{"id":46,"date":"2017-05-09T01:55:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T01:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/?p=46"},"modified":"2018-05-19T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T12:35:37","slug":"pacts-ffchs-support-group-for-tis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/09\/pacts-ffchs-support-group-for-tis\/","title":{"rendered":"PACTS (FFCHS): Support group for TIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PACTS, otherwise known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pactsntl.org\">People Against Covert Torture and Surveillance<\/a>&#8221; is a support group for TIs run by Derrick Robinson out of Hemet, CA.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say that they&#8217;re really noteworthy apart from apparently being a sizeable group of TIs who regularly hold talks and conference calls.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick also puts out a <a href=\"http:\/\/wg4p.r.ca.d.sendibm2.com\/na5wfgzwvf.html\">weekly newsletter<\/a> that contains TI &#8220;news&#8221;, schedules of events, personals ads, suggestions, and etc. The newsletter is mildly entertaining and informative to keep up with the current state of the TI community if you&#8217;re wanting to do that. The conference calls can also be entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the pamphlet that Derrick just put out:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/p6FfE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/p6FfE\">PACTS, International Pamphlet<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With all that said, there is always some drama surrounding TIs. Our favorite TI Bryan Tew thinks (from his elite training as a government contractor trained in lie detection) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bryan.tew.9\/posts\/10155059300299909\">that Derrick Robinson is a CIA agent<\/a>\u00a0(or something like that). Also <a href=\"https:\/\/mstmha.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/04\/more-debate-within-the-ffchs-freedom-from-covert-harrassment-and-surveillance\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PACTS isn&#8217;t the first TI group that Robinson has been involved with. Previously he was head of FFCHS (&#8220;Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance&#8221;). There was some kind of drama <a href=\"https:\/\/mstmha.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/31\/the-former-president-of-ffchs-derrick-robinson-is-a-thief\/\">involving Derrick, the board, and some funds<\/a>. Please note that I do not have a lot of substantive information or verification about those details, I&#8217;m just highlighting the drama and infighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PACTS, otherwise known as &#8220;People Against Covert Torture and Surveillance&#8221; is a support group for TIs run by Derrick Robinson out of Hemet, CA. I can&#8217;t say that they&#8217;re really noteworthy apart from apparently being a sizeable group of TIs who regularly hold talks and conference calls. Derrick also puts out a weekly newsletter that &#8230; <a title=\"PACTS (FFCHS): Support group for TIs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/09\/pacts-ffchs-support-group-for-tis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about PACTS (FFCHS): Support group for TIs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,5,3],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ffchs","tag-pacts","tag-tew"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}