OR JUST ONE NEW RCMP ILLUSION
EDWARD PICKERSGILL
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
4 June 2006
In the 1970s Canada's RCMP was up to its eyeballs in illegal activity. They broke into the offices of the Parti Quebecois and stole that Party's membership lists. They burned down a barn in Quebec because it was rumoured there would be a meeting in the barn between radical independentistes and representatives of America's Black Panther Party. (The RCMP of that time could not plant "listening devices" in a barn without a source of electricity.) Since its inception the RCMP has been a proponent, in the true British sense, of doing whatever it takes to get the job done. No matter what, the Mounties always get their man - legally or illegally.
Mountie misdeeds were investigated by their owners, the Canadian government, and course adjustments were initiated to diminish the possibility of new embarrassments. The cloak and dagger spy part of the RCMP was put in the hands of a newborn thing called CSIS (the Canadian equivalent of the C.I.A. and/or the KGB). Then CSIS got caught in the same kind of misdeeds, putting operatives inside ultra-rightwing nazi groups such as Canada's "Heritage Front". And the territorial disputes between the RCMP and CSIS became a brand new kind of embarrassment.
Undercover operatives placed by either or both the RCMP and/or CSIS have tended to be classic "agent provocateurs": They manufacture adventures. So once again there was a need for course adjustments and redesign. The Canadian government instituted new police powers and then formal linkages between the RCMP and CSIS. And now Canada and its police forces (national and international) are well positioned to perform new misdeeds on a scale to match their counterparts in the U.S.
The circling is complete.
In the past couple of days the RCMP and CSIS have saved Canada from international terror by arresting 12 adults and five minors who were going to conduct some explosions in southern Ontario. This band of al queda inspired terrorizers are said to have been in possession of three tons of fertilizer which is three times as much as was used by Americans to blow up that federal building in Oklahoma City.
And where did the terrorizers get the three tons of explosive materials? Why from an undercover operative of the RCMP/CSIS crew. He had infiltrated the loosely knit group of terrorizers and made the arrangements for them. No sooner did the RCMP/CSIS people deliver the goods than they busted the terrorizers for possessing it.
Back in early May the head of CSIS informed a government committee that terrorists will be making attacks inside Canada. How could Mr. Judd be so right, eh? Must be one hell of a sharp spy catcher guy for sure. His presentation of the need for increased budget could not have come at a more appropriate time, eh?
Canada's spy guys are now treading water in the big league war against terror and they got there by creating a terror crisis worthy of attention by the likes of Tony Blair and George Bush. They must be bustin' at the seams with pride, all for the price of a cargo container of ammonium nitrate which probably has no real terrorizer's finger prints on any of it.
The history of RCMP and CSIS continues to be consistent. And the great thing for them is they've announced there are some fifty groups inside Canada just like the one they just busted. So they'll be singing it out loud and clear: 49 bottles of fear on the wall, 49 bottles of fear and if one of those bottles should happen to fall there'll be 48 bottles of fear on the wall... 48 bottles of fear.
Undercover operatives placed by either or both the RCMP and/or CSIS have tended to be classic "agent provocateurs": They manufacture adventures. So once again there was a need for course adjustments and redesign. The Canadian government instituted new police powers and then formal linkages between the RCMP and CSIS. And now Canada and its police forces (national and international) are well positioned to perform new misdeeds on a scale to match their counterparts in the U.S.
The circling is complete.
In the past couple of days the RCMP and CSIS have saved Canada from international terror by arresting 12 adults and five minors who were going to conduct some explosions in southern Ontario. This band of al queda inspired terrorizers are said to have been in possession of three tons of fertilizer which is three times as much as was used by Americans to blow up that federal building in Oklahoma City.
And where did the terrorizers get the three tons of explosive materials? Why from an undercover operative of the RCMP/CSIS crew. He had infiltrated the loosely knit group of terrorizers and made the arrangements for them. No sooner did the RCMP/CSIS people deliver the goods than they busted the terrorizers for possessing it.
Back in early May the head of CSIS informed a government committee that terrorists will be making attacks inside Canada. How could Mr. Judd be so right, eh? Must be one hell of a sharp spy catcher guy for sure. His presentation of the need for increased budget could not have come at a more appropriate time, eh?
Canada's spy guys are now treading water in the big league war against terror and they got there by creating a terror crisis worthy of attention by the likes of Tony Blair and George Bush. They must be bustin' at the seams with pride, all for the price of a cargo container of ammonium nitrate which probably has no real terrorizer's finger prints on any of it.
The history of RCMP and CSIS continues to be consistent. And the great thing for them is they've announced there are some fifty groups inside Canada just like the one they just busted. So they'll be singing it out loud and clear: 49 bottles of fear on the wall, 49 bottles of fear and if one of those bottles should happen to fall there'll be 48 bottles of fear on the wall... 48 bottles of fear.
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