-- At 02:10 AM 4/4/2001 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
The one thing you DON'T want to do is encourage individual vigilantism "unmasking" and unfounded paranoia.
Hostile infiltration is common and highly effective within radical political groups, and is routinely used not only by the government against radical groups but also by radical groups with conflicting agendas against each other. "Unmasking" is always disruptive, because one can never distinguish between an infiltrator or provocateur, and someone who is just naturally a stupid asshole. However neither should we naively believe that everyone who proclaims he shares our values, actually does share our values. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 7F5sYOSacEBhYOthmMajqjrXbEFeayL9k0nvy2Op 4ja6CgWweSZyFGYYZywMhffV8A6cZv0mLbhGTF1pE