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7/6 - Disclosure: Tacoma police made note of 'derogatory' post, Tacoma News Tribune
7/1 - This Blog is Tapped, Utopia or Bust
7/1 - Jihads and Eric Anderson's email (UPDATED), Political Buzz
City of Tacoma Public Records Request Redaction/Withholding Log
7/1 - This Blog is Tapped, Utopia or Bust
7/1 - Jihads and Eric Anderson's email (UPDATED), Political Buzz
City of Tacoma Public Records Request Redaction/Withholding Log
Comments [16]
 by thriceallamerican on 7/7/2009 @ 8:49am | Hee. Marilyn Strickland as Marcie from Peanuts. |
 by NineInchNachos on 7/7/2009 @ 11:55am | govwatcher from TNT comment says:
"Many key City of Tacoma employees are aware that information gathering techniques go much further. Like the procurement of video footage, some obtained at council meetings, some at protests, some from public gatherings. Files of these video clips containing suspicious, odd or questionable behavior are compiled by city personnel with the rumored intention of potentially being used in future court cases the city might be involved in. Some video files are rumored to be quite extensive. Who is in them? Many ordinary people, but… the most extensive collections of video footage are of individuals that the Tribune has also written about frequently in its articles or blogs. The brothers (they are brothers, right?) Hill come to mind. Ask to see the footage. Some of it is actually humorous (in a strange sort of way). Confirmation is yours through a Freedom of Information request." |
 by Erik on 7/7/2009 @ 4:16pm | Hey RR, The threat of terrorism is real!!!!!1! |
 by fredo on 7/7/2009 @ 6:35pm | The footnote in the cartoon says "see tacomic 8/19/08". I could find no tacomic associated with this date. |
 by Thorax O'Tool on 7/7/2009 @ 6:42pm | On the List: Kevin Freitas: runs website that allows open discussion... likely communist or terrorist sympathizer. Add to no fly list. RR Anderson: Bearded, decidedly leftist political leanings, made fun of us in cartoon. Confirmed terrorist, send to labor camp in far Northern Alaska at earliest convenience Thorax O'Tool: fake name, uses non-Microsoft, non-Apple software, dislikes police, distrusts politicians, sees through the charade that is the two party system. National security risk, prepare cell at Guantanamo. Jesse Hill: sanity questionable, carries squirt guns to city hall, speaks Klingon. Possible 2016 Demipublican presidential candidate. Erik: No known last name, indicates something to hide. Confiscate computer, freeze assets and hold in detention until we have stolen enough of his good stuff. NOTE: leave Blondie CDs. No one at the NSA likes Blondie. Fredo: Dislikes illegal immigrants, adheres to strict moral code, views do not match current administration's. Likely terror sympathizer, keep under 24/7 surveillance. Altered Chords: makes music that confuses the President, also may encourage vice. Have followed by thugs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm amazed only one of us made it on the no-fly list. |
by NineInchNachos on 7/7/2009 @ 8:07pm | I encourage you folks to scan through that 200 page pdf (bottom link under cartoon) start and the last page and work back for interesting stuff. The TNT doesn't have the man power to do it themselves. post your unusual findings to the comment thread here, just make note of page No.
I'm assuming that the more suspicious organizations in the city opens up more grant money from the feds. I wonder how much the presence of the pitch pipe infoshop anarchist kids has delivered to the city's local security industry? |
 by JesseHillFan on 7/9/2009 @ 2:14am | Our local super hero the traveller yeah ! |
by NineInchNachos on 7/28/2009 @ 10:35am | Hey guess what? remember that law that makes it illegal for the military to act as law enforcement inside the United States of America? Well forget it!
