Vahid Brown: FBI "Woodland Creature"
Oct 7, 2013 13:00:35 GMT -8
Post by Comrade Red on Oct 7, 2013 13:00:35 GMT -8
This is making the rounds and deserves mention for several reasons.
First, slimy informants suck and deserved to be doxxed.
Second, it's radical community news and it's just a matter of time before the pseudo radical Kbots point to this as "proof" they're targets of "cointelpro" or some dumb shit, instead of being victims of their own stupidity.
Third, to underscore something that may not be clear: We have no problems working with police or even Feds. We have a problem with liars. And authorities abusing their privileges.
We sympathize but don't agree with the meme all police are pigs. But we could be convinced the ones eager to work swat/sert team are. Definitely anyone spending most of their time "in the streets" will get this idea.(Hint: maybe not all effective activism happens in the streets).
Valid Brown doesn't appear to be doing anything useful. If he was under cover to bust a drug ring, human traffickers, or whatever, he wouldn't be using his real name and hanging out at coffee shops. That's the MO of a slimball spying on the alternative scene "just cuz". More than spying; trying to get himself integrated:
seattlefreepress.org/2013/10/03/heads-up-portland-watch-out-for-fbi-trainer-vahid-brown/
Last link goes to this blog: kristinberger.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/more-poetry-at-lents-market-aug-4/
Partial quote:
FBI trainers read poetry in their spare time. The things you learn on the Internets.
WTF is he looking for? We're pretty sure terrorists aren't hiding in the cupboards at the Red and Black. Meanwhile, epic failure for the Feds.
Hey, guys, maybe focus more on phishing schemes and racists organizers. Less on imaginary terrorists at anarchist coffee shops. Just an idea.
First, slimy informants suck and deserved to be doxxed.
Second, it's radical community news and it's just a matter of time before the pseudo radical Kbots point to this as "proof" they're targets of "cointelpro" or some dumb shit, instead of being victims of their own stupidity.
Third, to underscore something that may not be clear: We have no problems working with police or even Feds. We have a problem with liars. And authorities abusing their privileges.
We sympathize but don't agree with the meme all police are pigs. But we could be convinced the ones eager to work swat/sert team are. Definitely anyone spending most of their time "in the streets" will get this idea.(Hint: maybe not all effective activism happens in the streets).
Valid Brown doesn't appear to be doing anything useful. If he was under cover to bust a drug ring, human traffickers, or whatever, he wouldn't be using his real name and hanging out at coffee shops. That's the MO of a slimball spying on the alternative scene "just cuz". More than spying; trying to get himself integrated:
seattlefreepress.org/2013/10/03/heads-up-portland-watch-out-for-fbi-trainer-vahid-brown/
Heads up Portland: Watch out for FBI Trainer Vahid Brown
Vahid Brown was or is an FBI instructor at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, who has recently been attempting to integrate himself into radical and activist scenes in Portland.
As an instructor for the CTC’s FBI counter-terrorism training program, he designed curricula on Islamist terrorism and taught regular courses both at the FBI Academy and for Joint Terrorism Task Force training events at FBI Field Offices throughout the United States.
According to FOIA records obtained by the ACLU, it is clear that Vahid was training new FBI recruits for the CTC from 2008-2010. His classes included: Origins of Islam, Islam and Militancy, Modern Jihadist Groups, Islamic Terrorism and the Internet, How Terror Networks Use the Internet, and Radicalization.
Vahid Brown attended Reed College in Portland from 2003 – 2006, and recently has been attempting to re-integrate himself into radical and activist scenes in Portland. He portrays himself as “an activist and woodland creature who has been reading poetry at Portland coffeehouses, ballrooms, and basement bars for nearly twenty years.”
Vahid Brown works for the FBI, and as such should be thoroughly unwelcome among anarchists, radicals, and activists. Though his area of expertise is Islamic militancy rather than anarchism, he is still a threat and should not be tolerated, just like any other FBI employee, agent, informant, infiltrator, or cop who attempts to become friendly with radicals.
An agent of the state who has the same subcultural interests as you is still an agent of the state.
An agent of the state who calls himself an activist is still an agent of the state.
An agent of the state who works to destroy the lives of people who aren’t necessarily anarchists is still an agent of the state.
Sources:
Haqqani Network’s Reign Of Terror On Afghanistan www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112502190
Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedouts books.google.com/books?id=IXqRjnvugXoC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=vahid+brown+fbi+trainer&source=bl&ots=tFOp6u8W4c&sig=-0ZMkE-Woe7wGnYcavDBJ6dzuwY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AwsUUrTmBaWtigKR-ICACQ&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=vahid%20brown%20fbi%20trainer&f=false
FOIA files on Vahid Brown www.aclu.org/files/fbimappingfoia/20111019/ACLURM009767.pdf
Vahid Brown’s activist/poet mini-autobiography kristinberger.wordpress.com/tag/vahid-brown/
Vahid Brown was or is an FBI instructor at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, who has recently been attempting to integrate himself into radical and activist scenes in Portland.
