Brandon Darby: FBI Snitch
This American Life had an episode about turncoats. The majority of the program featured a piece on Brandon Darby. Darby worked as an anti-authoritarian activist/radical in the Texas and Louisiana and then eventually became a proud FBI informant.
The episode is extremely interesting, insightful, and I encourage everyone to download it or find the podcast.
It describes a great example of attempting to put anarchy into action but falling into the usual trappings. It also illustrates the difficulties in radicals who are not organically part of a community embedding themselves in a community to progress their ideas.
Can Darby's accounts even be trusted? He conveniently links a bunch of boogeymen; as if radicals are naturally in bed with Hugo Chavez, FARC, and use seemingly harmless words as secret code for criminal activity. He reminds me of David Horowitz who has used his leftwing credentials to gain fame as a rightwinger with supposed insight into the left. This fuckin douchebag, Darby, also pulls the tired line that young radicals are simply well-meaning youth who are duped and misled by Machiavellian leaders of anarchy.
Brandon Darby is a dominating egomaniac! The more I listened to him talk and casually brag about how enlightened he is, the more I hated him... and the more I felt bad for Bradley Crowder and David McKay.
Brad and David were entrapped by Darby and the pigs and are now sentenced to 2 and 4 years.
SUPPORT BRADLEY CROWDER & DAVID MCKAY
BRANDON DARBY: PROUD SNITCH INFO SITE
(thanx Frank)
The episode is extremely interesting, insightful, and I encourage everyone to download it or find the podcast.
It describes a great example of attempting to put anarchy into action but falling into the usual trappings. It also illustrates the difficulties in radicals who are not organically part of a community embedding themselves in a community to progress their ideas.
Can Darby's accounts even be trusted? He conveniently links a bunch of boogeymen; as if radicals are naturally in bed with Hugo Chavez, FARC, and use seemingly harmless words as secret code for criminal activity. He reminds me of David Horowitz who has used his leftwing credentials to gain fame as a rightwinger with supposed insight into the left. This fuckin douchebag, Darby, also pulls the tired line that young radicals are simply well-meaning youth who are duped and misled by Machiavellian leaders of anarchy.
Brandon Darby is a dominating egomaniac! The more I listened to him talk and casually brag about how enlightened he is, the more I hated him... and the more I felt bad for Bradley Crowder and David McKay.
Brad and David were entrapped by Darby and the pigs and are now sentenced to 2 and 4 years.
SUPPORT BRADLEY CROWDER & DAVID MCKAY
BRANDON DARBY: PROUD SNITCH INFO SITE
(thanx Frank)
posted by shane at 12:27 PM
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"a kid who tells on another kid is a dead kid"
--Nation of Ulysses (circa 1991)
Indeed.
I almost named this entry after that song!.. but thought it might be too inflammatory as a title.
;)
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