"Newly declassified documents reveal that an active member of Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance in Washington state was actually an informant for the US military. The man everyone knew as “John Jacob” was in fact John Towery, a member of the Force Protection Service at Fort Lewis. The military’s role in the spying raises questions about possibly illegal activity. The Posse Comitatus law bars the use of the armed forces for law enforcement inside the United States. The Fort Lewis military base denied our request for an interview. But in a statement to Democracy Now, the base’s Public Affairs office publicly acknowledged for the first time that Towery is a military operative. “This could be one of the key revelations of this era,” said Eileen Clancy, who has closely tracked government spying on activist organizations." www.democracynow.org/2009/7/28/broadcast... |
by NineInchNachos on 7/31/2009 @ 11:02am | "A Yale Law School faculty member and military law expert said he is disturbed by allegations that Fort Lewis employed a civilian who spied on an Olympia-based anti-war organization.
Eugene R. Fidell, a former judge advocate for the Coast Guard and the president of the National Institute of Military Justice, said such a practice appeared to violate the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that prohibits the use of the Army for conventional law enforcement activities against civilians." www.thenewstribune.com/359/story/827959.... |
 by jenyum on 7/31/2009 @ 1:49pm | Pretty sure I called this one a while back...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur |
by jenyum on 7/31/2009 @ 2:40pm | I wonder who Pongo is: (or was)
www.feedtacoma.com/forum/tacoma-developm... www.feedtacoma.com/forum/in-the-news/hil... According to the Democracy Now report, Towery was involved in the maintenance of the group's listserv, I wonder if he also had a role in writing some of the indymedia news releases for local anarchist groups, which always seemed over the top provocative to me. |
by NineInchNachos on 8/15/2009 @ 10:53am | ANONYMOUS: "is it just me or has the TNT not followed up in the last month and a half on the police basketball paid-to-play scandal or the homeland security meeting minutes?" RR: "the TNT has been quiet. About the only thing they keep tabs on is the referendum 71 signatures." ANONYMOUS: "Man, I was pissed to see the TNT/Olympian report that the U.S. Military sent a spy to infiltrate the anti-war demonstrators and then do no follow up. Combined with the homeland security minutes and other info, this looks like the tip of the iceberg for a much wider counterintelligence program against the anti-war left. That story went national, got picked up by Democracy Now, and the TNT just rolls along covering birthday parties for centenarians. Grr..." |
by NineInchNachos on 1/15/2010 @ 2:35pm | from democracy now:
Peace Activists File Civil Suit over Military Spying Peace activists in Olympia, Washington have filed a civil suit over spying by a US military informant who infiltrated their group. Declassified documents obtained by Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance revealed a man everyone knew as “John Jacob” was in fact John Towery, a member of the Force Protection Service at Fort Lewis. When Democracy Now! broke the story last July, one of the activists, Brendan Maslauskas Dunn, said Towery had personally admitted to the spying. Brendan Maslauskas Dunn: “He admitted that, yes, he did in fact spy on us. He did in fact infiltrate us. He admitted that he did pass on information to an intelligence network, which, as you mentioned earlier, was composed of dozens of law enforcement agencies, ranging from municipal to county to state to regional, and several federal agencies, including Immigration Customs Enforcement, Joint Terrorism Task Force, FBI, Homeland Security, the Army in Fort Lewis.” The exposure of the spying also led to disclosures of intelligence gathering and sharing about the activists by the Air Force, the federal Capitol Police, the Coast Guard and local and state police. In addition to Towery, the suit also targets various city and police officials in Olympia as well as a US Coast Guard official. |
by NineInchNachos on 12/2/2010 @ 8:39pm | A former Joint Base Lewis-McChord employee who allegedly spied on an Olympia anti-war group was serving as an informant for the both Pierce County Sheriff’s Office and Tacoma Police Department, according to documents released this week to The Associated Press.
Read more: www.thenewstribune.com/2010/12/02/144871... |
 by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 12/2/2010 @ 9:06pm | Alice the Goon as Talbert? |
by NineInchNachos on 1/26/2011 @ 7:57am | an update!
www.thenewstribune.com/2011/01/25/151614... |
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