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FBI affadavit on Sacramento arrests outlines deep infilatration of radical movements

by reposted from Bombs and shields
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Sacramento, California, U.S. - FBI documents released today reveal details about the state's case against Eric McDavid, Lauren Weiner, and Zachary Jensen, who were arrested Friday for allegedly conspiring to blow up U.S. Forest Service buildings buildings and cell phone towers on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front. According to the criminal complaint the group considered bombing the Nimbus Dam on the American River near Sacramento, a cellular telephone tower, a power station, banks, trucks, mountain-top-removal projects in West Virginia and Communist Party offices.

The complaint went on to claim that the three "scoped out" the US Forest Service's Institute of Forest Genetics in Placerville, California, building and the Nimbus Dam, on January 10th. The following day they allegedly purchased ingredients for a homemade bomb at an area Wal-Mart store. Agents say that they recovered a notebook from Eric McDavid which contained a diagram of the Forest Service Institute and pictures of pipe bombs.

Information in the complaint comes from a paid "confidential source (CS) who is deeply imbedded within the subjects' cell. The CS has worked for the FBI since early 2004. S/he has agreed to testify in court." Supporters identified the CS as a young woman named "Anna" who "went to Auburn" with the defendents shortly before their arrests. The document says that she has has provided information in at least 12 anarchist cases since 2004. She has traveled to and infiltrated various anarchist gatherings and protests across the country including the Biodev 2005 demonstrations in Philadelphia, a CrimethInc. convergence in Indiana and the Feral Visions green anarchist gathering in North Carolina. A police officer suffered a fatal heart attack during a confrontation at the Philadelphia protest which the defendants are now being linked to.

Additional information provided in the complaint was gathered from the defendant's own blogs and and MySpace.com an online community were at least one of the defendants has a personal profile and blog. MySpace is a popular networking and dating forum used by young people. MySpace profiles regularly contain fictitious information about individuals. For instance, one of the defendants profiles which was used against him in court said that he lives in "the barren wastelands, Morocco." A profile on the LiveJournal.com personal publishing site and online community was also used as evidence.

All three suspects are being held in the Sacramento County Jail. They have had difficulty receiving vegan or vegetarian meals from jail authorities. Lauren's case is particularly serious because she has Lymes disease which is maintained through dietary control and is also lactose intolerant. She has requested that people contact the jail on her behalf and request that she be given food which she can eat.
§Nimbus dam in Placerville
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The alleged MySpace profile of the arrestee is here:
http://www.myspace.com/ollieaucksen

(this is from the affadivit, and is public record)

this is a sreen capture of the myspace blog mentioned in the affadavit

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by anarchist
The ruling class must be shaking in it's shoes.
by anon
ive got a great idea. how about we all take cheap jabs at three people who are sitting behind bars while we sit behind our computers. i hope we can all be as insightful and sensetive as "Anarchist".
by .
well, it's clear that many people can change their perspective quite a bit. Try to remember what your position was 5 or 10 years ago. It's best to never have group meetings where anything illegal is discussed. First of all, if proposed specific illegal activity is heard or recorded, but isn't even carried out, that by itself can be taken by law enforcement as intention to carry it out. They could just say that the activity was attempted but averted, or that conspiracy took place.
So don't make a group for your direct action unless you are doing 'civil disobedience', such as the black bloc events in San Francisco.
I have had friends attend radical meetings where people were totally mouthing off on specific corporations or things they wished someone would do.
by i hate snitches
so....
yes these kids where not mindful of what they where saying to where and who. this "who" said a name (or so i read) there has to have been pictures of her.i think it would be nice to see what a informant looks like.
so....
friends of our prisoners of war look into every single image of these accused comrade and maybe we can find her so she cant hide behind her "democracy"

remember
snitches end up face down in ditches.get hyphee on'em.
And I hope we can someday finally learn, after centuries of conclusive experience, what is an effective action and what is not.
by Ulrike
I'm biased because I also work at a gov't genetics lab - but selecting the Forest service's genetics lab as a target was ridiculous, counterproductive, immoral, luddism.
I don't know what they're imagining is going on there, but the Forest Service is not developing new engineered strains of pine tree or whatever they are thinking. That sounds like a conservation genetics lab where they would measure how inbred the California condor has become, how connected rare stocks of trout are between different drainages, or what is going on with frogs that are rare due to their policy of stocking lakes with introduced fish, or asking questions about tree dispersal in replanted vs. natural stands. The forest service has no objective of doing frankenstein-sounding research that we've heard about from universities, plus that is really expensive so it would shock me if anyone was doing something objectionable there.

