I've talked before about COINTELPRO and how it still operates today.
I was just listening to the song Wake Up by RATM
and wanted to look up the counterintelligence document that Zack is quoting in the song.
"Through counterintelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them... "
Apparently, it was written almost specifically for the black panthers and Martin Luther King.
Now hailed as a hero of equal rights and peace, to the U.S. Government of the time he was an enemy of the state and a target of cointelpro.
So check out the breadth of the Church committee's findings, supposedly ending in 1976, and just believe, for a second, that it never really ended, just was made completely eyes only and in fact still operates today, right here in Canada and anywhere in the world that the U.S. has a strategic interest.
Do you think it's a wise policy for the RCMP and CSIS to allow these illegal domestic intelligence techniques to be applied by Americans in Canada to legitimate activist and protest groups in Canada based on whether or not the ideology of these groups is antagonistic to the favored ideology of the current Canadian government?
Do you think the RCMP should try to break apart groups trying to strengthen social medicare, like they did in the 60's in Saskatchewan? Are other social change/activism groups valid targets for domestic police infiltration and subversion? Is it acceptable for an officer or team employed by municipal/provincial/federal governments to use various well documented tactics to break apart "fringe" groups (read: minority) involved in legitimate activism or protest regardingsuch as queer, first nations, anti capitalism, social justice, women's issues, welfare reform, strikers, etc? Are psyops tactics such as, red baiting, agent provocateurs, defamation, re-direction, and straight up harrassment based on group affiliation valid in a democracy? Does a team of all male, white, middle class, right wing boozers really represent our nation to the extent that they can use dirty methods to thwart activists and social groups with impunity??
The KKK has been doing it for years, why not?
Oh wait, this is the TV and ME generation with memories as long as Dory the bluefish, so let's refresh your memories a bit about what kind of evidence planting and covert operations against legally gathered citizen's has occurred in the past by police working not for LAW but for the special interest of money....
"The Mounties carried out extensive security service work since the force was reconstituted in 1920, when it merged with the Dominion Police and became the federal police agency solely responsible for national security. Between the wars, this work was overwhelmingly directed at the Communist Party and labour and the left more generally.[2] In 1962, the branch was renamed the Directorate of Security and Intelligence, and in 1970 it became the RCMP Security Service.[3] In the 1960s, it targeted Quebec nationalists, particularly the militant Front de libération du Québec. As a result of illegal tactics used by the Security Service and consequent scandals surrounding the RCMP, intelligence work was transferred to a new agency, CSIS, in 1984." link
Interestingly enough, as I finish up adding reference links to this article, I find a connection to my previous article on Marc Emery, as he seems to have done similar research in the past....
I believe in Canada there is no true justice anymore, corruption is permeated throughout the legal and political structure. But that's just my opinion.
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