Most activism groups aren’t really screening for membership.
Usually it’s, “you want to join ? Cool, I’ll add you.”
Edit: Just read the article. They went out of their way to try to make it sound like this group was up to something other than legally show up to immigrant court and keep watch for heinous police behavior.
The memo did not provide any further details about the individual or their alleged past calls for violence and offered no specifics or evidence to explain why the FBI characterized them as “anarchist violent extremists”. The courtwatch efforts have been non-violent, and the FBI did not respond to an inquiry seeking specific examples of violence and did not answer questions about whether law enforcement had ongoing access to the private group.
We are starting to learn that the world with computers and the Internet is like the world without them, except with them.
There were those medieval German secret courts with their secret judgements and assassins fulfilling those. And there were various masonic and such groups. And even secret societies of revolutionaries.
All they were was crime groups, interest clubs and elites pastime, in the end.
But it all started really working with mass politics. Because secrecy of a group requiring communication and adding new members can’t be preserved, and once it’s broken, it’s just a few people challenging the power. While a crowd with torches (because nobody gives days off for demonstrations at daytime ; yes, torches were not a Nazi thing, they were common for all “worker” parties) doesn’t need secrecy - its idea’s survival is guaranteed not by secrecy, but by inability to stop its spread.
Oh so it’s an activist group that’s doing valuable work but has no need to background check for security. Makes sense, basically every activist or political group is on signal these days.
Most activism groups aren’t really screening for membership.
Usually it’s, “you want to join ? Cool, I’ll add you.”
Edit: Just read the article. They went out of their way to try to make it sound like this group was up to something other than legally show up to immigrant court and keep watch for heinous police behavior.
We are starting to learn that the world with computers and the Internet is like the world without them, except with them.
There were those medieval German secret courts with their secret judgements and assassins fulfilling those. And there were various masonic and such groups. And even secret societies of revolutionaries.
All they were was crime groups, interest clubs and elites pastime, in the end.
But it all started really working with mass politics. Because secrecy of a group requiring communication and adding new members can’t be preserved, and once it’s broken, it’s just a few people challenging the power. While a crowd with torches (because nobody gives days off for demonstrations at daytime ; yes, torches were not a Nazi thing, they were common for all “worker” parties) doesn’t need secrecy - its idea’s survival is guaranteed not by secrecy, but by inability to stop its spread.
Oh so it’s an activist group that’s doing valuable work but has no need to background check for security. Makes sense, basically every activist or political group is on signal these days.