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Radical Awakening: From America Hater to Hero, by Matthew Vadum (Townhall magazine, April 2010)

Radical Awakening: From America Hater to Hero, by Matthew Vadum (Townhall magazine, April 2010)

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This article is Radical Awakening: From America Hater to Hero, by Matthew Vadum (Townhall magazine, April 2010). It is about Brandon Darby, an American hero who foiled a left-wing plot to bomb the Republican Party's 2008 national convention. It is posted with kind permission of Townhall magazine.

Matthew Vadum (matthewvadum.com) is the author of Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011).
This article is Radical Awakening: From America Hater to Hero, by Matthew Vadum (Townhall magazine, April 2010). It is about Brandon Darby, an American hero who foiled a left-wing plot to bomb the Republican Party's 2008 national convention. It is posted with kind permission of Townhall magazine.

Matthew Vadum (matthewvadum.com) is the author of Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011).

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id you know that a courageousformer radical helped to avert aplanned left-wing terrorist attack at the2008 Republican National Conventionthat might have killed who knows howmany Americans?Neither did I until recently.That’s because if you disrupt aterrorist attack on Americans by Islamic fundamentalists as NorthwestFlight 253 passenger Jasper Schuringadid on Christmas Day, you’re a hero;however, if you take the initiativeto undermine a terrorist attackon Americans by supposedly well-intentioned left-wing fundamentalists, you might as well be a terrorist yourself.Brandon Darby, who in recent yearsalso refused leftists’ invitations to getinvolved in Venezuelan communistsubversion here in America and in anti-Israeli terrorism in Palestine, learnedthis unpalatable truth the hard way.
THE LEFT-WING PLOT TOKILL REPUBLICANS
 After years of in-your-face protests,confrontational tactics and working with America-haters, Darby eventually experienced a political epiphany. Herejected the radical Left and its culture of political violence. He came to realize that America, for all its faults, wasn’t such a bad place after all.“I felt I had a duty to atone after badmouthing my country for so many  years,” Darby told me in an interview. “Ilove my country.”But Darby didn’t always love hiscountry.Darby previously considered himself arevolutionary. His charisma and militantanti-Americanism made the intenseTexan a larger-than-life figure amongleftist activists in the South.He openly called for the overthrowof the U.S. government, which heconsidered too corrupt and oppressive to be reformed. He expressed his hatred of police as guardians of the status quo. Heconsorted with eco-terrorist tree-spikers,radical feminists and black nationalists.He was approached to rob an armoredcar and asked to commit arson to fightgentrification. He mouthed politically correct slogans and platitudes about theBush administration. Government didn’tcare about people, and in his eyes, themuch-maligned response to HurricaneKatrina proved it.But around the same time, the formerradical community organizer was turningaway from radicalism, and at tremendouspersonal risk, he undermined a left- wing terrorist plot to attack the 2008Republican National Convention in St.Paul, Minn. If he hadn’t taken action, Americans exercising their free speechrights and police officers might have been killed.Without informing his fellowanarchists, Darby offered his assistance tothe FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and,at the FBI’s request, infiltrated a left- wing group known as the Austin Affinity Group. The outfit had joined with a largercoalition of progressive organizationsthat facetiously called itself the “RNC Welcoming Committee.” The committeehoped to lay siege to the GOP conventionthat nominated the presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin.The FBI sent Darby to meet withanarchists who were developing their planat a bookstore in Austin.“It was a group of people whoseexplicit purpose was to organize a groupof ‘black bloc’ anarchists to shut theRepublican convention down by any means necessary,” he explained. “They showed videos of people throwingMolotov cocktails, andthey were giving peopleideas.”The two 20-somethingplotters on whom Darby informed, David Guy McKay and Bradley Neil Crowder, had madehomemade riot shieldsand were ready to usethem in St. Paul to help demonstrators block streets near the Xcel Energy Centerin order to prevent GOP delegates fromparticipating in the convention. Theshields were discovered and confiscated.But McKay and Crowder wereundeterred by this setback. Togetherthey manufactured instruments of deathcalculated to inflict maximum pain and bodily harm on people whose political views they disagreed with.During a search of a residence, policefound gas masks, slingshots, helmets,knee pads and eight Molotov cocktailsconsisting of bottles filled with gasoline with attached wicks made from tampons.“They mixed gasoline with oil so it would stick to clothing and skin and burnlonger,” Darby told me.Thanks to Darby’s cooperation with theFBI, the two anarchist would-be bombthrowers are now languishing in prison.McKay entered a “guilty” plea and wassentenced in May 2009 to 48 monthsin prison plus three years of supervisedrelease for possession of an unregistered
