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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
becauseof
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
Liberal activists David McKay, lef
, 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)