RAT Lefty Conspiracy Theorists?

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In a message dated 12/4/99 8:54:39 AM Central Standard Time, scrdchao@nni.com 
writes:

<<  Okay rob, You're right oin this one.
 
 Draft 2 of my note to the RAT-List ( which should replace Draft 1, draft 1
 having been excised) should read:
 Based on prior activist experiences while in Seattle  during the Gulf War,
 Mr. Rothbart wolud like to raise the possibility with his esteemed
 theatrical colleagues that the vionce attributed to "anarchists" ( of which
 larger tribe the aforementioned Mr. Rothbart generally numbers himself
 among, although he , himself does   not  support violence and would ,
 further, like to point out that  the are as many versions of Anarchism  as
 there are types of Celestial Seasonings Tea) was  in fact generated by
 federal or state goverment infiltrators of said activist group . The
 infiltrators were positioned carefully in the various activist  groups over
 the course of the last year of planning meetings about WTO. Their sole
 purpose, which they have successfully achieved, was to create riots and
 riot-like conditions in the middle of an otherwise peaceful demonstration
 of the WTO conference in Seatlle, thereby serving to simultaneously  shift
 the tenor of the debate from the actual needs of working class people
 while discrediting the movement as a whole with their extremist, violent
 acts.
  >>

But the question still remains:  do you have first hand eye-witness acounts?  
Second hand?  How does one verify the validity of these claims?  If you are 
going to make a statement, you have to defend it.  I'm not an anarchist, the 
only thing you and I have in common is we fall left of center.  And I hate it 
when progressives come off like conspiracy theorist wackos from the extreme 
right.  The scenario you describe is not beyond the realm of possibility.  
Now, defend it.  With evidence and eyewitness accounts, media accounts, etc.  
Not just "It's possible that the man could have starte the riots himself to 
make himself look good and us look bad."