Stanley L. Cohen

 radical sapphoq says: I dedicate this post to Stanley L. Cohen. He is due in court this week and expects to be sentenced to eighteen months in prison under a plea deal. He has a vast amount of legal bills. Please consider contributing to his defense fund. Stanley has been there for Anonymous, Occupy, and many other people who are part of various movements for change.

     https://istanleycohen.org/index.php/defend

     https://defendstanleycohen.myevent.com/3/donate.htm
      


     Stanley can be found on-line at:
    https://istanleycohen.org/ 
and also at:
    https://twitter.com/StanleyCohenLaw




     Stanley L. Cohen has a long history of defending unpopular defendants. Yes, he has defended accused terrorists in court. Yes, he is currently not able to enter either Israel or Egypt due to his defense work. Yes, he is scheduled to go to prison under a plea deal involving some taxes.

     Stanley has also defended the rights of squatters in New York City, folks who are categorized by the public as hacktivist members of the collective known as Anonymous, and people who have become embroiled in the legal system for exercising their freedom of speech.  

     
     Stanley has been called a terror lawyer, a rip-off, an LOL lawyer, greedy bastard, and other things like that.

        

     Stanley has also been called an internet folk hero, a peoples' lawyer, iconoclast, radical, zealous advocate, political activist. I call him my brother. My e-book Up The Rebels - which I hope will be out soon - is dedicated to Stanley L. Cohen [and Edward J. Snowden]. 

                           #UpTheRebels!


References:

    https://rally.org/covers/3tjDvEYOdLC

https://www.change.org/p/honorable-norman-a-mordue-justice-for-stanley-cohen

https://freestanleycohen.com/

https://freestanleycohen.xs2.net/

https://freeanons.org/freeanons-supports-stanley-cohen/



 https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2014/10/19/attorney-stanley-l-cohen-guilty-of-doing

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEQdmmHtZfzQiRj7OsGL7ig/feed
       https://mohsenabdelmoumen.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/urgent-justice-for-stanley-cohen/

    https://60spunk.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/stanley-cohen/

https://www.nationofchange.org/2014/10/07/ordeal-stanley-l-cohen-justice-farce/
and:
https://www.rense.com/general96/atty.html
reprinted this one:
 https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/justice_as_farce_20141005

     https://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/13/scorn-icy-stares-are-part-job-for-lawyers-who-represent-despised-terrorism/

     https://thevillager.com/2014/05/01/stanley-cohen-speaks-out-about-taxcharges-as-supporters-rally-to-his-defense/

    https://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/2/20/5419474/broken-stride-when-runner-ashley-poissant-was-killed-by-an-alleged

     https://revolution-news.com/uptherebels/

    https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/urgent-appeal-defense-attorney-stanley-cohen

    https://www.anonymousvideo.eu/stanley-cohen-defense-fund.html



    https://www.ndtv.com/topic/stanley-cohen

    https://wn.com/stanley_cohen

    https://www.vice.com/read/talking-to-stanley-cohen-terror-lawyer-and-internet-folk-hero

    https://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/videos/attorney-stanley-cohen-talks-over-the-paypal-14-case/

 https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_go_to_lawyer_of_northern_virginiastan

  https://pressroom.blogs.pace.edu/2003/01/16/activist-stanley-l-cohen-to-speak-on-attorney-ethics-at-pace-law-school/




     https://israelbehindthenews.com/profile-of-stanley-cohen-the-jewish-lawyer-for-the-hamas/3769/

https://observer.com/2001/10/kunstler-protege-stanley-cohen-brings-american-rights-to-hamas/





        https://legalinsurrection.com/2014/10/convicted-tax-cheat-stanley-cohen-re-pledges-allegiance-to-hamas/

     https://legalinsurrection.com/2014/04/hamas-attorney-stanley-cohen-pleads-guilty-to-tax-offenses/




    https://www.josephacamp.com/2014/04/stanley-cohen-convicted-felon.html

https://www.ripoffreport.com/r/scammed-by-attorney-stanley-l-cohen/new-york-new-york-10013/scammed-by-attorney-stanley-l-cohen-stanley-cohen-law-office-stanley-l-cohen-law-offic-557005

     https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Joseph_Camp



https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=627

    https://forward.com/articles/195134/how-stanley-cohen-went-from-orthodox-to-defending/?p=all

    https://bedfordandbowery.com/2014/01/stanley-cohen-defends-himself-one-month-bin-ladens-son-in-law-the-next/

https://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/terrorist-lawyer-stanley-cohen-busted-for-millions-in-tax-evasion/

    https://allergic2bull.blogspot.com/2013/05/stanley-cohen-reveals-waaaay-too-much.html

    https://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/landlord-to-embattled-attorney-stanley-cohen-pay-up-or-get-out/

    https://jewishdefenseorganization.net/stanley.htm

And the Fed Informants Keep Turning Up...

The Feds and their informants on Twitter call themselves computer consultants or radio dee jays or poets.  [On FakeBook/FailBook/FB they refer to themselves as "your friends"].  The mother of a close friend in high school used to always tell us that truth is stranger than fiction.  It certainly is.

