In light of these comments by Limbaugh, let's remember the Montebello provacateurs.

[leftupnorth]

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248608

OTTAWA – Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que.

Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but this time the alleged "agents provocateurs" have been caught on camera.

A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young men, their faces masked by bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in front of a line of police in riot gear. At least one of the masked men is holding a rock in his hand.

The three are confronted by protest organizer Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Coles makes it clear the masked men are not welcome among his group of protesters, whom he describes as mainly grandparents. He urges them to leave and find their own protest location.

Coles also demands that they put down their rocks. Other protesters begin to chime in that the three are really police agents. Several try to snatch the bandanas from their faces.

Rather than leave, the three actually start edging closer to the police line, where they appear to engage in discussions. They eventually push their way past an officer, whereupon other police shove them to the ground and handcuff them.

Late Tuesday, photographs taken by another protester surfaced, showing the trio lying prone on the ground. The photos show the soles of their boots adorned by yellow triangles. A police officer kneeling beside the men has an identical yellow triangle on the sole of his boot.

Kevin Skerrett, a protester with the group Nowar-Paix, said the photos and video together present powerful evidence that the men were actually undercover police officers.

"I think the circumstantial evidence is very powerful," he said.

The three do not appear to have been arrested or charged with any offence.

Police confirm that only four protesters were arrested during the summit – two men and two women. All have been charged with obstruction and resisting arrest.

Veteran protester Jaggi Singh, who is helping to circulate the video as widely as possible, said all four of those arrested are known to organizers and are genuine protesters.

"But we see very clearly in that video three (other) men being arrested . . . How do (police) account for these three people being taken in, being arrested? Where did they go?" Singh said.

"I have no hesitation in saying they were police agents . . . and they were caught red-handed."

Singh, a member of the Montreal-based No One is Illegal, believes the agents were meant to provoke a confrontation and give the police an excuse to use some of their "toys," such as tear gas and rubber bullets.

"To a certain extent it's self-fulfilling logic. You provide police with this kind of equipment and they end up using it and one way to justify it is to plant some people that toss a rock or two."

Neither the RCMP nor the Surete du Quebec would comment on the video or even discuss generally whether they ever use the tactic of employing agents provocateurs.

"I cannot answer your question because I don't have the information," said Const. Kane Kramer, a spokesman for the RCMP at the summit.


Video of the incident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

Turns out the provacateurs were wearing the same exact footwear the cops were. Amateurs.

Edited to add this news report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwpktK35UTE

[melody]

1. Provocateurs were the rule rather than the exception in the 70s

The old semi-paranoid (okay, actually stone paranoid but she saw patterns others didn't because of it) writer Mae Brussell found evidence that half the old SLA was made of nothing but ap's.

[leftupnorth]

2. Really? This kind of thing is troubling to say the least.

The entrenched corporatist power elite are not going to go quietly.

[melody]

3. George Bush built the CIA from the inside out. The man is a sociopath.

There isn't anything he hasn't done with psyops.

Whenever anyone suggests this is paranoia, I suggest they read the public record.

[newmajority]

4. What's even scarier is that some right here on DU think the CIA are heroes.

I've even seen posts censored that spoke truthfully about those thugs.

[melody]

5. There are two factions

One of them is paranoid, run by military-industrial Singlaub types and scary as hell.

There is the "new generation" that Democrats tried to create. But you know ... as does anyone that really
studies the matter ... the right-wing faction is nothing more than the global Mafia with badges. They run on
blackmail, murder, greed and terror. They always have. They're not alone -- the MI5 and various other organizations
are every bit as bad.

[newmajority]

6. Yeah, I know the origins of the CIA.

All the same names from the Union Bank crowd that funded Hitler, oddly enough. Or in other words, the original lineup of the Bush Crime Family.... Prescott Bush, the Harrimans, the Browns, the Dulles Brothers, etc.

[melody]

7. Bingo - exactly n/t

[ConsAreLiars]

8. "The Realist" mag is now being scanned and put online.

http://www.ep.tc/realist/

Not sure if any of Mae Brussell's rants are up yet, by there's a whole lot of breaking-free-from-the-brain-jailors stuff already up.

[melody]

9. That's fantastic!! Thanks for the link!

I can throw away all the musty paper ones now. lol