Canadian Police Use Provocateurs to Incite Violence During Vancouver Olympic Protests?

News coverage of peaceful anti-Olympic protests downtown Vancouver, B.C. Canada, taking a turn for the worst when "protesters" dressed in black with masks, began rioting.
The group, resembling the paid provocateurs in the WTO riots in Seattle in 1999, the Black Block, were allowed to smash windows of the Hudson's Bay Company, other establishments, and attack other peaceful protesters while the Canadian RCMP Police stood by and did very little.
The Canadian police (RCMP) and CSIS (Canadian Spy Intelligence) have a long history of using agent provocateurs (secret police used to incite violence and to disrupt demonstrations) and the incident appears to have the same MO.

The video is reminiscent a protest gone bad, in Montebello, Quebec, Canada, but this time the peaceful protesters exposed the agent provocateurs and showed them to be Canadian police dressed up in the black masks and black clothes, ones again.

Here is footage of peacful demonstrators exposing the Zionist New World Order jack booted thugs of the Zionist police state in Montebello Quebec:

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

The 2010 Olympic protests range from being about the province of British Columbia having the highest child poverty rate in Canada, to the major homeless problem in Vancouver, to the Premier, Gordon Campbell shutting down schools and hospitals. Native indians are also protesting about what they claim are land right infringements.

B.C. currently has the lowest minimum wage in the country.

And check out this report in the local Vancouver media:

Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit won't rule out agents provocateurs
By Travis Lupick

The RCMP-led security force for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games won't rule out the use of agents provocateurs to incite protesters to commit illegal acts.

Speaking on behalf of the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit, Cpl. Jen Allan said the ISU is charged with ensuring people's safety. We are not in a position to detail a specific operational plan as to how we are going to fulfill that obligation, Allan explained to the Georgia Straight in a telephone interview.

She reiterated the ISU's assurance that all Olympic security operations will be carried out in line with Canadian laws and Canadian values.

Robert Holmes, president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, told the Straight he received a similar response when he raised the issue with the ISU.

Holmes recalled an incident that occurred in August 2007 at a North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Quebec. Video that was later posted on YouTube caught three undercover officers attempting to incite violence in order to delegitimize the peaceful protest, Holmes claimed. Quebec provincial police later admitted that three of its officers posed as protesters, but denied they were agents provocateurs.

Watch activists confront three individuals at an August 2007 protest in Montebello, Quebec. Provincial police later admitted that three of its officers did pose as protesters.

I would hope that we don't get here the same kind of stuff that they experienced in Quebec with the G8 meeting and the Montebello conference between Bush and Harper, Holmes said.

Back then, NDP MPs Peter Julian (BurnabyNew Westminster) and Libby Davies (Vancouver East) called for a public inquiry into the agents provocateurs allegations. The Conservative government did not act on their request.

In a July 15 interview with the Straight, Julian described the Quebec provincial police's actions as disgraceful, but noted that the RCMP was not involved in the controversy.

I think there is a greatly lessened chance of this happening [in Vancouver] because of what happened in Montebello, Julian said. I think the RCMP is well aware that it just completely blew up in the QPP's face.

Holmes said that the BCCLA asked the ISU point-blank for a guarantee that agents provocateurs would not be used during the Games. He recalled the ISU responded that all plans were confidential.

That's not comforting, he said.

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[xianapple]

@UltimateWarrior65 The black block are not police officers. Many of whome are locals who received the support from some very well respected Anarchist - Most notable Frank Lopez who is under here on YT as Stimulator. He even has on his website interviews with Black block members were him and the members explain why they smashed in windows and other acts. As well on Co-op media there are other videos like this from others who did this.

[maureenOWW]

@contactlenssolution 'Department store window glass is usually at least half an inch thick - very hard to break. The police were there days earlier replacing the glass with a thin, hybrid material that would allow the undercovers to break the window with little difficulty,' AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAROFLCOPTE­RAHAHAHAHALOLLLLLL!

You know you're MENTALLY ILL, don't you? Specifically, Delusional Paranoia. See help from a mental health professional. Or just kill yourself. Either way STFU you dozy cunt.

[mothman64]

@xianapple Have you seen the video of Police Provocateurs in Montebello Quebec?

[alexvjc]

haha Chris Brown

[PSD888]

@contactlenssolution Anyway, don't you think, if the police were seen to be replacing a windowat Hudson Bay Company, people would ask what the pigs are doing??? I mean, come on, seriously, even if they were not uniformed how did you manage to indentify them as pigs?

[PSD888]

Anyway, final comment, I promise...lol! Black Bloc is a tactic not a group. It is a tactic than can be used with our without property damage etc.

The Black Bloc is just that, anarchists dressed in black, covering their faces and going on a protest in numbers...so fuck! Are other protesters (the more fluffy ones) saying that they do not have the right to express their politics and point of view because of the way they look or the flags/banners that they hold?

[PSD888]

@contactlenssolution Where is the evidence of this so-called window pane being replaced with a more brakeable one?

If it was by some miracle true, then that idea failed miserably as the window did not break so easily. I have seen many windows break in different situations (mostly drunk people around town) and they smash in the same way as the Hudson window! Does this mean that there is some conspiracy to piss the public off about late night revellers?Glass breaks, it is fragile...get over it!

[PSD888]

In the U.K., the pigs sent a pig infiltrator into the "Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army" (CIRCA), who are probably some of the most peaceful protesters out there, does this mean that the clowns are now state stooges and "agent provocateurs"???????? Think twice mate!

[PSD888]

Anyway, is it not the best way for the state to discredit the growing use of the Black Bloc tactic and other more conventional protest methods by creating all of these rumours about "agent provocateurs" in order to split the anti-capitalist movement, create a feeling of paranoia, makeothers think twice about becoming active and create a odd kind of public image?

All the Quebec video shows are two pigs dressed in black as infiltrators (monitors/evidence gatherers) and not "agent provocateurs"!

[PSD888]

Has it ever occured to you that all of these so-called "Black Bloc conspiracies" are just like most other conspiracy theories just that, theories? I mean where is the proof that any of the Black Bloc demos, peaceful or othwerise, are organised by the police or contain "agent provocateurs"??? Contain infiltrators, maybe but, that is not the same as an "agent provocateur".

[PSD888]

Police infiltrators are there to track riots and rioters and to gather evidence (just as they do with organise criminal groups such as the mafia etc.), they do not incite them by ways of using "agent provocateurs"! The police do incite riots however, when they begin to assault protesters who are Black Bloc or otherwise and Black Blocers react. Simple law of nature, you piss someone off and they react!

[PSD888]

The police track every protest movement going, every one, peaceful or otherwise!

Also, you guys are just judging every Black Bloc on the basis of one Black Bloc demo in Quebec.

Wether the police had infiltrators there or not, there still would have been property damage because people go on protests for a common reason, they are all pissed off with something and in the case of the Black Bloc, they were just more pissed off and hyped up than others and decided to let there rage out!