Very important info for activists. Even if they never see this guy it is good to be reminded that others like him are out there.

Don't let yourself be provoked into doing something illegal.

If not given into, a collection of ideological and gender based smears followed any refusal. IOW, the person being hit upon is a traitor to the Cause, not pure enough.

Ran a lot of people off and caused a lot of division. It's still going on in other ways, will likely always go on. It's just another divide and conquer technique.

Looking out for agent provocateurs in any kind of venue is not paranoia, it's survival. The first thing taught as e trained for our anti-war, civil rights and environmental actions was that anyone trying to incite violence, is THE MAN.

Shun him, don't fall for the passion or go for the drama. He is NOT your ally and is looking to discredit what you're doing.

A friend in Vietnam Veterans Against the War was involved in planning large protests in D.C. back then, and along with reps of other peace groups attended pre-protest meetings with law enforcement reps. In the next few years, my friend said, he learned that more than half of the protesters' reps actually were undercover law enforcement officers from various agencies.

I suspect that even my friend turned informant at one point. He was set up for a drug bust by undercover agents, but the one thing he didn't explain, either in his published memoir or in talks with those who knew him, was how he got out of the charges.

I was collecting notes on him last year when he and Lee Stranahan were responsible for the anti-Occupy smear job, Occupy Unmasked, done on behalf of the late Andrew Breitbart. Here's something Stranahan wrote at one of the Breitbart websites, whining about how his sock puppet here at DU had a post deleted in which he defended Darby:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/02/21/democratic-undergrounds-hides-occupy-assaults-smears-brandon-darby

21 Feb 2012

The popular liberal website Democratic Underground had a vicious, factually inaccurate post about Bigs contributor Brandon Darby and our work on the story of assaults at Occupy. I decided to correct these errors and my post was promptly banned by a "jury" at Democratic Underground and hidden from view; another clear example of the constant liberal censorship and how the entire left seems intent on covering up assaults at Occupy.

The original thread started Saturday was entitled Why are FBI agent provocateurs taunting Occupy? was started by a user named FarLeftFist, who wrote: "A little background: Brandon was outed as an FBI agent after posing as an Leftist activist in 2008. He threw a number of people in jail as an agent provocateur and now spends his time working for Andrew Breitbart and still works undercover. He spends his time on Twitter along with Andrew Breitbart taunting Leftists and posting smears ALL DAY LONG. Him and Andy also spend alot of time along with Dana Loesch having twitter-wars with Keith Olbermann and others. I have been involved in these back and forths as a twitter user myself. They get nasty, ugly, and even threatening as Darby and Breitbart unleash their moronic henchmen on anyone they choose" . . .

So, I had a Democratic Underground account I started a couple of years ago but haven't used. I decided it was time to post. I said: ". . . And now you attack a guy -- Brandon -- who STOPPED people from using Molotov Cocktails. That's the 'snitching' he did; stopping admitted, convicted liars who wanted to perpatrate violence. Is violence okay if Republicans are your targets? Stop acting like sheep and believing the radical left's lies."

In less than an hour, I relieved the following, telling me that my post was hidden by a "randomly selected jury." The Kafkaesque anonymous cyber tribunal didn't ask me to testify or ask any questions. Such is left wing "justice."

I would guess that whatever is going on isn't just a matter of Darby doing his provocateur act. I suspect he and Stranahan are hoping for an opportunity to smear the Justice for Trayvon Martin movement in general -- probably by accusing it of being yet another ACORN operation.

If I were among the protesters, I'd also be on the lookout for James O'Keefe, who was also sniffing around Occupy Wall Street back in 2011 in association with the other Breitbart people.

A self-justification Darby originally wrote for Breitbart's Big Government can be found at http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=4367.0;wap2.

It runs through his claims of having had a run-in with ACORN in New Orleans after Katrina when he was still ostensibly a leftist, says that his growing disillusionment with the left after he returned to Texas led him to become an FBI informant, and ends by smearing activist Lisa Fithian.