I tweet [a.k.a. converse] with a truly diverse bunch on Twitter.  It is fortunate that Twitter is not happening in real-life in someone's living room.  Guns would be drawn and people would die.  My Anonymous friends and the ninjas dislike each other.  The good-time trolls and the anti-cyberbullies can find little common ground.  Even the child abuse and human trafficking folks are divided into camps.

I've written posts about Lori Handrahan and I've written about WWASPS-- I don't like either one of them.  I've discussed the alleged infiltration of the Million Dollar March in D.C. by a poet which some believe to be a Fed [and I believe that too.  I could be wrong.  At any rate, I will not be going to D.C. on November 5th].  I haven't blogged about the PayPal 14 or the PayBack 13 for two reasons.  I think others can tell the tale better than I can.  One of the PayBack 13 is someone that I've never met in real life but I consider him to be a friend.

I've written some about my politics but not much about the political ideologies that I've found on Twitter.  I will do a little bit of that now.  Those who know me know that I am pro-gun, anti-amnesty for illegal aliens, pro-secularism in the public schools, anti-N.S.A., pro-free internet, anti-CISPA and the current exaggeration of copyright "protections" in effect today which pretty much render fair use dead, pro-civil rights for all civils, and anti-Obummer Care.  I don't like the A.C.A. stuff because I found a chart with the rates on the U.S. government site-- a chart with public permissions and a download button-- and even with "rebates," I found that the Affordable Care Act is not affordable for me.  Quite frankly, when my circumstances change, I will have to leave the country in order to afford healthcare if ObummerCare is still the ahem law of the land.  The A.C.A. would have been a better idea if it was not 2300 pages of something that Nancy Pelosi has been quoted as saying that we will have to pass it in order to find out what is in it.  Or something like that.  If it was Open Market [versus tied to the federal government and to the states] and did not penalize the uninsured for not joining up, it might have been less of a disaster than it is.  Universal healthcare is a grand idea but the implementation of it to date has sucked.  Period.  It needs to be re-worked and not just patched.

I can no longer call myself a liberal.  I have refused to join Unite Blue on Twitter.  Although I am an atheist and not a christian, I have found myself a political home of sorts on Twitter with Todd Kincannon and some other conservatives.  I have no desire to argue with christians over their religious and spiritual choices.  I do have a desire to write snarky things at the pope once in awhile [yes, his unholiness is on Twitter along with the apologetics for bad behavior of the roman church].  I will engage in snark with a few muslims who think that we ought to follow islam; and with a few of the more extreme christians who are as obsessed with conversions on Twitter as a transfolk is with mutilation via surgical means.  Besides, Todd and Ashley have a dog named Noodle [who is also on Twitter]. 

Todd's Twitter stream is full of people who randomly attack him for his viewpoints, coarseness, and language.  It is never dull.  He does not seek out targets.  They seek him out.  The results are rather zany.  He's been accused of being a bully and several other things which I won't print here.  Todd has several long-standing adversaries and bunches of folks who find his comebacks too witty and have the sense to depart quickly.  The long-standing ones don't have the sense to use their block button, to drop the endless tweets accusing him of all kinds of things, to accept that not everyone on Twitter has to approve of them or their thoughts or beliefs.  Believing in equal rights-- or in civil rights for all civils-- is not an endorsement of all lifestyles on the planet.  This is something that many folks get mixed up about.  Todd says stuff that an average person may think but doesn't say.

Last night a guy who characterizes himself as a "real brother" and his allies appeared on Todd's stream.  This real brother has been accused of being racist and a drug-runner of sorts in other places on the interwebz.  Todd informed this real bro that Todd wanted him to put away or put down for drug crimes [of the foul nature that the real brother is alleged to have committed, and may or may not be continuing in the present].  A quick search engine search revealed that the real brother was doxed by someone in Anonymous and that the real bro is suspected of having turned fed informant.  Another name to add to the list of people that other people think are fed informants.  Ha!

Then we all heard from an anti-bullying coalition of sorts.  Calling names is bad m'kay.  One guy pointed out that cyberbullying is a bit of fakery as we all have the choice to step away from the computer or go do something else online.  In response, another guy inferred that anyone who finds Todd's stuff to be witty has a mental deficiency.  I snarked back in fun that the latter guy just insulted me and my kin, and that we are hashtag MentallyDivergent.  The anti-bullying coalition account retweeted my snark-- perhaps not realizing that I was having fun.  And so on.  Hanging with Todd and other conservatives on Twitter is never boring.  It is a nice break from the drama of current news and current political disasters and reports of earthquakes in places that I may have never heard of.

So last night resulted in the outing of yet another possible Fed informant to add to the list that I keep in my head.  I enjoyed my time on Twitter last night.  It's nice to be nice.  Sometimes we can be too nice.  In my life I certainly have been too nice.  I learned from Todd Kincannon what to do when people attack me with name-calling and their supposes of my character rather than arguing with my ideas in a logical manner.  I retweet them, being careful to add a period before the enclosed a and their twitter handle.  Sometimes I favor their tweet.  Because I can laugh at myself today.

