The third and final idiot who cut phone service to thousands in Saint Paul last year has been sentenced to ninety days in jail for his part in the two vandalisms. A number of very interesting details came out in court, apparently - including both the scale of Levi Glennie’s believed activities, and - unfortunately - his involvement with the Urban Exploration subculture in Minnesota.
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An article in the local free newspaper City Pages details some pretty inept attempts by the local Joint Terrorism Task Force, or JTTF, to recruit a college student into becoming a “mole” in the local activist community. I’m not sure this is really newsworthy - except inasmuch as it suggests the JTTF are desperate; assuming - as seems reasonable - that it’s RNC-related, trying to “infiltrate” a group of professional paranoids in less than four months seems a plan doomed to quick failure. That said, I think there are two interesting aspects of the whole thing that deserve examination…
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