And here's something from Matthew Vadum praising Darby and Stranahan. Vadum is the person who did more than anyone else to destroy ACORN and is the inventor of the complicated conspiracy theories involving people like Frances Fox Piven that Glenn Beck has been responsible for giving wider distribution. Beck has more or less said that Vadum taught him everything he knows.

A year ago, Vadum recommended the Darby/Stranahan radio show, writing, "Darby is the former radical community organizer who helped undermine an anarchist plot to attack the 2008 Republican convention in Minnesota as revealed in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books)." (https://www.capitalresearch.org/2012/04/darbystranahan/)

So if Darby has been seen crawling around, this is not just some random FBI provocation. This is the usual suspects looking to paste the Trayvon Martin protests into their all-embracing conspiracy theories and using them to smear Occupy and/or the Democratic Party. (They don't much seem to care which.) The protesters are well-advised to be on their guard.

of Charles Johnson (who found sanity) from the LGF blog.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/280527_Beckbot_Brandon_Darby_Tells_Ma

So don't think if THIS Brandon Darby isn't infiltrating your leftist group, that you
are safe from such infiltration .. just sayin'

It's absolutely true that any protest movement needs to assume it's riddled with infiltrators and act accordingly. But Darby is something different. Once he'd done his original provocateur thing, he was of no further use to the FBI. They presumably cast him loose at that point -- and Breitbart came to his rescue. Now that Breitbart is gone, he seems to be dealing with Glenn Beck. But whatever the details, he seems to be primarily functioning as a smear artist, trying to find dirt on dissidents and cast them in the most embarrassing possible light. He's a slightly less erratic version of James O'Keefe and correspondingly more dangerous.

there are a few who learn by observation, and most of the rest just have to try peeing on an electric fence themselves before they believe you when you tell them it's not a good idea to pee on the third rail in the underground

We are, of course, sad to hear that your young chums have been imprisoned -- though it's likely we would have actually broken out in tears had we heard instead they seriously injured someone with Molotov cocktails -- and so we thought we'd offer some advice, on the off-chance that some of you sometimes learn by reading

(1) It is almost impossible to make an articulate and convincing argument with Molotov cocktails. Whenever you find yourself thinking that burning down Moe's diner will make everybody nicer, will encourage some chef somewhere to cook kickass apple pies and sell huge slices at giveaway prices, and will bring the neighborhood around to your way of thinking, ask a friend to smack you in the nose and yell You stupid fuck! -- because what WILL happen, if you carry through on your shit-headed plan, is that most people will conclude there is something wrong with your head, lots of them will hope you should be shot down like rapid dogs, nobody will care why you did it, and anybody who's been seen with you will be demonized as murderous arsonists by the opposition. It's not merely a waste of energy: it's counter-productive

(2) Objectively speaking, the shithead who is trying to talk you into manufacturing Molotov cocktails is not your friend. He may be an otherwise nice person with some screws loose; he may be somebody trying to disrupt your movement; he may be any number of things, but friend he is not. We aren't lawyers, and don't want to practice law without a license, so if you need real legal advice, talk to somebody who's actually passed the bar, but we will say:
(2a) entrapment law is tricky: yes! there is such a thing as entrapment but no! an entrapment defense probably won't work for you when you want to argue that somebody talked you into manufacturing Molotov cocktails; and
(2b) if some shithead is going around trying to talk folk into manufacturing Molotov cocktails, and you know about it, and then somebody does it, you might find yourself facing a conspiracy charge, unless you make it damn clear you completely oppose such a thing and won't have any part of it

the answer is, more or less, no: lots of it is common knowledge from the sixties movements, with some stuff i learned by reading nelson mandela, all stuck under a somewhat garbled version of a famous will rogers quote

cheez.

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I just checked, he's working for Breitbart now.

Looks like they're infested with right wing, anti-civil rights trolls and outright Russian collaborators.

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