If I have thoughts of suicide, something is wrong with me and I ought to make an appointment with a health care professional.  If I am that fragile that I think some mean comments on the internet can push me over the edge, then I better take up crocheting washcloths and watching soap operas for a hobby instead of social media.  Getting faux-fended is my problem, not the problem of the big meanie poo-poo head who rocked my unself-esteem with their words.  If a stranger from the interwebz shows up uninvited to my home and neighborhood, then it is time for cops and guns and dogs with sharp teeth. 

radical sapphoq


p.s.  A final word to parents with kids and teens.  They're your rat bastards.  You parent them.  You are responsible to know what they are doing on their computers and cell phones.  The computer should be out in the open like in the living room.  You should be monitoring what they do on-line as well as off-line.  There are ways to do this.  Find those ways.  Learn the technology.  Supervise your children.  They are your responsibility until they become adults.

p.s.s.  "Twitter" refers to http://www.twitter.com.  By using the word Twitter, it is not my intention now or ever to take over, cybersquat, make profit from, or otherwise defame the Twitter name.  I am not affiliated in any way with Twitter other than being a tweeter.  And the staff and owner or owners of Twitter probably have no idea who I am and don't care who I am as long as I am not being mean to them on the interwebz which I am not.

 

Interesting Reads

https://data.healthcare.gov/dataset/QHP-Individual-Medical-Landscape/ba45-xusy
It's listed as public permissions and there is a download button too.  These are prices for
the healthcare plans it seems.




http://www.libertynews.com/2012/04/radio-host-theron-k-cal-berates-insults-and-harasses-black-female-caller/

http://rbradioshow.blogspot.co.uk/

http://realbrother.wordpress.com/

www.facebook.com/Realbrother0003

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z604WbTJQmY

http://twicsy.com/i/b8UjP

http://thewordfortheherd.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-theron-k-cal.html

http://pastebin.com/qE2tMxLp

http://pastebin.com/MMwQhrds

http://twitpic.com/6hxbro

https://twitter.com/REALNIGNOG0003

https://twitter.com/REALBROTHER0003

https://twitter.com/REALBRONY0003

https://twitter.com/REALSPOOK0003

https://twitter.com/Realsister0003



http://whosarat.com/aboutus.php

http://whoisthesnitch.com/



http://www.zpub.com/notes/fbi-shame.html

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=613521

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/counterterrorism-glossary

http://www.snitching.org/

http://november.org/Snitch/

http://www.shouselaw.com/informants.html

Feds and the Million Mask March

There is much noise being made about the planned Million Mask March scheduled for November 5, 2013-- especially the one that will take place in D.C.  Some of this noise appears to be originating from the wikileaks poet a.k.a. the polymath poet a.k.a. anonomobile a.k.a. Christine [Ann or Herron or neither] Sands a.k.a. who the frig knows.  So what is the problem?



Several: 

Anonymous is supposed to be well, anonymous.  It's in the name.   
     * * * * * Anonymous * * * * * 

Anonymous does not have leaders or spokespersons or membership lists.

Anonymous has been infiltrated by Feds and Informants, just like any other movement of the people.

The March in D.C. appears to have been billed by said poet with a phrase similar to "Overthrow the Government!"




So there is this woman whose image is posted on at least one of her Twitter profiles as well as across the web, an easily identifiable blonde woman claiming to be a sort of benefactor to Anonymous-- UNASKED she bought and registered some percentage of the Million Mask March domains currently in use for the March-- who has also now bought and decorated a massive R.V. and labeled it the Anonomobile.  She claims to be a poet.  And yes, she does write poetry.  Whether or not the poetry is worth reading is outside of the scope of this blog post.  What is clear to me is that Chris Sands is listed on Linked-In-- along with the same picture that graces at least one of her Twitter profiles-- as working or having worked for the feds, specifically at the Department of Justice through the year 2012.  Hello Anonymous, can you spell trap?

Yes, I've said it.  Trap.  I fear that the Million Mask March in D.C. will very much function as a trap.  Christine Sands will be on hand with her handy dandy not so anonymous Anonomobile.  I suspect that a host of her friends the Feds, Fed Informants, and others will also be there in D.C. on November 5, 2013.  To wit, there is probably a heavy presence of Feds and informants any day on the calendar, D.C. being what it is.

There is more stuff in the references.  Intimations and accusations which I've listed for those who want more.  Because I am not the only one sounding the alarm.  I don't know how many people are doing so.  I do know that a few of the Twitter nimjeh [accepted plural of ninjahs-- the accounts there that are usually marked by @my________ninjah -- fill in the blank--- go look in the Twitter search engine for ninjah and you will find them] have also been tweeting about the Million Mask March in D.C. being somewhat of a trap.  As the nimjeh are quick to remind us, None of us alone is as stupid as all of us together.  A few of the nimjeh have advocated for a return to the black bandanna.  I agree.  The icon currently in use-- the Guy Fawkes mask-- is "owned" by Warner Brothers.  Anonymous will not die because people are deciding that the use of a black bandanna is safer than using a mask.  But I digress.

