FirstQuaker
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic Well, we have one around here who vanished on election day, only to reappear the very same day Obama announced he was running for re-election in '12, but that's more the pattern of a paid party agitator/spokeshole, than anything else... Zonie, the rule of thumb I was taught, was that in a room full of revolutionaries, the most militantly outspoken one is probably the undercover cop. Yes, I've heard that, too. Of course, the internet is global, so I wonder if there are agents from other governments doing the same thing. Pretty often. They are breaking the foreign agent law if they post on US websites to engage in political activities for or in the interests of a foreign principal, or act in a public relations capacity for a foreign principal, without revealing who they are as it is. quote:
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was enacted in 1938. FARA is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities. Disclosure of the required information facilitates evaluation by the government and the American people of the statements and activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents. The FARA Registration Unit of the Counterespionage Section (CES) in the National Security Division (NSD) is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Act. FARA Canada is discussing a similar type of law. Not that the DOJ ever enforce this any more then they would this proposed thing, unless they wanted to go after a certain person or organization. Not that the US isn't as guilty of it as anyone. In addition to the CIA, the US military released a request for bid for software that can let them control up to 500 accounts for each user on websites.
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