Brandon Darby: A Common Ground Mole?

[zelemont]

deluded sociopath.

[chewbaca1989]

Seems like he might have gone John Stossel and an epiphany.

[brandonjsmith1994]

Interesting find.

[jointhemodernworld]

what a piece of shit

[FriedrichKling]

Brandon Darby is the essence of SCUM. This egotistical dirtbag entrapped two men and encouraged them to participate in actions they would have not have normally considered.

[mediamadman747]

I'd like to know what the FBI had on Darby to make him turn informant.

[BufordStone]

The FBI jerked him off a bit and he became a rat.

[uszoninyc]

There is something...mentally 'off' about him, and it comes across: his inability to make eye contact, his unthought out proclamations.

IF this person was unknown, you wouldn't question: 'this man is NOT playing with a full deck.'

The problem comes when people - look for 'others' they think might have more 'knowledge' then they, and FULLY put their trust in someone like this.

Whether it's him, or a religious lunatic, it's the ramblings of a paranoiac. And a DANGEROUS one.

[watermelon37100]

Darby is a scumbag who destroyed the lives of two young men.He may have had some good intentions during his days after Katrina, but his involvement as an informant in the days during the National Convention is disgusting.

[mlaauli]

Darby is just a wanna-be hero. He manipulates teenage boys with his lies. Just a fag with visions of grandeur.

[wildgift2]

Some of the comments here say Darby is a hero for stopping dangerous people - but there are tens of thousands of people who are anarchists (or call themselves such) and don't ever do anything violent. For every violent anarchist, there are a hundred who have been clubbed, harassed, or stalked by the police. And when you look through history, a lot of undercovers and informants have been very close to people who did some vandalism. Coincidence?

[Daddyo930]

It would seem that the cointelpro operation has only been ramped up. Nowadays, there are so many on 911 truth sites that it's hard not to believe that the government hired these people to do exactly what it is they do on 911 truth sites. Beat the hell out of the truth, night and day.

[klorel400]

you know something i was there and the F.B.I. tried a couple times asking me things buying me things but you know there was absolutly nothing terrible to be asked when i had nothing to say about anything except wanna help me chop potatoes lol.

[Rachael8590]

It's very telling of you pathetic LOSERS to think that the hero in this story is the bad guy. Everyone makes mistakes. We are not defined by our mistakes, but how we react to them and the life journey we create despite of them.

[leestauf]

Anarchists are enemies of the American people and must hide like cockroaches because that is what they are. Come out into the open cowards. Mindless nonthinking puppets. You are criminals being used by other criminals whose heroes are people like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim, Che and Castro. Hide, like the frightened insects that you are or be drawn and quartered.

[FluxRostrum]

@leestauf tell that to the people that got their house gutted for free when the government was trying to keep them out of town so that looters and mold could consume the home.  ... I suspect that you are a mindless nonthinking Alex Jones worshiper.

[SynapticTransmission]

@leestauf You're obviously not very bright.

[FriedrichKling]

@leestauf No, you have it ass backwards. It's mindless dirtbags like you who are our enemy.

[darfurwarrior]

Low life Marxist Liberal Nazi gutter trash never cease to amaze me.

The fact that you vermin support the wholesale murders of innocent people justifies your names being at the top of the FEDS Execution Lists. Are you so brain-dead as to not know that the first to be executed by dictatorial regimes in history, are those that aid them in their overthrow. Once in power you become their greatest threats. The fact that you would stoop so low, as to betray and murder innocent people is why. Wake-up!

[darfurwarrior]

Low life Marxist Liberal Nazi gutter trash never cease to amaze me.

The fact that you vermin support the wholesale murders of innocent people justifies your names being at the top of the FEDS Execution Lists. Are you so brain-dead as to not know that the first to be executed by dictatorial regimes in history, are those that aid them in their overthrow. Once in power you become their greatest threats. The fact that you would stoop so low, as to betray and murder innocent people is why. Wake-up!

[WorkingAgainstWalls]

So you keep Palestinians Locked up, Starved, Bombed, Robbed and on the Verge of Death in Concentration Camp Gaza & Concentration Camp West Bank, while you build Illegal Settlements BREAKING ALL International Laws, UN Laws, World Court Laws and Founding Laws, while making sure to carry out the Palestinian Holocaust and Genocide while putting out Endless PR Stunts, Propaganda, Lies and Disinformation with Media control. Israel actively hides/defends War Criminals causing Mass-Eradication.

[christophermoneill]

And here come the "true anarchists" to bash someone who helped other people...calling someone a snitch from the comfort and safety of your own homesis easy to do. Go to your local anarchist book store/coffee shop,shave half of your head, dress like a fucking idiot and call yourself an anarchist. Hypocrites.

[steved8878]

In the description of Brandon Darby, the "This American Life" narrator says "he has some muscle." Where?

[Hannibal222]

I heard about Darby in This American Life. LOL @ the whining children who want to see the world burn.

[JLoveBomb]

The world already burns.

[Jack6886]

The world would be a far better place if there were more Brandon Darbys

[iss88]

Wow, there are really let wing idiots out there who would blame the guy who STOPPED people from being burned alive for their political beliefs? The guy is a hero for helping in New Orleans, and for stopping terrorist idiots from killing people.

[builden]

darby may have been highly involved at cg at the beginnng, but it was lisa, who held the fort down

[8730125870387]

With friends like Brandon Darby who needs cointelpro?

[RaisetheFistNetwork]

Brandon Darby is not a "revolutionary". He is an FBI informant snitch. His actions attribute the ongoing history of political repression by the FBI which has framed, killed and locked up many of our brothers and sisters. So don't use the word revolution, which my people have spilled their blood for. There is absolutely no compromise with informants. If you think otherwise then you have no place in revolutionary movements.

