Why Non Violence Should Be Our Watchword

In glimpses and in glaring detail, the videotape images reveal the robust presence of disguised officers or others working with them at seven public gatherings since August 2004.

The officers hoist protest signs. They hold flowers with mourners. They ride in bicycle events. At the vigil for the cyclist, an officer in biking gear wore a button that said, "I am a shameless agitator." She also carried a camera and videotaped the roughly 15 people present.

Beyond collecting information, some of the undercover officers or their associates are seen on the tape having influence on events. At a demonstration last year during the Republican National Convention, the sham arrest of a man secretly working with the police led to a bruising confrontation between officers in riot gear and bystanders...

Back in the VietNam-Nixon era, it was not uncommon for the people publically advocating the most mad dog violent behavior to be what quaintly referred to as "narcs".

I know, because I saw it.

May I suggest there is now evidence they are back to their old J. Edgar Hoover-style tricks?

Illegal behavior plays into the scenario Dear Leader wants people to believe about his opposition.

So watch your step, people. They're planting mines. They want to set up whoever they can.