G20: Agent Provocateurs = Entrapment

User 'anonymous' did: report at Sat Aug 22 05:49:47 +0000 2009.

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true When the G20 Meltdown was announced, many of us knew that the police were going to launch a "dark ops" assualt on the protest. The media was foaming at the mouth about "anarchist violence", "killing bankers", "mayhem", and all the rest; they certainly didn't want to be proved wrong. Although many knew beforehand that kettling and police agitators would be used at the protest, we also knew that to miss the festival would mean that we had given up our right to assemble peacefully in the face of the Police State (which many citizens have already resigned themselves to). Thus we were stuck between a rock and a hard place. I am not the only one to have picked up on the presence of agent provocateurs at the G20 Meltdown festival; I refer here to a number of articles/ blogs that have appeared which provide circumstantial evidence of the presence of these agents. The first is richwill (http://400words.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/rbs-rant/ for the original article and links to images and video): "I remain very suspicious about the fact that the RBS, which is right next to the Bank of England, was left completely unguarded at the height of the G20 demonstration. The attack on it has already been used as an excuse to attack social centres around London and arrest a number of people....I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I am of the firm opinion that the attack on the RBS was essentially orchestrated by the police in order to provide the media with images of violent destruction of property. Just look at this photo: *dozens* of photographers, and *no* police. At the time, as anyone who was there knows, the police were *everywhere*. And, as this one shows, the RBS - the country's most hated bank, and a blindingly obvious target - is *right next to the Bank of England*. In this video we can hear the news presenters trying very hard to convincingly explain to themselves and the viewers why it is that the police are standing back and doing nothing while the bank is trashed. And according to someone who actually witnessed the attack:‘There were a load of police further down from RBS who could have EASILY stopped the damage being done. Which for the record was done solely by about 10 people. The rest being a weird circle of cameras, waiting for the next kick. One guy started lighting the blinds on fire. I have footage also of a guy in a suit, maybe a bank worker, or police not in uniform, filming it, smiling, and laughing with another cop up above from the opposite building. They watched on amongst many other policemen with cameras as a fire was attempted to be lit. A photographer blew the small flames out before it got out of hand. Some protesters then went inside. Only after a while did the police then go into the building, and take a load more pictures of us all for their snatching operation later on in the day.' Also, and I may be going slightly bonkers here, look at this clip, and watch the guys provoking the police from about 15 seconds in, two in black and one in white. They seem to be acting, acting in fact with a certain amount of impunity. The guy with the metal bar is by far the most violent of the protestors, and his identically dressed friend seems to be trying to egg the crowd on to more acts of bravado. The guy in white was on the front of several of yesterday's newspapers, sneering in the faces of the police, covered in what appeared to me to be fake blood. Imagine that scene without those three guys, and then watch this. Ring any bells? I suggest that those three protestors are in fact police provocateurs." The "then watch this" richwill is refering to is a classic piece of footage where police provocatuers were caught out at a protest in Montebello, Canada (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow). The police later admitted that they had police officers "undercover" (euphamism or what) at the protest; inciting violence is not working "undercover"; it is actively inciting disorder. For those who think the idea of "agent provocateurs" is a conspiracy theory, here is a substantial piece of the evidence. You need to be fairly naive if you think the police would not use this technique at the G20. Next, Craig Murray wrote in his blog (http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/04/death_of_a_demo.html#comments): "All of which leads me to resurrect this bit I wrote in a comments thread in reply to someone asking why I hadn't mentioned the possibility of agents provocateurs: There was a fascinating and drawn out scene outside the Bank of England yesterday when a distinct group of some thirty were attacking the police, one hitting the police with a long pole. Prominent was a group of young Asian lads. I recognised them because I was crushed up hard for a good while against the same bunch of young Asians outside the Israeli Embassy a couple of months ago, where again they were being inexcusably violent. The very strange thing was that, plainly from Sky's overhead cam, the Police had the ability to isolate and snatch this group of obviously violent individuals, and the police would have had my support in doing so. But they didn't. So who are they?" Indeed. Who are they? Here is the frontpage-winning pic of the infamous RBS window-smashing (the "money-shot" for the journos), which has since disappeared from mainstream sources (funny that). "The 20 red cycles are press photographers, the 5 green ones are protesters.That's not reporting, that's performance art."writes Theresa (http://comediehumaine.blogspot.com/2009/04/fourth-estate.html). The five "protesters" are the police provocateurs mentioned already; their faces not covered and yet they have not been arrested for this damage? With this evidence, they should have been captured by now, right? This would all be fun, conspiratorial discussion for the pub, if there were not four innocent people currently sitting in jail, facing prison sentences. It is our duty to stand by our fellow activists, and see that the State does not destroy these innocent people, who came to express their disgust at the corruption of the State and Big Business through peaceful protest and a bit of a street party. Thus the starting point for those on the streets of London is track these four (unmasked) down and get to the bottom of this. We need the evidence to prove that the Police used "entrapment" to get the reaction they wanted from the crowd. If you have any info on these four, post it here on Indymedia. Lets get Babylondon!

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Did the Met Police use Agent Provocateurs/ Police Agitators during the G20 Meltdown festival? While this may seem far-fetched to the casual observer, it is a commonly-used technique for "protest management" by riot police across the world. It provides the justification for heavy-handed retaliation by the police and media over-reaction. More importantly, those now charged with breaking and entering the RBS bank on 1st April are the innocent dupes of a morally corrupt police operation; a case of entrapment.

G20: Agent Provocateurs = Entrapment

2009-08-22T05:49:47+00:00