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There are a few possibilities concerning what Evan might be and what his agenda is:
 
(i) Evan is perhaps just a guy who likes to argue and doesn't ever care whether the things he says on day is consistent with what he said the day before. Perhaps he's just a control freak who has some severe psychological problems and feels like he needs to dominate other people to compensate for his own distress. In this case, he is no threat to the movement as a whole, but should be dealt with. It is likely that singling him out at the GA wouldn't work in this case as it would only fuel his psychological distress. The best way to respond to this would be to expel him from the web committee.
 
(ii) Evan is an agent of imperialism. In this case, he is not paid by the State, but by private organizations that want to harm the Occupy Houston movement. He might also not even be a paid agent, but just himself interested in harming the movement. There are plenty of nutcases in the Tea Party that will try to stir up trouble inside of an Occupy Houston movement. In this case, he is harming the movement in order to protect the class interests of imperialism.
 
If (ii) is the case, then there are a variety of methods he might use:
 
(a) telling rumors about others, refusing to work with the group, setting people up against eachother, and physically hurting other people.
(b) taking over the organizational bodies of the Occupy Houston movement. He has of course already done this by taking over Facebook and the web committee. He might try to persuade some of the less experienced or new people to get on his side so that he can retain control over the movement.
(c) acting as an agent provacateur by advocating methods of action that have no strategy and would directly get people arrested. In this case, he is likely to do whatever he can to get people to do stuff that would give HPD an oppurtunity to evict the occupiers.
 
However, there is a third possibility, though it is highly unlikely:
 
(iii) Evan is a paid agent by either the FBI or the HPD. This however, is highly unlikely, because he hasn't done anything that would suggest that. Yes, he has posted those nasty remarks on Facebook; yes, he has tried to take over Facebook; yes, he has stirred up anger in the movement. These are all things that an undercover cop would likely to do to try to harm a movement; however, the essential things, such as provoking people to do stuff that would seriously harm the movement is not something I am aware that he has done. He hasn't tried to fish people for information (i.e. asking questions such as "do you think that the government should be overthrown") that could be used against them. If he were an HPD agent, he would likely fish people for information, get involved in the radical study group and snoop around in it, and advocate that people do stupid things like set stuff on fire or use violence. So it is unlikely that Evan is a paid agent of the HPD.
 
Judging from this, our only option is thus (i) or (ii). It might be a mixture of both. We might consider having a meeting in order to discuss how we might respond to this.