There can be no doubt that, at the G20 protests, at times the police were unnecessarily violent towards non-violent protestors. Yet at other times they were puzzlingly non-violent towards inexcusably violent protestors.
I postulated that one explanation might be that the small number of “protestors” who were theatrically and irrationally violent, were not actually protestors at all. I could think of other explanations, but no better ones, as to why police would not arrest a small, isolated and outnumbered group who were attacking them with sticks.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/04/death_of_a_demo.html#comments
There is a website called Harry’s Place which exists to promote New Labour and a particularly virulent and sometimes openly racist strain of Zionism. That website has this morning put up a post called “Craig Murray Latest Lunacy”, where they assert that even to imagine that our security services might employ agents provocateurs is a symptom of madness.
It is not that Harry’s Place have a naive faith in their political masters. It is rather that they are engaged in a cynical attempt to manipulate public opinion. What do they expect us to believe that 4,500 people at MI5 actually do for a living, and why is it Top Secret?
“two British SAS soldiers were caught dressed as Arabs, with explosives and massive arsenal of weapons.[1] Why would the British be complicit in orchestrating terror in the very city in which they are to provide security? What would be the purpose behind this?”…
http://tinyurl.com/dmxzos
Further to the comments above about the ‘Inspector Chris Dreyfus’ case (he was named by George Galloway as a suspected agent provocateur in an open letter to the Home Secretary), I’ve written a follow-up piece that may be of interest.
See:
TWO Dreyfus Affairs: From Hero to Zero
at
http://sydwalker.info/blog/2009/05/27/two-dreyfus-affairs-from-hero-to-zero/
Feedback welcome