Below is the transcript of my video with relevant links.
Below that is the embedded Crimethinc document mentioned.
Here’s a related write-up by fellow CopBlock.org contributor Ademo Freeman: Phil Christiana – (FBI Agent) It’s Not My Friends You Should Be Looking At
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A couple of days ago Crimethinc published the pamphlet Bounty Hunters & Child Predators: Inside the FBI Entrapment Strategy.
The document outlines tactics used by FBI employees to frame individuals, which is then leveraged for political gain to vilify entire groups of people and ideologies.
Having long advocated for complete liberty – that is, 100% freedom and 100% responsibility, where each of us is free to act, so long as we don’t initiate force, I am aware of many situations that fit the entrapment model described – where no one is acting in the wrong until a FBI employee infiltrates, advocates violence and in almost every case, supplies the money or ordinance on which the arrest and headline hinge. And through which another claimed usurpation of rights is “justified.”
This scenario became a bit more real for me after I learned that a friend had been asked by an FBI agent to wear a wire.
Yesterday just before 4pm Rich Paul – an activist known for his advocacy for self-ownership – was picked-up by Keene Police employees, ostensibly on a warrant. Rich was brought to the Keene police department and led into an interrogation room where he had an exchange with a man who identified himself as Phil.
Phil inquired where Rich had been immediately prior to the arrest. Rich said “at the club” and Phil gave the address of the Keene Activity Center.
The Keene Activity Center, or KAC, is one a side of a duplex that’s billed as
the community center, heart of operations, and meeting space utilized by liberty-oriented individuals based in Keene. The KAC is a comfortable environment to be yourself among friends working in concert to advance the peaceful evolution.
Phil asked Rich to return to the KAC, wearing a wire, and to share with those present a completely fabricated scenario – that he’d been snatched-up for a crime that he hadn’t committed. Rich was told by Phil that he wanted to see who questioned the story and at what length.
Rich invoked his right to remain silent and noted his desire to speak with his attorney before deciding how to move forward.
Phil gave Rich his business card – after he’d tried to scratch-out his last name which was still readable as Christiana- and told him to keep their exchange confidential and be in touch by 5pm today.
Instead, at 5pm Rich’s attorney gave Christiana a call and myself and others are working to make this situation transparent.
After all, we have nothing to hide. No one associated with the KAC advocates violence.
A quick Google search turned-up Christiana’s bio:
I am a CPA (accountant) by education from Rutgers University in New Jersey. I have been a special agent with the FBI for 20 years. I was stationed in the Boston field office as a new agent in 1992. I spent five years as an operator with the FBI Hostage Rescue Team at Quantico, VA (1996 – 2001). I am currently assigned to the NH joint Terrorism Task Force at the Bedford (NH) Resident Agency as a special bomb technician. I am also responsible for security related issues at the Manchester Boston Regional Airport and Seabrook Nuclear power plant. I have also served as the primary firearms and tactial instructor for the Boston Field office.
But there’s more to this story.
Back in 2005 DadaOrwell shared on NHUnderground – then the most-popular forum in the ‘shire – that he received a call from Phil Christiana, who sought to “maintain a dialogue”
He wrote:
He says he wants to have lunch with me or something along those lines in about a month. I assume he is trying to do intelligence, find the next tim mcveigh or determine for sure that this movement is the wrong place to look. This is not something I object to in theory, but I do feel uncomfortable doing anything that would cost taxpayer dollars, such as sitting down to lunch with these guys for an hour at taxpayer expense.
[UPDATE - it was brought to my attention that "dadaorwell" was the forum handle used by Dave Ridley, so the above is from the same interaction attributed to Ridley immediately below]
Longtime ‘shire-based journalist Dave Ridley, who, based on his entertaining and informative videos, has gained a following from many in the area – including LEOs who’ve told me personally that they watch and respect his channel, noted that he too was visited by Phil Christiana.
Ridley wrote about their exchange:
My experience with him was that he was more or less polite and professional…but creepy. He came to the same Keene house when I lived there, to learn more about Russell Kanning’s plans for civil disobedience at Manchester Airport’s TSA checkpoint. That was in 2005.
He also requested to have lunch with me and indicated, not in so many words, that he wanted me to be an informant. I told him I would be interested in having that lunch but would report everything we said to the public. He decline to interact with me after that
not included in video: Phil Christiana had an hour-long conversation with then Keene-based activist Russel Kanning:
In early 2011 Christiana visited the home of then-Keene-based activist Kurt Hoffman. After Christiana identified himself as “Phil” who worked with the FBI Hoffman shut his door and declined to talk.
