Reply #59: Manny Goldstein? Anarcho-communist. FBI Cointelpro?

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Lol, I think you just dislike Ramsey for going after Wesley Clark as a war criminal seeing that you have this piece up on your Clark blog.

Before give that article too much credibility, consider this:

Manny Goldstein, LMAO, is the pseudonym based on Orwell's 1984, for an anarchist dedicated to hacking and other forms of techno-subversion from the Anarcho-Communist Clan (ACC) who's been in a pissing contest with the International Action Center and the Workers World Party because the IAC doesn't "want to be associated with the ACC or the Black Block"- they don't trust his little movement and accused some of them of working with the FBI & causing problems at the antiwar marches. The undercover agents posing as "anarchists" should immediately spring to your mind. Manny's piece is nothing more than a hit piece on the WWP (Workers World Party) which, by the way is not Stalinist as he accuses but Trotskyist. A real anarchist, which Manny pretends to be, would at least have at least gotten his terms straight.

Who is Manny Goldberg and more importantly, what is his agenda?

The ONLY other article the mysterious Manny Goldstein is known for is an article about the dangers of militias. Both of his articles reek of COINTELPRO. It's interesting to note that ole Manny has been accused of working closely with the FBI and various police agencies around the country. He admitted, when Clinton was President that he was maintaining a large archive on the various groups on the Right connected with militias. Now that Bush is in power, he's going after the Left. His "article" reeks of the FBI or some other similar government arm trying to discredit the antiwar movement and the WWP. Kind of strange for an anarchist whose biggest claim to fame, after people started asking questions about him, is that he got arrested protesting at the RNC, don't you think?

If you do a search on that article, you'll find that Goldstein himself, plasters it all over the sites where people are gathering to protest the war to try to discourage them from protesting with ANSWER, the largest antiwar voice out there. There's a good example http://members.lycos.nl/vadercats/2001/firstofoctober.htm">here:
where he went to an antiwar site and posted:

by Manny Goldstein 5:03pm Fri Sep 28 '01 (Modified on 8:05pm Fri Sep 28 '01) Former attorney general Ramsey Clark is the International Action Center (IAC) hero. Who is he? What's his history. Be careful around stalinist groups. ----- Nasty, bit of business

and was thankfully jumped on by people who knew his agenda. Just like he's jumped on at Indymedia or anywhere he posts that crap.

Who's really the undercover spook here, Ramsey Clark or Manny Goldstein?
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"Take a close look and there is something downright suspicious about former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, now the darling of certain sectors of the radical left. His journey has taken him from the heights of federal power to outer orbits of the political fringe. In the process, he has seemingly transformed from a shill for the most corrupt elements of the US elites to a shill for any foreign despot who claims to oppose the US elites. Who is Ramsey Clark really working for?"

"What is Ramsey Clark: dupe, kook or spook? Has a well-intentioned but none-too-bright Clark been duped by the WWP cadre? Or has his reasoning become unhinged for reasons of personal psychology? Or, is he a deep-cover spook, whose real Devil's pact is with sinister elements of the US intelligence community, his mission to divide and discredit any resistance to Washington's war moves?

"You decide."

Okay, I will decide. Manny Goldstein is a god-damned snitch-jacket punk

Louis Proyect
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/BillWeinberg.htm

Louis Proyect is a well known, kick-ass, long-time leftwing activist and writer who has spent his life promoting peace and social justice

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"Manny Goldstein" is Eric Corley, a libertarian who became famous for various hacking escapades involving the phone company, DVD codes, etc. He named himself after the character Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's 1984, who was the chief enemy of the totalitarian state. He also has a show on WBAI that I find a crushing bore. And a website at: http://www.2600.com/ ((devoted to phreaking and hacking)). Here are some of his ruminations on the WTC attack:

"What happened Tuesday was more than an attack on the United States. It was an attack on all humanity and I think humanity as a whole may well be in an unprecedented position to move forward and deal with this once and for all.

