Thursday, August 23, 2007

Montebello's Grassy Knoll?

This has been circulating for a few days now and it is really something that needs to be cleared up. The video below shows a confrontation between CEP President Dave Coles and 'protesters' accused of being police officers in Montebello Quebec.



The photo below adds weight to the theory that the 'protesters' were actually "agents provocateurs" sent by someone. It certainly appears to show that the 'protesters' accused of being police officers and the police officers themselves are wearing identical boots.



Additionally, a retired Ottawa police officer who was in charge of overseeing demonstrations at one time has weighed in with
"Well, if they weren't police, I think they might well have been working in the best interests of police."


Both the RCMP and the Surete du Quebec have completely denied that the people arrested were police officers or were working with police and in Parliament opposition leaders are calling for investigations.

But this should not be a complicated issue. One good journalist should be able to do the 'investigation' in a day or two. If these people were arrested, there should be an arrest report that says who they are. The only way the police could refuse to release those names would be if they were minors - and they quite obviously were not.

Now, it is also quite possible that they will say they were 'let off with a warning' or 'taken into custody and released' so there is no police report. This response, in any case, would be damning. If the police say that they took into custody protesters who had threatened violence at a summit attended by three national leaders and then released them without even getting their names it means one of two things. It means that they are lying or it means that they have committed an unforgivable sin in post 9/11 North America.

So, assuming that there is a police report, and the men's names are available it should be easy enough to find out who they are, where they came from, and why they were there. There are alot of good journalists in this country, get to work and if you are stonewalled report on that. The longer these questions remain unanswered the more damning it will be for the authorities involved.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'd be very interested to know the answer to this particular question.