As an instructor for the CTC’s FBI counter-terrorism training program, he designed curricula on Islamist terrorism and taught regular courses both at the FBI Academy and for Joint Terrorism Task Force training events at FBI Field Offices throughout the United States.
According to FOIA records obtained by the ACLU, it is clear that Vahid was training new FBI recruits for the CTC from 2008-2010. His classes included: Origins of Islam, Islam and Militancy, Modern Jihadist Groups, Islamic Terrorism and the Internet, How Terror Networks Use the Internet, and Radicalization.
Vahid Brown attended Reed College in Portland from 2003 – 2006, and recently has been attempting to re-integrate himself into radical and activist scenes in Portland. He portrays himself as “an activist and woodland creature who has been reading poetry at Portland coffeehouses, ballrooms, and basement bars for nearly twenty years.”
Vahid Brown works for the FBI, and as such should be thoroughly unwelcome among anarchists, radicals, and activists. Though his area of expertise is Islamic militancy rather than anarchism, he is still a threat and should not be tolerated, just like any other FBI employee, agent, informant, infiltrator, or cop who attempts to become friendly with radicals.
An agent of the state who has the same subcultural interests as you is still an agent of the state.
An agent of the state who calls himself an activist is still an agent of the state.
An agent of the state who works to destroy the lives of people who aren’t necessarily anarchists is still an agent of the state.
Sources:
Haqqani Network’s Reign Of Terror On Afghanistan www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112502190
Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedouts books.google.com/books?id=IXqRjnvugXoC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=vahid+brown+fbi+trainer&source=bl&ots=tFOp6u8W4c&sig=-0ZMkE-Woe7wGnYcavDBJ6dzuwY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AwsUUrTmBaWtigKR-ICACQ&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=vahid%20brown%20fbi%20trainer&f=false
FOIA files on Vahid Brown www.aclu.org/files/fbimappingfoia/20111019/ACLURM009767.pdf
Vahid Brown’s activist/poet mini-autobiography kristinberger.wordpress.com/tag/vahid-brown/
Last link goes to this blog: kristinberger.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/more-poetry-at-lents-market-aug-4/
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Posts Tagged ‘Vahid Brown’
More poetry at Lents Market, Aug. 4!
Posted in news & bits, tagged Graham Murtaugh, Lents International Farmers Market, Paulann Petersen, poetry reading, Portland poets, Vahid Brown, W. Vandoren Wheeler on July 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
We are pleased to invite you to the Lents International Farmers Market for a Poetry Reading on Sun. Aug. 4, from 11-12pm!
Reading their own work will be:
Vahid Brown
Graham Murtaugh
Paulann Petersen
W. Vandoren Wheeler
Lents International Farmers Market is located on the corner of SE Foster & SE 92nd Avenue in Portland, one block west of I-205 and Tri-Met Green Line Station. For a map and to see a listing of vendors, events and performers, please visit lentsfarmersmarket.org.
Hosted by Kristin Berger & Meredith Stewart
*****
Vahid Brown is an activist and woodland creature who has been reading poetry at Portland coffeehouses, ballrooms, and basement bars for nearly twenty years. He’s currently working on a PhD dissertation at Princeton University in Middle Eastern history. He has numerous academic publications in Islamicate intellectual history and modern Middle Eastern politics, as well as an occasional poetry publication, including in Elizabeth Archer’s anthology Blown Out: Portland’s Indie Poets (Church of Poetry Press, 2008).
More poetry at Lents Market, Aug. 4!
Posted in news & bits, tagged Graham Murtaugh, Lents International Farmers Market, Paulann Petersen, poetry reading, Portland poets, Vahid Brown, W. Vandoren Wheeler on July 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
We are pleased to invite you to the Lents International Farmers Market for a Poetry Reading on Sun. Aug. 4, from 11-12pm!
Reading their own work will be:
Vahid Brown
Graham Murtaugh
Paulann Petersen
W. Vandoren Wheeler
Lents International Farmers Market is located on the corner of SE Foster & SE 92nd Avenue in Portland, one block west of I-205 and Tri-Met Green Line Station. For a map and to see a listing of vendors, events and performers, please visit lentsfarmersmarket.org.
Hosted by Kristin Berger & Meredith Stewart
*****
Vahid Brown is an activist and woodland creature who has been reading poetry at Portland coffeehouses, ballrooms, and basement bars for nearly twenty years. He’s currently working on a PhD dissertation at Princeton University in Middle Eastern history. He has numerous academic publications in Islamicate intellectual history and modern Middle Eastern politics, as well as an occasional poetry publication, including in Elizabeth Archer’s anthology Blown Out: Portland’s Indie Poets (Church of Poetry Press, 2008).
FBI trainers read poetry in their spare time. The things you learn on the Internets.
WTF is he looking for? We're pretty sure terrorists aren't hiding in the cupboards at the Red and Black. Meanwhile, epic failure for the Feds.
Hey, guys, maybe focus more on phishing schemes and racists organizers. Less on imaginary terrorists at anarchist coffee shops. Just an idea.