I hope we don't underestimate that power because it's probably the biggest weapon we have on our side...

It's entirely possible that the situation will be taken advantage of to our great detriment as a free society. We intend to keep our eyes open. And then there are the many pieces of mail that are coming in insisting that we DO something, as if we somehow had the power to make it all better. We've been informed numerous times that it's our patriotic duty to hack all Arab web sites, to find bin Laden's phone number, to take Afghanistan off the net, to lay down our swords and offer our services to the government. At best these are simplistic suggestions. At worst, they are really destructive. They're all based upon a faulty premise - that hackers somehow work miracles and can find out anything and accomplish any task as long as there's a computer or phone involved somehow. It just doesn't work like that, something we've been trying for years to tell the media and the movie producers. As always, we intend to be open and helpful with technology. And certainly, if we were to stumble upon something that would be useful in this investigation, I doubt any of us would hesitate to share it. But we do so as individuals, just as we do most everything else.

"But I do understand the anger. I understand the flag waving. I even understand all the talk of war. But ultimately, we will win this fight by being rational and uniting with fellow citizens of the world. Or else we won't win at all."

(http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=716)

I think I'll stick with Ramsey Clark.

http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002/msg00064.htm

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Other than the FBI, FreeRepublic, infiltrators at Indymedia (who get beaten up by the Left), the only others I found quoting that article are Reverend Moon's papers to attack the antiwar movement:

In November, WorldNetDaily produced a special investigative report on the controversial ties of major anti-war leadership, including some of those involved in the current push for impeachment. Anti-war activists and a handful of liberal writers complained of the "hijacking of the anti-war movement" by dangerous political extremists. The WND report told of links to Islamic extremist groups and cult-like, radical Marxist/Stalinists, some of whom are pushing for an armed overthrow of the U.S. Some leaders and speakers were shown to be have a history of being supportive of enemy regimes of the U.S., as well as terrorists. Groups mentioned in the article included the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, the International Action Center and an organizational coalition group, A.N.S.W.E.R.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.prophecies.nostradamus/browse_thread/thread/c9a9c32220dd7b09/d9c94c7054377c5e?q=%22Manny+Goldstein%22&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3D%22Manny+Goldstein%22%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#d9c94c7054377c5e
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Manny Goldstein doesn't present a shred of evidence for any of his assertions and one really has to consider why his piece reads a lot like the Cointelpro pieces written by the FBI's pet columnists in the 60s. Whose interests are served if the movement against the US war in Afghanistan & Iraq is disrupted by irresponsible charges made without any foundation against one wing of the movement? Not mine. Not yours. Not peace. Not justice's. I think you get the idea.



Here's more from that skunk, from his only other piece:

When the FEMA martial law plan was conceived, the domestic enemy being targetted was the Central America solidarity and sanctuary movements, and the plan was based on earlier ones such as Nixon's Operation Garden Plot, which targetted the campus anti_war movement and black militants. However, in 1995, the Clinton administration is conveniently using the Militia to justify beefing up the federal police state apparatus. The administration's Anti_Terrorist Bill, written before the Oklahoma City blast and mostly aimed at foreign "terrorist" groups, would unleash warrantless wiretap capabilities, and create a special FBI warchest for "counter_terrorism". Written by the Clinton White House and being plugged by liberal Democrats such as New York's Rep. Charles Schumer, the bill would give the president the power to unilaterally declare any organization "terrorist." Anyone supporting that organization would be convicted of a felony and jailed for up to 10 years. Immigrants accused of "terrorism" would be deported by special secret courts which would use classified evidence from secret sources.
http://mediafilter.org/MFF/S36/S36.MILITIA.html


here's a picture of the guy:

and another one here (but remove the space before jpg - too big to post)
http://www.mccullagh.org/db7/950-10/emmanuel-goldstein. jpg

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Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia ...
Emmanuel Goldstein, 1984