Those Anons who are attending the Million Mask March-- specifically the one in D.C.-- I beg of you to please don't be stupid.  I know the oldfags know all of the things that I am about to list.  Some of the newblood may not.  Here are suggestions culled from Twitter and various other sources-- and my own experiences with protests, sit-ins, and demonstrations-- in no particular order:



Way before the March

~ Advertise the Million Mask March on social media.  Do not advertise your participation in it.  Don't be a leaderfag or a famefag or an egofag.  There are too many of those as it is.

~ Avoid hooking up in social media with known or suspected informants or feds beyond brief interactions, if that.

~ Do NOT publish your travel plans on social media.  Ever.

~ If your nics are easily connected to your wallet info, get new nics.  Duh.

~ Obtain a map of D.C. and mark the March route on it.  Start memorizing street names.

~ Begin to learn bus routes and subway routes so you can get back wherever it is that you are staying from any point on the March route.

~ If you've never participated in a protest or direct action of any sort before, visit various Anonymous and survival sites on the web.  Study and learn how to keep yourself safe.

~ If you are on FB [a.k.a. FaceBook, FedBook (the site that is actually named FedBook is not the one I am talking about), FailBook, FakeBook...] and you gave them your wallet info when you signed up and you used your real name and you don't use it behind chained vpns, proxies etc., ask yourself why.




What to bring

~ Maps of D.C.  A map of the march route.

~ Scripts from the doctor's office for any prescription drugs that you are taking with you.

~ Your prescription drugs in their original prescription drug bottles.  Carry doses required for the number of days away plus two.  In other words, if you will be away from home for three days then take three days worth of prescription drugs plus dosages for two extra days.  [Cops have seized prescription drugs from people for testing at a lab].

~ A mini-first aid kid or first aid supplies that are not heavy and not bulky that you can fit into your pockets and retrieve during the March if you need them.

~ A bandanna dipped in MOM [or vinegar or lemon depending upon what advice you accept on this] stored in a tin.  Instructions exist on the web for making such an anti teargas/pepper spray kit.

~ The memorized phone number of an attorney that you have contacted ahead of time.  The memorized phone numbers of any people that you will be contacting during your time away from home.

~ A throwaway cell phone that you will be using during your entire trip.  Or, a cell phone with a camera that is fairly "clean" or new i.e. not containing any photos or contact info for other anons.


What not to bring

~ Illegal drugs.  Any weapons or items that can be construed to be weapons.
 
~ Expired prescription bottles, prescription bottles that have someone else's name on them.

~ Your cell phone that you use daily with your contact list in it.

~ Your laptop.

~ Your expensive camera with or without incriminating photos stored on it.

~ Your thirst for social recognition via the media.



Just before the March itself in D.C.

~ A good night's sleep so you have your wits about you.

~ Study maps of D.C. and familiarize yourself with the route before the morning of the march.  Memorize the location of alleys and side streets so that you can cut away if you have to.  Then leave the actual maps at the place you are staying.

~ Make sure that your mask does not impede your peripheral vision. 

~ Stuff your pockets with your first aid items, including your bandanna soaked in MOM stored in a tin.




During the March itself

~ Be alert.  You are not going on a casual stroll or a picnic.  You are not a tourist.  Pay attention to what is going on around you and over you. 

~ Identify the Anon Medics around you in the March.  [And know that police action may focus on the medics first.]  The medics are valuable to you if you get hurt or sick during the March.

~ Use your brain.  If something seems suspect to you, pay attention.  Do not let your guard down.  Do not give in to the herd mentality that springs out of being with a mass of enthusiastic people.

~ Do not drink alcohol or get high before or during the March.  You do not want to make it easier for the police to arrest you.

~ Kettling.  If you do not know what that is, look it up.  Be prepared to break away from the crowd for your own safety if you have to.

~ The friendly person in the mask marching next to you may not be your friend.  That stranger may be another Anon.  He or she may be a cop working undercover, a Fed or fed informant, a professional provocateur, an agitator, a crazy person.  Trust no one, not even me.

~ Do not talk about your great hacking skills, what illegal activities you participated in as an Anonymous or otherwise, your use of drugs-- or anything else that you do not want the feds or law enforcement to know-- to the friendly stranger next to you at the March.  Bragging can be dangerous.

~ Stay away from and OUT OF the Anonomobile.  I should not have to even say that.




Contact with Law Enforcement Agencies during the March
 
~ If an agent of the police asks you to "step over here" or similar words, consider yourself as being under arrest even if they say you aren't and that they are only investigating something.

~ Keep your hands in plain sight and out of your pockets.  Do not make any sudden moves.  You do not want to do anything that an officer of the law can conceive of as a threat to his or her own personal safety.  Move slowly and state what you are doing before you do it.  Follow directions.

~ Ask politely if you are under arrest.  If you aren't under arrest or being detained for investigation, leave.  Immediately.

~ "You fucking pig" may be protected speech but endeavor to refrain from name-calling, fighting, and running away from the police.

~ Beyond personal identification, lawyer up.  Tell them you cannot or will not speak to them about [whatever it is they say they are investigating] without a lawyer.

~ The police are legally allowed to lie to you.  Remember that.  Anything they claim to you may not be the truth.  They will lie to you in order to get information out of you.

