be on the phone they were found on.

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

Maintain your anonymity
Don't leave paper, or cyber trails
You live in the world's largest police state
Act accordingly!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

If you do have an iphone, set your password to longer 8 or more characters rather than the 4 character default.
If you can, jailbreak it and install cydia so you can run tor off of your iphone.
If you're also calling instead of texting as much as possible plus the above two points, you'd be a lot better off (but never totally safe).

Encryption is always best.

The key to safety, however, is not technological although the capacity to remain invisible online is of utmost importance. What is significant is to have multiple insurgent circles running concurrently in a geographic area that are secure. For these circles to operate in as many ways as they can - some working jobs that give them access to resources, some producing and distributing propaganda, some helping to create and maintain antagonistic infrastructure, all of them participating in sabotage and attacks - is really important too to avoid subculturalism.
Anyone who has something to offer to a revolutionary momentum should be able to carve out a niche.

Multiply zones of opacity. This is what makes us safe. Not 50 people who are more-or-less secure waging a private war against the state but an unknown number of people, maybe starting very small, who are very secure and do their best to spread insurrectional practices deeply into society.

Escalating clashes with the police etc. is only worth it if it's a part of building our capacity to strike harder next time. There is no need to "give it all we've got" right now. If our actions and deeds aren't propaganda then lets not do it. Direct action is important sometimes, sure, but only if we can *actually* stop something from functioning - like an evil small business or something.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

lol "zones of opacity." how'd that work out for the inventors of that phrase? how opaque were they able to remain? the fact is: there's nothing you can do to be absolutely invisible. and most of things people think they can do just make it worse, by giving false illusions.

you're right that multiplying antagonists to the state creates a greater degree of safety. but not because people are really opaque, only because the state can't, in such a situation, track down every antagonist. but they sure can and will track down some of them.

Submitted by mr. bald (not verified) on

love the photo of my mom you used!! er, oh? I mean, "genesis p orridge". sigh.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

So what was the event on April 9th that they were surveilling? The nature of that event seems like an important thing for all to consider.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

consent-based genderqueer hot oil wrestling benefit party for a collectively run vegan strip club that was going to have to shutdown if it couldn't come up with rent. portland...go figure.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

ha ha

Sounds like an 80's comedy about anarchists with john candy, tom hanks, and eddie murphy as hip insurrectionary anarchists willing do anything for a buck...to save the local infoshop.

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