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- From: maxwell@deep-13.gizmo.com
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: How to tell a NARC??
- Date: 28 Feb 94 02:45:55 -0600
- Message-ID: <1994Feb28.024555.1@deep-13.gizmo.com>
-
- In article <2ks0gt$hn0@genesis.ait.psu.edu>, Jah <bpo101@psu.edu> writes:
- > I was just curious for any info anyone may have regarding narcs: what
- > they can and can't do, anything to watch for in a suspected person?
-
- Of course you know that any narc worth its badge will lie to you if you ask
- it if it's a narc.
-
- If the narc is good at its job, you won't be able to tell it's a narc --
- even _after_ you're busted.
-
- HOWEVER: you should be concerned about people who ask to see your grow room
- or ask you to perform illegal acts such as
- 1. scoring drugs for them.
- 2. telling them from whom they can score drugs.
-
- Be concerned if the person seems unusually assertive or pushy. If the
- person seems to know how to manipulate you into saying incriminating things,
- or asks too many questions... be wary. If the person makes you nervous: bail
- out -- at worst you're being overcautious, at best you preserved your freedom.
-
- You should know that narcs *are* allowed to injest illegal drugs, so just
- because some guy smokes a doob' w/ you, it doesn't mean he's "cool".
-
- There is a special case, wrt LSD (and presumably other psychotomimetics). It
- has been suggested that if someone asks you for acid and you think he might be
- a narc, tell him to "Open your mouth and close your eyes." The idea is that
- someone who wants to trip, and trusts you enough to ask you to supply them,
- should trust you enough to provide them with the appropriate dosage. But, so
- the theory goes, a narc, knowing full well the ego bending (or disassociative
- or psychotomimetic-- pick your fave term) effect of LSD will refuse the OYM&CYE
- offer because he fears the possible loss of his self- censorship and the
- subsequent possibility of outing himself.
-
- There is some validity to this (for instance I'd be very surprised if a narc
- would ever knowingly use LSD and xtc at the same time...) but there are some
- major holes, too. In the case of LSD, the narc could simply absent himself from
- the scene before the acid kicks in, or he could surreptitously counter-dose
- himself with thorazine, a drug guarenteed to short circuit acid trips [although
- the effects of thorazine should be fairly easy to discern].
-
- Some other *possible* tip-offs include can include the wearing of fannypacks or
- the presence of a small group of people dressed in very similar clothing,
- moving as a unit. For instance, at Weedstock 92, they found a whole *nest* of
- narcs. They looked like regular hempsters -- one even carried a hempstalk
- walking stick (confiscated, no doubt, from some hapless WOD victim).
-
- These narcs initially outed themselves by their incessant solicitation at the
- event: going from campsite to campsite asking for shrooms, doses and herb.
- Eventually one of the narcs was spotted by a guy who'd been busted by him in
- another state. The organizers soon cordoned off these soulless, contemptable,
- professional liars and confronted them, which was when their "uniform" became
- apparent: several (3,4?) were wearing Arab-style headdress, and they were the
- only ones at the event so dressed. They moved as a group, although their
- separation was btw 5~20 meters so the group was difficult to discern.
- Apparently the headgear made it easier for the DEA spotters across the valley
- to keep them under watch. They all wore fannypacks to, I believe.
-
- As the first group of narcs was isolated, their backup materialized out of
- nowhere, although to the casual observer they appeared to be interested
- gawkers. They too were largely identifiable by a common apparel style, although
- it was a little more subtle. One guy in particular, christened "the Snake", was
- truly amazing-- he pulled off three or four costume changes in the span of
- about 10 minutes! It seeemed like everytime someone blinked, he'd be in a
- different style of dress; it took hours to track and eject him, i believe. So
- be concerned about someone with multiple pairs of sunglasses, T-shirts, and
- hats.
-
- At another event, I witnessed a similar set of characteristics under slightly
- different conditions: the Narcs outed themselves immediately upon arrival, on
- purpose. I guess they didn't want to have to bust anyone. They were all
- dressed essentially the same, carried fannypacks, wore the same color shirts,
- hats and sunglasses and moved as an amorphous unit.
-
- Unfortunately, this advice is mostly good only for public events, not small,
- private encounters.
-
- There is another type of narc that's a bitch to smoke out: the Babe. (called
- the honeytrap in spy novels). Here's the secret of the honeytrap: there aren't
- very many women involved in the scene, so women are welcomed fairly easily and
- unquestioningly; stereotypically beautiful women even more so. It's a major
- problem to deal with because it fucks up the sociology of the group. However,
- there tends to be a correlation between the Babe's apparent "availability" and
- "susceptability" and Narcness. If the female seems to be unattached and appears
- to be seriously wasted and/or sexually available, but moves from group to
- group -- especially if she implies scoring drugs will yield sexual favors --
- watch out. I totally hate the honeytrap, it's extremely effective, and dealing
- with it can very easily generate lots of misogynist fallout. I imagine the best
- way to deal w/ this one is to look for her backup -- if you can find it -- and
- to monitor a "wasted" woman very very carefully, but very very surreptitiously
- and try to determine if she's really as wasted as she appears. lotsa luck. If
- you're concerned, the best bet is to split from her presence. The honeytrap is
- evil. But, Please, don't _assume_ that women are narcs.
-
- Unfortunately, good narcs know all about this stuff and won't make mistakes.
- And even more unfortunately, regular people can seem like narcs if you're
- paranoid or they're clueless fools.
-
- Of course, under NO circumstance should you ever threaten or harm a person you
- suspect of narcitude. EVER. bad karma, bad move, ugly scene. While Narcs are
- subhuman scum unworthy to dine on the contents of your bowels, you will get in
- major legue trouble for fucking w/ them. Let them grow old and die of natural
- causes without any intervention or harm from you and trust God to deal with
- them in his own time. (If there's any justice in the universe they'll be
- reincarnated as veal calves or drug-test monkeys.)
-
- That's the tactics. The strategy is to keep your nose clean, don't deal,
- traffic, or conspire or grow.
-
- Any input from the clueful?
-
- herbally.max
- mmonningh@igc.apc.org
- dir imi.
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