~ The police cannot determine how you will be treated in a court of law.  They may say things like, "This will go easier on you if you tell."  Again, lawyer up.  Offer them very little if any information beyond your name, address, and telephone number.

~ If your cell phone is seized, the cops will hunt through it for your contacts.  This is why it is better to have a pay as you go throwaway phone with you in D.C. or a cell phone that you do not mind "losing" to the cops forever or for a very long time rather than one that has the names and numbers of every Anon you know on it that you depend upon to make your life manageable.

~ If you find yourself in a holding pen or a jail cell, resist the temptation to talk with the other detainees or inmates about any suspect or illegal activities, your personal observations of the cops or guards, or anything else that might incriminate you in a court of law or among the guards.



The best advice that I ever received was from a judge.  I was attending a session of a Drug Court being held just before the graduation party of several friends who had been drug court participants.  A not so fortunate participant had been caught driving without a license.  The judge asked him why he was doing this.  What followed was a long list of excuses.  The judge was fairly angry and in a raised voice, emphatically stated to the hapless young man, "You gotta have a Plan B!"

~ You gotta have a Plan B.

radical sapphoq

Disclaimer:  I am not an attorney.  This blog post shall not be construed of as legal advice.  I am not responsible for your actions.  Names of informants, suspected informants and other musings listed in the blog post or under the references are not to be treated as evidence, facts, proof, or permission to take illegal actions upon said persons or their network of friends and relatives.  Anecdotes are not evidence, period.  Taking the law into your own hands will probably result in massive butthurt.  Any information that I provided is just that.  I made this blog post in the spirit of wanting new blood to think about safety.  This blog post is not an exhaustive list of how to conduct yourself while in a large assembly of people.  As usual, you are encouraged to conduct your own research and to draw your own conclusions.  Please do so. 


References:

a highly incomplete list of federal informants and suspected federal informants in ref to the Million Mask March
http://pastebin.com/WgZG5YAj
http://pastebin.com/2AhGYTwT
http://evanbatterton1.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/man_groove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhard_Pfeiffer
http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-operation-last-resort-hoax/
http://pastebin.com/9aB9vB62
http://lulzraft.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-grand-deception-x-sect-exposed.html


what to do if you are being detained for investigation or are under arrest
https://www.aclu.org/
https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/right-protest
https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/protestors-rights
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal/bustcardtext.html
http://www.aclu-il.org/protesting-know-your-rights/
http://www.aclu-il.org/aclu-report-what-should-i-do-if-police-stop-or-arrest-me/

http://www.criminalinfonetwork.com/arrested/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/tech/social-media/online-oversharing-arrests/index.html
http://michaelbluejay.com/misc/arrest.html


a few attorneys on twitter who are sympathetic to Anonymous and to protests
http://www.scoop.it/t/anonyme/p/2880822074/hacktivist-s-advocate-meet-the-lawyer-who-defends-anonymous
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/hacktivists-advocate-meet-the-lawyer-who-defends-anonymous/263202/
http://istanleycohen.org/

tiny bits of history of Anonymous and the culture of Anonymous and tidbits of info-- I cannot vouch for accuracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/from-anonymous-to-shuttered-websites-the-evolution-of-online-protest-1.1134948
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/pieces/anonymous-lulz-collective-action
https://whyweprotest.net/community/
http://anonnews.org/
http://www.4chan.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Dramatica
https://encyclopediadramatica.es/Main_Page
http://cyberguerrilla.org/
https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/
https://odinn.cyberguerrilla.org/
https://lilithlela.cyberguerrilla.org/
https://anonymissexpress.cyberguerrilla.org/
http://anoninsiders.net/guides/index.html
http://lifehacker.com/5854203/how-to-create-a-fake-identity-and-stay-anonymous-online
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6747/does-a-vinegar-bandana-help-against-tear-gas
http://www.donrearic.com/bandana1.html
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-kettling.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Danger-During-Civil-Unrest
http://www.wikihow.com/Deal-With-Riot-Control-Agents
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Getting-Shot-by-a-Police-Officer
http://www.mookychick.co.uk/feminism/activism/protest-march-safety.php

http://www.alternet.org/activism/8-ways-stay-safe-occupy-wall-streets-one-year-anniversary-protests
      (targeted for Occupy protest in NYC)

Twitter Rolls Over Beethoven Mini Surf Up

Well, well.  Larry the Twitter bird was forced to tweet the I.P. addys of Guido Fawkes, @p0isAn0n, @OccupyBoston and all of the folks who #BostonPD during a short week in December.  One wonders how many folks retweeted anything identified as #BostonPD.  Kudos to the ACLU for speaking out though.

On top of that, a twit who stated that he wanted to have S&M sex with a woman named Michele [why oh why?] will have his identity turned over to a grand jury.  If he had merely stated his intense infatuation with her and that he wanted to marry her, would his 140 word claim to fame had been adjudged a possible threat?

Lamar Smith's "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act" is up, just biding its' wait time until the House of Rep can get to it.  And yes, it is just another way for the Government et. al. to spy on Joe Average or Not-So-Average Citizen.  Much as demanding the e-mails of the #BostonPD hash tag users who were either actively participating or retweeting a conversation under the guise of looking for possible criminals, this Act is just another witch hunt without any specific suspects being targeted.