Christiana later called Hoffman twice from a number later determined to be his cell phone – (603) 365-8098 – and visited Hoffman’s dad in Mass, during which time he inquired about his knowledge of activities in Keene.
Later that summer, after the conclusion of the Porcupine Freedom Festival – an annual, week-long event held at Rogers Campground that was attended by over 1,200 pro-liberty people, FBI employees stopped-by and questioned the owners about those who attended, though they claimed to be concerned about vendors selling alcohol without a license.
A couple of months back Brad Jardis – who himself had worked in law enforcement before quitting his job due to his unwillingness to arrest those who use marijuana medicinally – confided that he had been asked to sit-down with a FBI employee. That conversation too was focused on learning who at the KAC advocated the use of violence.
In no uncertain terms Jardis told the inquisitor that such a line of questioning was totally off-base because no one at the KAC advocated such things.
More-recently, after friend Josh Nilsson was picked-up for not checking in with his probation officer as dictated, he too was questioned along a similar vein. While caged at the Cheshire County jail, Josh was asked if he was aware of any violence advocated by anyone associated with the KAC. He laughed at such a statement, knowing full-well that it was completely without merit.
Should we be surprised by Phil Christiana’s snooping-around here in Keene or that of his colleagues in other areas where individuals freely associate and advocate for an alternative to the system that today bestows upon some extra rights?
No. In fact, it’s to be expected due to the perverse incentives inherent in the institution for which they work.
The way Christiana and other employees of government agencies justify their taxpayer-funded salaries is to create issues where none exist – something economist Bob Higgs has deemed the ratchet effect. Manufactured and trumped-up Incidents and arrests are given as justification for a greater police state and the expense of your rights.
There’s no internal check on government as it exists today. No matter the “leadership” the trend is always to grow in size and scope simply because the goods and services its actors provide – in this case “law enforcement” – are provided in a vacuum, absent mechanisms for real accountability. Services rendered are either unwarranted – such as victimless crimes – or done inefficiently.
The Crimethinc write-up mentioned at the beginning of this video seeks to instill in readers the need for a security culture to mitigate risks. The best way that can be done, in my opinion, is to be transparent. To not let threats scare you into complacency or even worse, partnership. Especially if you’re not doing anything wrong. That’s the purpose of this video.
As the size and scope of the liberty-oriented community grows in Keene and around the world, those who seek to maintain the Statist Quo are rightly worried. Not due to the threat of violence – at least from this community – but due to the fact that the bad idea on which they subsist is being seen and thus is eroding.
I know I and the people with whom I choose to associate – diverse as they are – advocate peaceful tactics. FreeKeene.com – a group blog where some who patron the KAC blog – has the tagline “peaceful evolution.” That’s not just a phrase but an idea. And ideas have consequences.
It’s not about a revolution – violent or otherwise, as whatever form that takes, it still revolves around the bad idea of a “leader” but about an evolution – moving past that outdated concept to a free society where we each govern ourselves.
I’m glad Rich and others approached by Christiana have spoken-up. Just like in the schoolyard, it is the bullies, those who initiate force and who act in the wrong, who rely on threats to censor their misdeeds, knowing full-well that were their actions known, they would not be tolerated.
Transparency is key. The curtain is being pulled-back and many are seeing that the emperor wears no clothes. Authority once unthinkingly granted is being retracted.
To me, the means don’t justify the ends. The means are an end in themselves. Live not according to fear, but according to your own conscience. Be led by love.
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Boston Field Office of FBI
Phone: (617) 742-5533
Fax: (617) 223-6327
E-mail: [email protected]
Bedford Satellite Office of Boston Field Office of FBI (covers Cheshire County)
Phone: (603) 472-2224
Fax: (603) 472-9419
Phillip “Phil” Christiana
(603) 365-8098
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Inside the FBI Entrapment Society [pdf for reading]
Inside the FBI Entrapment Society [.pdf for printing]
Inside the FBI Entrapment Strategy – by CrimeThinc
FYI – I just called the number listed for Christiana 603-365-8098. It went to VM but a male’s voice identified it as Phil Christiana.
I left a message (noted that I was recording) and underscored that his inquiry into this subject is without merit. I encouraged him to check out the vid (gave him the URL to Cop Block) and to act on his conscience (quit his job).
