They Know Who You Are
Absolutely no one in the media wants to talk about the involvement of the DEA in infiltrating protest groups. Especially the New York Times. I know it’s uncivil to write about being banned from a publication, being banned will get you being banned, but being banned gets you a lopsided POV. Kristof’s reporting is exemplary as far as it goes, but how does the New York Times infiltrate the infiltrated.
You don’t. You leave it out of the picture that gets painted. When it comes to the ability to infiltrate, there is no human organization that can match or even come close to matching the Drug Enforcement Agency. These people can get inside organized crime, drug runners, street gangs, and patriarchal structures of cultural hierarchy that are committed to secrecy at a fundamental level.
Protest groups don’t get the extent to which they have been penetrated. Or they would not be bringing smart phones to demonstrations. If the DEA can get within a certain distance of your phone, they’ve got you. I plead – no phones – but the idea of it is heresy. Protestors are angry, and it’s chaos that results, and that works for the government. But the DEA is quiet, and more subversive than a bus filled with anarchists. I am an anarchist, I have done nothing violent, nor will I, but I will write about what I see even if it annoys the New York Times.
Kristoff writes about what he sees and that is good. I write about the connection between La Paz and Portland.
They know who you are.