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No, it could be fun - spot the spy amongst us :-)  Given my supposed propensity to support "conventional views" (DoDo) that would seem to point to me  ... :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 06:28:04 AM EST
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Nonono, the provocateur is the guy who tries to talk the rest into rash, revolutionary (and illegal) actions. The bomb-thrower is more likely to be a plant than the banker.

So the spy would be

  • The new guy who's always going on about the need to forcibly overthrow The System(TM), who openly sympathises with direct action and always wants to have a piece of the action.

  • The disaffected long-timer who wants to distance himself from the community in order to ease his passage back into normal life.

  • The guy the cops have in a tight spot over some entirely unrelated issue (drug issues, petty criminal activity, etc.) who cuts a deal.

At least that's the archetypes in the manual I read on operational security for urban guerrillas.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 04:31:33 PM EST
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Oy:~! You've out'd me.

Oh well. I'll be in the states for most of that time, and can't travel after being away for so long, so can't make that last April date.

You'll have to do without the provocateur.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 04:02:56 AM EST
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