Pete: So stopping internal / home grown terrorists isn’t important? Lot’s of internal plots have been stopped. Maybe there isn’t any “plotting” at the “KAC”. But look at some of the rhetoric you and some of your friends use. Look at the calls for violence on this site alone (no,not by you but by lots of others). You absolutely have the right to free speach. But there can be consequences for exer ising that freedom. Sometimes….people pay attention. To you it may be innocent free speach….to others it can be cause for alarm. And that’s OK.
Sounds like you might be just a little worried. And it may not be you. But maybe someone you know.
But hey…just because your paranoid, that doesn’t mean their not out to get you right?
Pete I am beyond proud of what you and your crew are doing in Keene. You guys (& gals!) are such an inspiration!! I’m on my phone so I can’t type much but you and your cause played a big part in opening my eyes so I could see that the world of criminal “justice” is quite the opposite. I’m so glad I’m not involved in it anymore! There was no “breathing room” in that world and I was constantly on pins and needles bc I didn’t agree with my colleagues or classmates… You are an amazing person and I am so proud of you!
-Lauren Carlisle
Ps “Live not according to fear, but according to your own conscience. Be led by love.” — Amazing.
Ummm t.? Every single “home grown” terrorist crew and/or plot for the last 10 years has been either FBI planned, sponsored, or supplied. Every single one. If you want to do away with home grown terrorism, disband the FBI.
t,. it’s known that the FBI setup these “terrorist plots” themselves and then foil their own plots. Where have you been for the last 20 years or so? The FBI doesn’t even really deny it.
If you want to remain willfully ignorant, then so be it.
Oh. Ok
“just because your paranoid, that doesn’t mean their not out to get you right?”
t., Please take the time to learn the difference between your and you’re, and their and they’re. You will find that you will taken more seriously when your writing doesn’t come of as painfully ignorant.
Just blog typing on a tablet. It frequently auto fills and I don’t really care to back and correct on the comment section of a blog site. But thanks for important thoughts.
Pete,it is so brilliant of you to expose this on the new media.
I assume any one who is calling for violence to be a government agent!
Awesome job!!!!
Phil Christiana,you should be ashamed of your self!
FBI,DHS,CIA,DEA,DOD,Fed Reserve,CFR,Trilateral Com,Bilderberg,are the real terrorist!
The FBI tried to get Randy Weaver to infiltrate a group also, and when he refused, they flat-out assasinated his wife and son.
Interesting read on Wikipedia regarding Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who assasinated Vicky Weaver…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi
“On 13 September 1993, Charles Riley, a fellow FBI sniper deployed during the Waco Siege claimed that he had heard Horiuchi shooting from Sierra 1, an F.B.I.-held house in front of the compound holding eight snipers, including Horiuchi and Christopher Curran on 19 April 1993. Riley later retracted his statement, saying that he had been misquoted, and that he had only heard snipers at Sierra 1 announce that shots had been fired by Branch Davidians.[7]
Three of the twelve expended .308 Winchester shell casings that the Texas Rangers reported finding in the house were at Horiuchi’s position. However, officials maintain that they could have been left behind from the earlier use of the house by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives snipers on February 28, 1993, and that it would be “nearly impossible” to match them to Horiuchi’s rifle, as it had probably been rebarreled since that time.[8]
For the five months following the Waco inferno, Timothy McVeigh worked at gun shows and handed out free cards printed up with Horiuchi’s name and address, “in the hope that somebody in the Patriot movement would assassinate the sharpshooter”. He wrote hate mail to the sniper, suggesting that “what goes around, comes around”. McVeigh considered targeting Horiuchi, or a member of his family, before settling on a bombing attack on a federal building- choosing to target the Murrah Building.[9]”
A real class-act, this FBI… and they blame domestic terrorism on libertarians and free staters… pretty much anybody who believes the Federal Government has severly over-reached their authority and needs to be down-sized and emasculated.
from the Ruby Ridge page:
“The Ruby Ridge Rules of Engagement (ROE) had been drawn up on the basis of reports from USMS and FBI headquarters, bolstered by unconfirmed news media accounts accepted by HQ, that exaggerated the threat posed by the Weavers.
1. If any adult male is observed with a weapon prior to the announcement, deadly force can and should be employed, if the shot can be taken without endangering any children.
2. If any adult in the compound is observed with a weapon after the surrender announcement is made, and is not attempting to surrender, deadly force can and should be employed to neutralize the individual.