In the interest of convenience to mili police departments everywhere and perhaps also to giant advertising corporations, Facebook's timeline will be mandatory by this time next week.  No opting out of that one.  Six days remain to purge anything that you don't want included on your timeline.  I sneer at Facebook.

Two Louisiana State University students weigh in on Anonymous-- one pro and one con-- for their school e-pub Isureveille.  Both students can be followed on Twitter of course. [ @TDR_dscheu and @TDR_ccrockett ]. 
     I don't think Anonymous deserves the National Security Agency designation of "terrorist organization."  Furthermore, the fact that a script kiddie can help bring down a website via a tool that he or she can download from the internet (without knowing a bit of code) is total FAIL on the parts of the folks who are in charge of making sure their company websites are not prone to attacks.  The problem is security vs. privacy.  Even large brand name companies have been found to be lacking in following common sense ideas.  Paypal's usage of plain text to store their customers' passwords springs easily to mind.  And I am supposed to trust that my ISP, Google +, and other sites are good at keeping my wallet info secure?  Uh, no.  That is ridiculous.   
     Comparing the hacking of websites to burning down a building is a bit of a stretch.  I find that to be a piss poor analogy.  Not too many revolutions are accomplished without bloodshed and destruction.  Many people have died for freedom.  And many more will.  I am willing to die for freedom.  Freedom is under attack these days.  The freedom that is under attack is much bigger than the sharing of information being circumscribed.  We need information in order to create change.  The status quo is against the free flow of information because the status quo wants to remain the status quo.  Business as usual is not okay.  Legislating morality: shoving the morality of corporations such as the Roman Catholic Church down the throats of their secular employees is not okay.  Corporate "personhood" should never trump an individual's conscience.  We the people need to know what the higher ups are doing.  Business as usual allows government figures to wiretap offices for their own purposes.  Business as usual does not want us to know about it.
     Over protests by business as usual, the Pentagon papers were published in book form designed for consumption by the general public.  Wikileaks gives anyone with access to a computer the ability to read what some governments and agencies would rather us not see.  Anonymous is a meme that points out the flaws in a system that very often divides people up on the bases of who they are and who they know and how much of the local currency they have been able to amass.

Against this backdrop of fouled tweets and bad legislation hiding under the coats of "oh but we must save the children" and the sharing of the poisoned NSA sacrificial well water, there arises songs for freedom as beautiful as those composed by Beethoven and his pet starling.  My own atheist non-soul was immediately won over by The Church of Reality website.  How refreshing it was for me to find this bastion of wisdom in the midst of other internet clutter!  The bird of freedom flown by the Church of Reality does not bear the first name of Larry.

This morning I also found the EFF's https add-on for Firefox and a list from 2007 of hosting sites that will stand by freedom of speech.  Although the list is old, I do plan to go through it with the idea toward finding a place to mirror my blogs and to move my blogs should that ever become necessary.

radical sapphoq says: radical sapphoq already said it today.  Scroll up.

Today is March 2, 2012.  Don't forget to participate in Black March:

Don't buy any books, cds, movies during the month of March.  Send a clear message to Big Hollywood that we resist any attempts to control where we go and what we do here on the Internet. 

Kudos to my s.o. who has decided to join the boycott in spite of not knowing what I am talking about most of the time.  Love ya, sweetie.

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2012/02/29/tweeter-cant-stay-anonymous-judge-rules/?gta=commentlistpos#commentlistpos

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220302twitter_surrenders_data_in_hack_probe/

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224668/Advocacy_group_takes_aim_at_anti_porn_bill_requiring_ISP_data_retention?taxonomyId=144

http://www.lsureveille.com/news/facebook-timeline-to-become-mandatory-1.2693873

http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/head-to-head-civil-disobedience-is-not-an-act-of-terrorism-1.2709146

http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/head-to-head-anonymous-is-evil-and-threatens-freedom-1.2709190

http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/welcome_home/

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

http://whdb.com/2007/free-speech-hosting-11-web-hosts-that-wont-dump-you-at-the-first-sign-of-controversy/

The Stratfor Insecurity Fence

I made this picture of an odd "fence" myself using a digital art program.  It is copyleft, although I don't know why anyone would want to use it.  ~radical sapphoq











Corporate giant and private elite spy company Stratfor faces some embarassment due to the leak of a whole lot of e-mails.  This stuff is being published on wikileaks and the first installment can be found here at http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releases.html for those who are interested. 

Some other stuff was allegedly taken also:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/25/anonymous-security-thinktank-stratfor  .  Credit card numbers and bank transfers appear to have been used to gift charities with donations, monies which the charities will have to return. 

http://moneylife.in/article/anonymously-yours-wikileaks-latest-expose-is-the-next-step-in-cyber-war/23930.html 
Although it was initially reported that George Friedman stepped down from his post as CEO of Stratfor, he denied having done so.

