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Canadian Government Discredit Demonstrators?

By on Dec 17, 2010

Is the Canadian government using police as agents provocateurs to discredit demonstrators? And if so, does this only take place in Canada? Watch this and tell us what you know.

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  • tony

    This is not only common, it’s an essential state strategy to suppress all forms of rebellion –benign or otherwise. The GOP convention in Minneapolis is a perfect example. Look up Brandon Darby if it piques your interest. This man has ruined the lives of more than one friend.

  • Geoff

    This is the sort of thing Oliver North would call, “neat.” You get to undermine the unions and build support for a police state at the same time. Everybody involved in street protests needs to be as savvy as these union folks were: kudos!

  • tony

    If organizations maintain a commitment to mutual autonomy and nonviolence, these moles can be held at bay. I think the main objective of these operations is to sow paranoia among well-meaning groups, and to provide a spectacle for the TV cameras.

  • jo6pac

    Yep, just a normal event like the rock throwing in San Jose, Calif. during a visit by then president nixon. Good Luck and a great catch by the demostrators.

  • jack

    this news is a couple years old – but should not be forgotten – I’ve shared this clip with many so-called progressive liberals as a point in fact to support my contention that false flag events are SOP by virtually all authoritarians – take a hint, if you’ve taken the lemming leap over Wikileaks – think again – a lot of info. is emerging to support the contention that it’s another psyop – in particular, look at which nation is not being negatively impacted by the leaks:

  • tony

    I think it’s worth taking a look at the recent bombings in Italy as well. ANSA, the Italian news agency, is reporting that an anarchist group has claimed responsibility. The group in question claims that this is an erroneous assertion. NPR, AP and most cable news organizations are already reporting ANSA’s line as fact.

    There were a lot of laughs when the DHS recently conducted a practice exercise in order
    to assess security threats from “pot growers” and “eco-terrorists”. But I think it’s a way
    of establishing a false precedent, and a hint at what’s to come.

  • Claude

    I think these tactics are pretty much standard procedures now in the western world. In Canada again, they used a variation of that same trick during the G20 Conference in Toronto. The police left one of their vans to be vandalized, in a place and situation where it was obvious that it would be vandalized, and a group of “protesters” were allowed to escape to rampage in the streets of downtown for very long minutes with impunity. The governments and police forces throughout the world have become really good at rigging civilian protest. I happens in the U.S., in Canada, everywhere where the elite is wise (in the sens of corrupted) enough to sabotage people’s efforts to organize themselves.

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