3. If compromised by any animal, particularly the dogs, that animal should be eliminated.
4. Any subjects other than Randall Weaver, Vicki Weaver, Kevin Harris, presenting threats of death or grievous bodily harm, the FBI rules of deadly force are in effect. Deadly force can be utilized to prevent the death or grievous bodily injury to oneself or that of another.[44]
Standard deadly force policy of the FBI was: “Agents are not to use deadly force against any person except as necessary in self-defense or the defense of another, when they have reason to believe they or another are in danger of death or grievous bodily harm. Whenever feasible, verbal warning should be given before deadly force is applied.”[45] Under the Ruby Ridge ROE 3 and 4, the Weaver dogs, the Weaver children and third parties were subject to the standard deadly force policy and could only be shot in self-defense if they presented a danger of death or grievous bodily harm. However, under the Ruby Ridge ROE 1 and 2, deadly force against the Weaver adults should be used without the justification of defense and without any verbal warning.”
“Both FBI HQ and the Site Commanders in Idaho re-evaluated the situation based on information they were receiving from US Marshals Hunt, Cooper and Roderick about what had happened on August 21. On about August 24, 1992, the fourth day of the siege on the Weaver family, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Danny Coulson wrote a memo:
OPR 004477
Something to Consider
1. Charge against Weaver is Bull Shit.
2. No one saw Weaver do any shooting.
3. Vicki has no charges against her.
4. Weaver’s defense. He ran down the hill to see what dog was
barking at. Some guys in camys shot his dog.
Started shooting at him. Killed his son. Harris did the
shooting [of Degan]. He [Weaver] is in pretty strong legal position.”[10][51]
On August 26, 1992, 10:53 a.m., the Rules of Engagement that had been in effect since the arrival of the HRT on August 22 were revoked.[52]“
I admit some of it is crazy…but you push Timothy McVeigh as a hero?
@t,
Again, you side with the “authorities”. defjeff is merely pointing out that Mcvey only reacted the way he did because of the actions of the “authorities”. If you would take the time to really research the Ruby Ridge, Waco, OKC bobings, you would realise this. I say this not to support Mcvey’s actions, just to explain the realities of history. I reside in OK. I knew a victim of the bombing (most in OK do). I, unlike you (t) am able to seperate the emotional from the factual. Open your mind, man. Look at things from all perspectives. Do not stand on one position only. Life is fluid and ever-changing, your positions will change with it. Only a fool states that the state is correct 100% of the time. Your posts on this site have been exceedingly foolish.
@Alvin: I didn’t know anyone at ruby ridge, Oklahoma city or Waco. Not “emotionally invested” at all.
My biggest issues with Waco and ruby ridge is one of tactics. Those were typical “swinging dick” tactical disasters. One of the reason I left my SWAT team is because of the same type ofcrap. Commanders who always want to kick in the door, force the issue. All were ex-military with some small cocks that had something to prove I guess. Almost all of my drug search warrant operation plans…planned them out because of those tactics. The cause of those incidents isn’t quite as clean as you want to imply. Also not as clean as the government wants to imply either.
McVeigh on the other hand was just an immature kid that was easily influenced. He allowed those around him to poison his mind about perceived wrongs. He then decided to become a murderer. He wasn’t really that deep.
In speak about perspective in this site all the time. The area where most miss out is their perspective in “their rights”. Everyone has rights. Yours don’t always get to be the most important. Sometimes they are, sometimes not so much. Most around here think that their right are the only ones that matter. Such is the liberal mind I guess.
@t,
No where did I even remotely imply that Timothy Mcveigh is any type of hero. All I am saying is that he most likely would not have committed his criminal acts had the FBI shown any shred of integrity in the Ruby Ridge and Waco massacres.
The State of Idaho was absolutely correct in charging FBI sniper Horuchi in the slaying of Vicky Weaver. Why did the Federal Government quash the prosecution? Answer: lack of integrity, lack of responsibility, lack of credibility, etc.
What I am really saying is that the FBI seeks to label everyone a potential domestic terrorist, so that they can justify investigating people solely on the basis that they are engaging in activities which are protected under the Constitution, and so that they can justify future Ruby Ridge and Waco slaughters.
The FBI has committed some very serious crimes here, and they have no intention of ever answering for them. So when the FBI comes knocking on free-stater doors looking for informants, people should be aware that the FBI would happily slaughter their wives and children and there is no legal protection to be sought… the RICO act does not apply to federal agents.
Called the number you posted sat. morning. I got Phil’s voice mail.I asked if he knew he was now internet famous and wether he wanted to comment.
He called back later in the afternoon and left a message asking if I knew how to contact Pete. i did not respond. I guess he hadn’t figure out how to send an email through copblock.org.
Odd.
Great job, COP BLOCK! Bring it out into the open where it needs to be!