Stratfor claims via this vid that at least one e-mail is not by George Friedman as it purports to be:






A tiny bit of damage control there perhaps on January 6, 2012 (the date the vid was uploaded to U-tube) by Fred Burton.  Sorry buddy, I just don't believe you.


radical sapphoq says: In the outrage by suits against Anonymous, there is something missing in the outrage.  Stratfor is a private intelligence company that apparently did not encrypt its' e-mails.  And that is FAIL.
The insecure and careless storage of personal information held on to by companies and organizations including but not limited to the private sector and the U.S. government is precisely one of the many reasons why I am for taking security measures when skating around on the internet. 
Stratfor by reports is a smallish company employing approximately forty people in a downtown Austin office.  Could they not have been more careless about this?

    To Stratfor: not encrypting your e-mails: FAIL.  Casual reference to the idea that Julian Assage needs to be waterboarded: FAIL.  Cursing in company e-mails: FAIL.  Crying about the "bad hackers": FAIL.  

We need Anonymous and Wikileaks today more than ever in the fight for justice and freedom.
I recommend following the anonops blogspot and bsnorrell. 


http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/02/wikileaks-publishes-global-intelligence.html

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/now-wikileaks-releasing-stratfor-global.html

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/31196-massive-leak-reveals-criminality-paranoia-among-corporate-titans.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46555168/ns/us_news-security/

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232601656

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2012/02/stratfor-files-flawed-global-intelligence-rotten-root-war

More Copyleft Tags to Support Anonymous

I took the pictures and I created these tags.  I made these for anyone to download to their computers and alter, mod, use, distribute as they wish.  These three tags are copyleft folks.  ~radical sapphoq

Why Anonymous is Better than the N.S.A. and Other Folks who Throw Around the Word "Cyber-Terrorists":

1.  Because Anonymous stands up for freedom on the Internet and Net Neutrality.

2.  Because Anonymous does better at news reporting than many of the mainstream news organizations ever did.

3. Because Anonymous knows the difference between piracy and sharing.

4.  Because Anonymous knows that sharing is good.

5.  Because Anonymous supports open software and innovation.

6. Because Anonymous writes tight sexy code.

7.  Because Anonymous is hip to the necessity of privacy in our own lives.

8.  Because corrupt governments fear Anonymous.

9. Because Anonymous cannot be bought, unlike presidents or politicians.

10.  Because Anonymous does not sell out.

11. Because Anonymous has never tried to convert anyone to any religion.

12. Because Anonymous does not demand to own anyone's money, thoughts, or brain.

13.  Because Anonymous continues to dare to take on Scientology and all the evil associated therein.

14.  Because Anonymous is full of win.

15.  Because Anonymous does not forgive.

16.  Because Anonymous does not forget.

17.  Because we are all Anonymous.





 

radical sapphoq says: I support Anonymous.



The ACTA text, Richard Stallman, Anonymous, and Finally: Just Who is the IIPA

I made it and it's copyleft.  So stay out of my blog you copyrighting police.  ~sap


Here at  http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/acta/Final-ACTA-text-following-legal-verification.pdf  you will find the text of ACTA--
at least until it is taken down or someone hacks it down.

Richard Stallman, one of my heros, has done an excellent interview here at  http://rt.com/usa/news/us-copyright-law-is-far-too-strict-gnu-founder/   For sure, the interview was done in 2009.  Chilling how that interview could have easily been done today rather than back then.





Remember folks, as Richard Stallman says, "Piracy is attacking ships... but sharing with your neighbour is good."  Rock on Richard Stallman. 

And rock on Anonymous for calling this issue to our collective attention.

Some Anonymous folks hacked into the CIA website last Friday
and found six servers full of porn.  Here is the video from R.T.
http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-attack-video-cia-219/
purported made by one member identifying as an Anonymous
[at least until if/when I am forced to take it down]:





Sounds like the kiddie porn was an incidental finding.



Here is the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) 2012 report named special 301: http://www.iipa.com/2012_SPEC301_TOC.htm . The countries named for their varying watchlists are bad m'kay because they are not respectful of copyrighted stuff on the internet.  Even some of the land-locked countries have been called havens for pirates.  From that link, one gets to a page where one can click on older reports or on the cover of this year's report. 
If one clicks on an offending country in this year's report, one may find such gems of wisdom as:
(paraphrased) Since the government in 2011 did not revise the laws to reflect what we want them to do regarding the problem of unlicensed sharing, we will create with them an unlicensed sharing task force...
  We will also get some State IP cells going, create some IP attorneys, get the militia to do more seizures, and help the government to see the wisdom in giving tax breaks to those companies going along with our program...
  And furthermore, we want the militia to want to do more seizures and arrests and stuff like that.  Because unauthorized sharing is bad.

Or: (paraphrased) The bad stores with the knock-offs of stuff for sale can still be found near the airport.  This country is a U.S.A. trade beneficiary and must be stopped.  Because unauthorized sharing is bad.

