Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informantThese types of abuses of power could only happen when Republican's are in power.
A paid FBI informant was the man behind a neo-Nazi march through the streets of Parramore that stirred up anxiety in Orlando's black community and fears of racial unrest that triggered a major police mobilization.
That revelation came Wednesday in an unrelated federal court hearing and has prompted outrage from black leaders, some of whom demanded an investigation into whether the February 2006 march was, itself, an event staged by law-enforcement agencies.
The FBI would not comment on what it knew about the involvement of its informant, 39-year-old David Gletty of Orlando, in the neo-Nazi event. In court Wednesday, an FBI agent said the bureau has paid its informant at least $20,000 during the past two years.
Informants can sometimes be useful but the line needs to drawn when you take the chance that by doing something like this it could easily have incited a riot where police would have used deadly force against the counter-demonstrators.
Of course, you would have to care about something like that happening to the counter-demonstrators not to want to take that risk.
Orlando Sentinel
