i also need to point something else out, as the situation unfolds, and i become more cognizant about it.

you may be hearing people say shit about me. maybe you already have. maybe you will in the future.

treat that as a litmus test: these people are undercover pigs. and, maybe you trust them...but, maybe you shouldn't.

and, i'm starting to figure out who they are.

i will reiterate: i'm harmless. i take heavy testosterone suppressors, and am actually in the process of getting my testicles removed, so any concerns about my motives are absurd and transphobic. i have no history of violence, no criminal record and actually have advanced clearance at the border. it is true that i was recently targeted by the transphobic windsor police, but i have no pending charges, i'm not under investigation, and the lawsuit i've been talking about to hold them accountable for a false arrest should be off the ground by mid august at the latest, and probably sooner. i expect a large settlement for the suffering i went through as a consequence of their open discrimination against me.

but, as it was with occupy, i'm going to stay quiet and just point it out. i don't want to get into a conflict with a pig, so i'm just going to take a mental note and an effort to steer clear.

but, what are some signs that somebody is an undercover pig?

1) in activist circles, the biggest telltale sign that you're dealing with a pig is agitation. if you're ever at an activist meeting of any sort, and somebody starts talking about making bombs or resisting violently, then that person is almost certainly a pig. we call them agents provocateurs and what they're doing is trying to entrap you. and, they're sneaky: when i was organizing with food not bombs in ottawa, i had one pig try to convince me to smash up a bar owner's car, because they were accused of sexual assault.

2) the general purpose of an undercover pig is to sow division. what they're trying to do is identify people like me that are some kind of ideological threat to the system - and when i say i'm harmless, i mean i'm harmless to you. i'm not harmless to them. they have good reason to fear me, because my deconstruction of their system is powerful, and subversive. - and turn the mass of people against them. so, with me, they're activating the crude, transphobic fears that the system pushes down from the top in order to try and scare you away from me. i'm happy to report that it isn't actually working, or at least not in the circles that i actually care about, but that's not going to stop them from continuing to do it. when you meet people that are trying to pit one group against another, or trying to single out a specific individual and attack them, that is a telltale sign that the person is an undercover pig.

if you meet an undercover pig that is trying to incite you to do something, entrap you in some way or turn you against something or someone, don't confront them. that doesn't help. you don't actually want the undercover pig to know that you know, because then you get on their list. you might imagine that it's a process of identifying them and running them out, but it doesn't actually work like that. rather, we all collectively need to be wise to them and who they are (and there's my anarchism, again) and work very subtly to undo what they're doing.

so, when you have an undercover pig trying to sow division and dischord, which is essentially fud, one of the best things to do is assert logic. is there evidence for the claim? no, listen - this is important, because the undercover pigs assume you won't do that. they assume they can just make shit up, and that you're too stupid to ask questions. the best antidote for divide and conquer is the reassertion of logic. even when you're drunk. always.

and, if the undercover pig is trying to incite or entrap you then you should get up and get out as fast as possible.

as mentioned, i actually don't think that anything that is being done is having any substantive effect. but, i'm becoming more and more aware that it's actually being done, and this is my official reaction: to know how to identify a pig when they're standing in front of you, and to be clear that this is what is actually happening.