[paul8kangas]

Anyone who calls people a snitch is probably an fbi agent.

Our revolution must be a mass movement, peaceful & huge.

[RaisetheFistNetwork]

Darby is a PIG SNITCH and anybody who attempts to minimize his actions by encouraging sympathy and understanding for his choices poses just as much danger to the community as Darby did.

[paul8kangas]

If you have a friend who is planning to kill someone,

would you go & report her/him to the police?

Please say yes. You would have to be insane to not report

killers to the police.

[TwoSet]

someone is going to go crazy and take him out.. he should disappear.. heard in a interview he had a child and then did the FBI side.. not much care for his family... now a bunch of left wing nuts are going to hunt him or at the least harrass his family

[Treeofwysdm]

Sundar you're right. Darby did not become involved with the FBI until after his work with CG. This American Life just did a really interesting, unbiased piece on him. I know many people have very strong feelings one way or the other about Darby, however I would suggest that folks not be too quick to judge until they've listened to the TAL piece. It certainly made me think twice about my own judgments of him.

[RaisetheFistNetwork]

The only judgment that an FBI informant deserves is one as the pig snitch rat they've always been. There's no such thing as a revolutionary turned informant. If you became an informant then you were ALWAYS a sell-out rat from the beginning just waiting to fold under the heat.

[Olavision]

That's a very intricate explanation for what happened. Very absolute. The accusations in your comment are so precise that you'd have to be Darby and your aren't. You're just a spiteful person, with nothing but vengeance and anger pent up inside of you. Try directing it back to the government.  Darby saved lives. You have issues.

[sundar213]

common ground preceded darbys involvement with fbi

[sperrico]

It's obvious that Mr. Darby was well-paid by his federal handlers. Look at the facts: he has absolutely no education; no skills. He is married-for now- with a child. He needed money and assistance. He has had his home mortgage paid for and an annual stipend from his snitching.

[Meredythkaydayy]

he was only paid 12,000

[Britton1977]

Your an idiot

[josephi44]

You're an idiot. Its self defeating when to spell it wrong and make that statement.

[ambo516]

@Britton1977 he is not! so sthu!

[TwoSet]

i thought he was only paid 12k plus expenses.. thats the fbi's and his take on the amount paid

[builden]

so how many of these commentors were long term volunteers, hmm darby had his hands full, indeed i found him to be brillant, in many ways people were quick to point fingers, when shit happened sexist, ...wtf this was about managing volunteers thou the non-transparent hierarchies, stuff was hmm there but not necessarily due to him do i have space to name names, na i hope brandon darby is in my camp at the next disaster job well done bro and lisa too

[LSDballerina]

I hope this fucker one day burns in his own molotov mess.

Support Crowder and fuck this bastard.

[swckswck]

So if this guy ostensibly opposed the molotovs, why wasn't he counseling the guys he framed up in the ways of nonviolence? Isn't wrecking people's lives violence? And what's up with the fake accent? This guy's a grade-A chump.

[CodaJohnPaul]

@swckswck That's right, you idiots need to be counseled against using firebombs. because... I guess you're too stupid to figure that out on your own?

[gjredpill]

Snitch, snitch, snitch, and he wasn't a great activist. when he was 'in charge' at cg he was sexist, a little racist, hierarchial and he chased off tons of amazing people who poured their heart and soul into cg and the lower 9th. Fuck self-centered, meglomaniacal snitches.

[anarchofiddle]

Of course throwing molotovs is not a good idea when everyone involved in the action does not consent to it.

Though if Darby maintains that he is an activist, it makes no sense that he would go undercover for 18+ months to infiltrate and aid in the prosecution of friends. A real activist would talk his friends out of doing what he saw as being irreparable harm to the movement. So, he's either a complete fake, or a complete failure. But no matter what, he's a rat.

[AKAMuchLove]

You haters are douchebags. You think hurling molatov cocktails is a good idea? Brandon did good!

[donttrustany1]

you will be forever known as a rat.

someone who sided with the biggest mass murders in history.

hope it was worth it.

[stimulator]

I wonder how the IRA would have handled this situation...

[thisagainmn]

fucker, nice fucking "morals" work for murders. nice.

[MothaFuckthePolice]

snitch

[mooneez]

off this rat

[voteforpeace08]

Check out Overture's Film "The Visitor"

also - GO TO REFUGEEFILMS(dot)TV

see the brilliant work of Terence Rosemore (TRose) and his buddies as they go from LA to LA

one other thing - Did you ever consider going to Cuba and shooting a thing on Gitmo?

[madebutante]

This is a post from Indymedia about Brandon: i remember working at common ground while darby was 'in charge', and i remember the rampant sexism & misogyny, unaddressed sexual violence, non-transparent hierarchies, and random decision-making processes of the group under darby's leadership. i say this not to defame any of the good people who put their lives into cg, but to say -- it was always clear that this guy knew nothing about transformative, radical social change.

[Character counts.)

[tuberpie68]

Did you know that Darby is suspected of being the "blue-'It's Great To Be White'-shirt/Confederate flag guy", in nauiocelotl's & codesilas's vids, of the pro-Palestinian march, in Anaheim, on Sun., Jan. 4th? You can also see Democracy Now's expose of him on it's Tues., Jan. 6th broadcast, as being an informant/provocateur for the FBI.

[BobForehead]

i keep telling Them™ that i'll fully work informant action, but i guess i'm between skill sets....

BTW: the Google ad-overs on this vid are precious.

Happy Change, 'Flux!