We're Looking for a Few Good Moles

In preparation for the 2008 GOP convention in St. Paul, the FBI is trying to get people with a certain look and social network to infiltrate local protest groups as paid informants for the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. Well, what else did you expect in a post-9/11 police state?

This kind of thing has happened before. In fact, these moles have even been known to encourage violence on the part of protesters so that police actually have people to arrest.

But that seems too complicated, doesn't it? Why not just use a simple show of force like the Chinese did at Tiananmen Square?

Thanks, but no tanks. We Americans like to quell political dissent with good, old fashioned subterfuge. Besides, we really don't need any more bad press these days.