In a sane world.
Agents provocateurs are a standard ingredient and they appear at all the major international economic summits. They have been spotted at Seattle in 1999 when rows of police stood by and did not intervene as supposed "black block anarchists" smashed a bunch of windows, thereby ushering in the crackdown against the large peaceful demonstrations, exactly as was done again this week in Toronto.
Agents provocateurs have been spotted in Genoa in 2001 and in Greece, as well as a number of other incidents around the world. Also spotted at these major summits is the excessive police violence against demonstrators and violations of their civil liberties.
As this practice has been admitted to by the Canadian government, we must ask what exactly happened this week in Toronto and who is responsible?
The use of agents provocateurs is a direct attack on the people, an attack on one's own population. It is highly dangerous and it corrupts the police force with brainwashing techniques designed to foster an "us vs. them" mentality. These police state measures, while effective, are immoral and one would hope patently illegal. Civil liberties are still supposed to carry some weight and the force of law. State terrorism against those who exercise the right of free speech should be punishable by long jail terms. Abuses of trust and power of this magnitude cannot go unchallenged, even if the corporate news whores refuse to cover the issue.
Agents provocateurs are not a new phenomenon. A poignant film from 1969 entitled Z shows a plausible scenario where they are used in Paris, but their assault backfires. It's a tense political drama, and worth a look.
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