The Support page has been updated with Brad and David's current mailing addresses.

This website is here to tell David's and Brad's story and gather your support for them.

During the Republican National Convention in Minnesota last September, law enforcement conspired to repress people and free speech through brutality in the streets and entrapment and trumped up charges in court. More than 800 people were arrested, including journalists from NPR, AP and local radio and newspapers. Less than 3% of arrests were found to be prosecutable, which included Bradley Crowder (2 years) and David McKay (4 years) from Midland, Texas. You can find further reading about the 2008 RNC here.

Check out these videos, "Terrorizing Dissent": view Part 1 and Part 2 / The Ground Noise and the Static.

It is not over! Like many activists before them, our own Texas 2 fell victim to an FBI informant and provocateur. We will not forget! David McKay and Bradley Crowder have been held in jail since September 2008. Please help them continue to educate themselves and their fellow inmates with books and resources. Every little bit helps. Support the Texas 2! Support the RNC8! Free all prisoners of conscience!

Note: The RNC 8 are the folks who organized, as the RNC Welcoming Committee, against the 2008 Twin Cities Republican National Convention and who have been falsely charged in response to that (terrorism enhancement felony charges were dropped after the government informant was jailed on a criminal charge). More RNC arrest info: Friends of the RNC8 / Defend the RNC8! Dismiss the Charges! Petition / C.R.A.S.S. / Coldsnap Legal Collective / Other defendants: Jesse James Forrey / “Milwaukee Three”: Karen Meissner, Christina Vana, and Dave Mahoney.

Read below for updated blog postings related to these cases and beyond.

Brandon Darby in New Orleans : FBI Informant Was Egotistical Sexist

This Activist Life: FBI snitch was also a sexist, authoritarian, provocative fraud

http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/brandon-darby-in-new-orleans-fbi....

By Victoria Welle

Brandon Darby, The Texas 2, and the FBI's Runaway Informants

By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / May 26, 2009 http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/james-retherford-brandon-darby-te...

The Texas 2: Intrigue, Provocation, and Betrayal

The overarching story here is the blatant size of the federal government’s strategic operational use of informants and undercover agents against American citizens protesting eight years of Republican misrule in the streets of St. Paul.

Going It Alone: Anarchist Action at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions

This is a 35,000 word article from the Crimethinc Ex-Workers Collective (the original article has photos, hyperlinks, witness accounts and further reading).

Sentencing David McKay and Spinning the Media: Politicized & Ambitious Law Enforcement Downplays Informant Program

http://twincities.indymedia.org/2009/may/sentencing-david-mckay-and-spin...

Minneapolis, May 21st, 2009 — After his first federal trial ended in a hung jury[1], Texan David McKay pled guilty in a second trial rather than letting his friend from Austin and co-defendant, Bradley Crowder, be manipulated into testifying against him.

Brad sentenced to 2 years, David to 4 years

Texas man sentenced to 2 years in RNC Molotov cocktail case / http://www.twincities.com/ / 5/14/09

A federal judge today sentenced a Texas man to two years in prison for possessing Molotov cocktails during last year's Republican National Convention.

Bradley Neal Crowder, 24, was with a group of Texas activists who came to Minnesota to demonstrate during the convention in St. Paul in September. He and David Guy McKay were accused of making and possessing eight Molotov cocktails.

FBI infiltrated Iowa anti-war group before GOP convention

William Petroski / Des Moines Register / 5/17/09

An FBI informant and an undercover Minnesota sheriff's deputy spied on political activists in Iowa City last year before the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

Austin People's Legal Collective Spring Newsletter 2009

See attached pdf.

Between the State and a Hard Place: Statement on David McKay's Plea

Between the State and a Hard Place: Statement on David McKay's Plea
from the Austin Informant Working Group

The Austin Informant Working Group is an ad hoc collective of interested and affected individuals that formed to do research and media and legal work around the exposure of an FBI informant in the Austin radical community. The group is also helping to uncover the lessons about community accountability and security that must be learned from this debacle. It is not a prisoner support group and does not speak for Brad Crowder or David McKay.

RNC informant found guilty of assault in domestic dispute

"[The informant's] own criminal case could potentially undermine his credibility as a witness for the prosecution of individuals accused of violence."

http://twincities.indymedia.org/2009/mar/key-rnc8-informant-andrew-panda...
http://www.startribune.com/local/41694462.html / Minneapolis Star Tribune

An FBI informant during last September's RNC protests has been found guilty of assault and property damage charges in an unrelated incident.

David McKay Found Guilty / Court Report from Tuesday 3/17

In a tumultuous, somewhat stunning turn of events, David McKay's guilty plea was accepted in federal court in Minneapolis Tuesday, a day after Judge Davis indicated that he was unlikely to accept the plea on the basis of evidence pointing to entrapment by FBI informant and horrible human being-extraordinaire Brandon Darby at the original trial.

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