What is this “Austin Affinity Group” that Brad and David are allegedly part of?
The media have created their own misleading definitions for the group Brad and David traveled from Austin with: a “cell”, a “protest group that planned to use incendiary devices to destroy property or injure police,” and in one KHOU Houston article, a counter-terrorism specialist for Austin-based Stratfor states, “it was the Fortune 500 protest in Austin at the turn of the century when the anarchy group Austin Affinity may have first burst onto the local scene.” An affinity group is actually a generic term for a small protest group and no such named organization exists in Austin. In fact, this speculation seems to be part of FBI efforts to create a larger conspiracy out of nothing.