The paper also said they were targeting the RCP.
by .
being wise:
just from being told his myspace identity, you could find out what happened on May 21, 2005 by guessing some search terms and using a search engine. A mobility-disabled FBI agent could have kept tabs on Jensen: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1738691.php
by snitches imply a lack thereof
The dependency on anonymous snitches and "myspace" profiles as evidence indicates a lack thereof by the FBI (Foolish Bumbling Idiots). Yeah i heard somebody tell somebody else (through a friend) that this other person they knew were gonna blow something up. Blah, blah, blah. The goon squad FBI is patching together some real flimsy evidence as part of their Homeland Security war on the American people privacy. This flimsy informant evidence is relied upon more and more by police state due to lack of anything substantial. Similar as with the late Stanley Tookie Williams, his conviction happened because of the classic jailhouse informant (or parolee), a neighboring cellmate who got off death row from serious offenses because informant gave info (supplied via police) on Tookie that led to his conviction. The DA is a well paid con artist, and like other sociopaths lacks a conscience..

To avoid these and other complications, trust only yourself and consider some low level lone wolf actions..

Some environmentalists get snagged and locked up in prison indefinitely, all because some mysterious individual named "Anna" said so? Maybe "Anna" has some charges of her own that she is attempting to work off. Classic infiltrations of anarchist/EF!/enviros include police depending on people with criminal background who want to get reduced charges. Many sociopaths are more than willing to give info, hearsay or use thier imagination to convict somebody else who may be causing corporations some problems with their activism. This does not imply that these activists are actually planning any terrorist activity, though they may have gained secret info that would damage a corporation's image if released to the public..

Wake up and smell the bullshit, America, because right now you're drowning in it..

Also need to mention insurance fraud and the possibility that certain corporations/gov agencies, including US Forest Service may be attempting self sabatoge with the claim "eco-terrorism" and framing some nearby activists who are a thorn in their side. Everything in this case works out to the benefit of the corporation. Even the public image of the corporations as victims of "evildoer ecoterrorists" can bring sympathy from the consumers who now purchase or support a product that they wouldn't under ordinary circumstances. An example is the SUV dealership realizing that public demand for SUVs is on the decline, so a self inflicted vandalism enables the dealer to collect insurance, frame activists and become victims in the public image..

Note that the same SUV dealership in the news from Free's three vehicles (later repaired and sold) was later targeted and had over 40 some vehicles completely damaged. Now only after the greater damage the SUV dealership could collect insurance money, not much if anything from the small damage of three vehicles. The later vandalism was also blamed on Free, which resulted in his excessive sentence. Is it possible that the SUV dealership benefitted from the second vandalism from collecting insurance money. Maybe before the "eco-terrorist" media publicity SUV sales were on a decline, and after the so-called eco-terrorism the paranoid Republicans all rushed to the lot to purchase the new SUVs paid for by insurance money..

Personally i don't think that blowing up dams is the answer, the seismic movement of the Earth's tectonic plates will eventually accomplish that better than any explosives ever will. Unfortunalye many people are living their daily existance in the path of a flood while the government remains silent. Maybe people need to realize that their safety is an illusion, and the current messengers of the impending disasters are now incarcerated where their voices will be muffled by concrete walls..

This may sound like another conspiracy theory, but look at the patterns of abuse coming from imperialism and fascist governments. Scapegoats are always needed, from Nazi Germany (communists, Jews, Gypsy, homosexual, etc..) to the modern day US empire (enviros, Arabs, Africans, Mexicans, homosexuals, etc..) certain vulnerable populations have always been targeted and blamed to cover up the worse crimes of the corporatists (military weapons contracters, oil corporations, chemical/biotech corporations, etc.)..

Free ALL political prisoners, we will continue to fight against US imperialism at home and abroad..

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