Clicking on a link toward the bottom right of the International Intellectual Property Alliance http://www.iipa.com/ homepage for their comment on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement on November 10, 2010 will bring you to this:
http://www.iipa.com/pdf/IIPAWrittenStatementonProposedTransPacFTA012510.pdf
[because the IIPA just had to get their copyright policing teeth into that also, i.m.o.].  On the first page of that document, Michael Schlesinger explains that the following organizations are members of the IIPA:

Association of American Publishers (AAP),

Business Software Alliance (BSA),

Entertainment Software Association (ESA),

Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA),

Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA),

National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA),

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

One thing that caught my eye was the first "I" in the IIPA name.  The first "I" allegedly stands for "International."  In this context, the word "International" denotes the organization's interest in copyright matters all over the globe and not that they are an international organization with members who are world-wide.
Under the "About IIPA" tab on their homepage, again we are confronted with the seven member organizations of the IIPA and then we are fed a juicy tidbit.  The IIPA claims those seven member organizations represent over 1,900 United Statesian companies involved in all the things that the IIPA does not want unauthorized sharing to happen in. 
From what I read, only the Independent Film &aTelevision Alliance has member companies not based in the United States.  Approximately forty of their one hundred sixty member companies are based in countries other than the United States.

Further investigation under the About IIPA home tab reveals a current list of IIPA attorneys include only these four: Michael Schlesinger,

Eric J. Schwartz,

Steve Metalitz,

Amanda Wilson Denton

http://www.iipa.com/personnel.html

Their contact info is listed under About IIPA, subtab Contact IIPA.

Their e-mails are also listed on their pdf bios which can be reached under About IIPA subtab IIPA Personnel.

Under the News & Resources tab, I found a nifty little chart with very small print noting some percentage of the files and comments that the IIPA has submitted to various official bodies, along with the note that April 23, 2011 was "World IP Day."  Om January 9, 2012, [the top of the chart as the list is in reverse chronological order] the IIPA provides an interesting document which quotes Eric Schwartz as an IIPA attorney speaking against Ukraine continuing to have GSP eligibility (Generalized System of Preference in reference to free trade-- http://www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/trade-development/preference-programs/generalized-system-preference-gsp ).  The aforementioned Michael Schlesinger says the same about Indonesia.  (Michael Schlesinger is also identified as an IIPA attorney).  In other words, unless the Ukraine and Indonesia do what the IIPA wants them to do, they may lose their GSP status and benefits inherent in that status.  Also under the News & Resources tab, under the subtab of Resources, one finds a list of a whole bunch of websites which have more information and which the dedicated researcher will investigate.  I will leave that undone here in this blog for now, although I may come back to that at a future time if necessary.

The Copyright & Trade Issues tab: http://www.iipa.com/copyrighttrade_issues.html reveals that Special 301 was created by Congress in 1988.  Special 301 allows countries to be placed on either a Watch List or a Priority Watch List.  Presence on the list does not denote immediate trade sanctions against those countries for not protecting Intellectual Property Copyright (i.e. for allowing Unauthorized Sharing).  Special 301 also allows for placement on the list of "Priority Foreign Countries." Those countries can face trade sanctions immediately after an investigation is completed.  There are seven subtabs listed under the Copyright & Trade Issues tab.

Bypassing those to the interested investigator, we continue on to the next tab titled Country Reports at http://www.iipa.com/countryreports.html .  Here is another nifty chart with very small print which lists a whole bunch of countries and what the IIPA has done back through 1997.

Back at the homepage, clicking on the second box in the second column labeled "An overview of IIPA's 27 years (1984-2011)
http://www.iipa.com/pdf/2011IIPAAboutUs.PDF
gives a sampling of what the IIPA has done.

Searching further into the IIPA using a search engine revealed that Eric A. Smith co-founded the IIPA.  Here is a press release noting the addition of a senior attorney and two other attorneys to the Washington D.C. office of Greenberg Traurig, a truly international law firm that specializes in international copyright things: http://www.gtlaw.com/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressReleases?find=83555&printver=true

Dr Mihály Ficsor lives in Budapest, Hungary according to an older IIPA pdf file on him at http://www.iipa.com/pdf/IIPA_MF_bio_080204.pdf

is a world-renown expert on copyright stuff and serves as a consultant to the IIPA (or did at the time that the pdf was written). A buddy of his is against excessive copyrighting and the blog post which mentions the Doctor is at: http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2010/11/dont-touch-my-digital-junk-tpms-bill-c.html

radical sapphoq says: The spokespeople for the IIPA come in the form of four very powerful expert attorneys.  The IIPA is not some pansy fly-by-night whiners about copyright law.  The IIPA has clout as given to them by Congress in 1984.  Folks actively engaged in fighting the IIPA and the seven organizations under the IIPA umbrella (which include the MPAA and RIAA) have some very tough, tough work ahead of them.  This is precisely why I support Anonymous and I love Anonymous for fighting SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and the forthcoming PICPA. 
     A battle must be fought on all levels.  Now that I know a bit more about the IIPA, I understand the enormity of what's happening with the Internet a bit better.
     I don't know know what will happen in the future.  I do know that doing nothing does not help the fear.  Now is the time to be brave and to act for a free Internet.
     It will be a sad day if that battle is lost.  But if it does, I plan to help out with building an alternate internet.  Even if I have to move out of the country to do it.

Copyleft tags: I Support Anonymous: Use as you will

I made them myself from photographs I took.  You get to use them at will as you wish.  copyleft. play nice, no hotlinking.
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