Brandon Darby learnedsomething from HugoChavez’s Venezuela. Oncea hard-core radical whosided with progressiverevolutionaries, Darbyprevented a left-wingterrorist attack on the2008 GOP convention.Now, this America-lovingpatriot is the target of thedomestic extremists heonce called “friends.”
RADICALAWAKENING:
From America Hater to Hero 
By Matthew Vadum
This picture of a “wanted” poster for BrandonDarby was taken in Austin, Texas. Radical lef
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“firearm,” illegal manufacture of a firearmand possession of a firearm with no serialnumber. A week before, Crowder cut adeal with prosecutors and was sentencedto 24 months in prison for possession of an unregistered firearm.McKay received the stiffer sentencein part because he fabricated a tall taleabout Darby’s involvement in the plot.During sentencing, U.S. District JudgeMichael Davis went out of his way tomake a specific legal finding that McKay obstructed justice by falsely accusingDarby of inducing him to manufacturethe incendiary devices.Davis told McKay he crossed the line between peaceful dissent and violentprotest. “You were leading the charge. You and Crowder were coming up here[to Minnesota] to do anarchy against thesystem.”But now the story takes a strange turn.After Darby, who until the end of 2008 had been a confidential FBIinformant, revealed that he had worked with authorities to pre-empt the violentconspiracy, he became the subject of a campaign of vilification by the Left.Google Darby’s name and the words“snitch” and “rat” appear. Cyber-squattersappropriated his name and created ahateful Web site to defame him.The floodgates of abuse burst openafter Darby acknowledged in an openletter posted at an alternative news Website that not only had he worked with theFBI, but he also “strongly” stood behindhis decision to do so.The irretrievably liberal
New YorkTimes
ignored his heroism. A Jan. 5,2009, article focused not on Darby’s life-saving intervention but on the feelings of “betrayal” his former allies in left-winganarchist circles were experiencing.The paper showed how shocked andappalled Scott Crow, who with Darby co-founded the Common Ground Relief agency in New Orleans after HurricaneKatrina, was after learning about Darby’scooperation with the FBI.“I put it all on the line to defend him when accusations first came out,” Crowsaid. “Brandon Darby is somebody I had entrusted with my life in NewOrleans, and now I feel endangered by him.” Why someone who presumably hadn’t committed a crime would feel“endangered” by knowing an FBIinformant is unclear.ACORN founder Wade Rathke, who worked as a professional agitator for the violent Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s, would have preferred thatRepublican delegates be incinerated.He denounced Darby for working withthe authorities to disrupt the domesticterrorists. “It seemed so, how should Isay it, ’60s?”It’s “one thing to disagree, but it’s a whole different thing to rat on folks,Rathke wrote on his blog.This response to ideological apostasy is not altogether surprising. Leftists whoabandon their faith are demonized by their former co-religionists. Relentlessattacks on Greenpeace co-founderPatrick Moore and former radical DavidHorowitz continue to the present day,decades after they moved rightward.
RIGHT-WING VIOLENCE BAD, LEFT-WING VIOLENCE GOOD?
Compare the treatment of Darby at thehands of the Left to the respectful—often groveling—treatment affordedObamaCare architect Robert Creamer.A HuffingtonPost.com contributorand husband of shrill socialist Rep. JanSchakowsky, D-Ill., Creamer served prisontime for kiting checks and failing to pay  withholding taxes for his leftist nonprofit,Illinois Public Action Fund. Just like hisliberal friends in Congress and the Obamaadministration, he refused to roll backspending and instead created a modifiedPonzi scheme in order to continue drawinghis full $100,000 salary.This crusader for social justice andpolitical consultant to DemocraticChicago Mayor Richard Daley andimpeached Democratic Illinois Gov. RodBlagojevich even whined at his 2006sentencing that he received a five-monthperiod of incarceration, well below the30 to 37 months called for in federalsentencing guidelines. The media failedto call him on it.Convicted cop-killing activists LeonardPeltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal arelegends on the Left. Black Panther Abu-Jamal in particular enjoys a cult followingamong radicals even though no seriousperson—including Abu-Jamal himself, who failed to claim to be innocent at histrial—contests that in 1981 he shot andkilled Philadelphia police officer DanielFaulkner in cold blood.Creamer, Peltier and Abu-Jamal areall heroes to the Left no matter whatthey did, and to some precisely 
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 what they did.This is because on the Left there is apresumption of good intentions even by fellow-traveling terrorists. As left-wingtalk radio host Thom Hartmann told melast year: “My left-wing crazies are betterthan your right-wing crazies.”Hartmann explained: “Your right-wingcrazies are incited to violence based onfear and hate of people because of whomthey are, because they’re gay, becausethey’re Catholic, because they’re Jewish, because they’re black, because they’reHispanic. And
our left-wing crazies areincited to violence because they’re trying 
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, and Bradley Crowder, the infamous Texas 2, are both serving timefollowing their foiled terrorist attack on the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.
(Freethetexas2.com)

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