Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Misdirect Is Widespread in Occupy
There have been a handful of other reports around the country of infiltration. In Oakland, CopWatch filmed an Oakland police officer infiltrating. A nd, in another video CopWatch includes audio tape of an Oakland police chief, Howard Jordan, talking about how police departments all over the country infiltrate, not just to monitor protesters but to manipulate and direct them.
There were also reports in Los Angeles of a dozen undercover police in the encampment before they were forcibly evicted by the police. The raid by the LA police was brutal and resulted in mass arrests, with most charges dropped, but with others mistreated in jails. Similar pre-raid undercover activities were reported in Nashville,Tennessee .
Los Angeles also had infiltrators from the right wing group, Free Republic. They posted on their webpage a call for infiltrators to block a vote concerning an offer from the City of Los Angeles for virtually free space for Occupy LA: "Need LA Freepers to show up to block this vote by the Occupy LA General Assembly. How brave are you?" In the end, the LA occupy decided not to accept the offer from the city, something also opposed by other elements in the encampment.
Again and again we see that undercover police officers are the most energetic advocates for violence and the most disruptive participants. One of the many reasons to adhere to strict non-violence is to inoculate the movement against under cover police officers and other agent provocateurs.
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We should also consider privatized agent provocateurs
a la the Pinkertons.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mug shot books
With all the little cameras and camera phones carried around these days, I would think that files could be developed of possible and probable cop plants. In the OpEdNews piece that this post is based on, Margaret Flowers saw two infiltrators getting out of the back of a police van to join an Occupy crowd. If they were tailed and photographed they could be identified and exposed. I suspect that long lense photos of who is exiting precinct stations and FBI offices could be correllated with folks in Occupy crowds. Possible plants photographed at rallies might be used to spot patterns of behavior, also. A system would need to be developed to grade levels of suspicion up to pretty positive proof. I would say, however, that bringing up questions about where the money is going and questioning the self-appointed leadership does not strike me as suspicious. Leaders may see any questioning of their leadership as a red flag for a plant. I wouldn't be too sure.
it is already happening
go to YouTube, do a search on Occupy Under cover police officer, a whole bunch of videos will come up.