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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

See attached pdf.

"[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.

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.

For many people regardless of their politics, the most damming part of the Texas 2 case has been the claim that David McKay and Brad Crowder intended to target and injure law enforcement officers. This intent has been used to discredit both men and write off an entire movement of people as inherently violent.