Useful Idiots Bin: Sûreté du Québec admits cops posed as protesters at Montebello; John Birch Society, communists converge in opposition to NAU

The "anti-globalization" left and "New World Order" conspiracymongering faux right, especially as represented by Alex Jones, regularly accuse the capitalist elite of employing agents provocateurs and "false flag" ops. In a new twist Sûreté du Québec has admitted that three of its agents were in fact planted amongst the protesters who arrived in Montebello to oppose the third summit of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). TheStar.com reported on August 24:

Quebec provincial police are defending the actions of its three agents who posed as protesters during this week's North American Leaders' summit in Montebello, Que. Insp. Marcel Savard defended the three agents today at a news conference in Montreal and insisted they were not there to provoke demonstrators. He also says one of the officers was given a rock by protesters but the officer had no intention of using it.

After originally denying it, the force has admitted the trio were involved in the protest after a video clip of the them showed up on the popular website, Youtube.com. But the provincial police are denying they were attempting to provoke protesters into violence and say the three officers were planted in the crowd to locate any protesters who were not peacefully demonstrating.

The controversy shows that in an age of proliferating cellphones with video capability, ordinary citizens are poised to become watchdogs of police accountability, experts say.

The video showed a union leader confronting three apparent protesters at the North American Leaders' Summit in Montebello, Que., accusing them of being police officers attempting to incite violence at an otherwise peaceful demonstration. After days of denials, the force admitted Thursday the trio were, in fact, police officers, but not the 'provocateurs' protesters made them out to be. Protesters and the union leader in the video, Dave Coles, note the video clearly shows a fist-sized rock in the hand of at least one undercover officer.

Frankly, I would expect any security force that is detailed to protect heads of state, such as the Canadian Prime Minister and US and Mexican Presidents who were present at the "North American summit," to insert undercover agents into a protest mob. Nevertheless, don't expect angry anarchists, lunatic leftists, and freaked out faux rightists to appreciate such government tactics.

In another twist of events, the venerable anti-communist John Birch Society (JBS), which over the years has published a number of excellent exposes of Soviet strategic deception ala Anatoliy Golitsyn, is converging with its putative enemy to denounce the proposed North American Union, a byproduct of the pro-communist Council on Foreign Relations and allied groups in Canada and Mexico. Fightback, a Marxist organization that has infiltrated Canada's center-left, union-based New Democratic Party, does not rail against regional and world integration per se, but only against the NAU for its failure to implement socialism in the constituent countries:

From August 19th to 21st, the warmonger George Bush and fraudulently elected Mexican president Felipe Calderón will be guests of Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In the secluded town of Montebello, Québec, they will meet with a select group of CEOs and military brass to map out the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). This is a continuation of the effort to increase corporate power through treaties such as NAFTA, FTAA, and WTO, but this time with an added military dimension.

The People's Voice, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Canada, promotes the left nationalist line by likewise railing against the SPP and any attempts to merge Canada into the "US empire":

The Montebello protests will serve to raise awareness of this danger among Canadians. Sooner or later, the Harper Tories will be forced to go to the polls, and their full-scale drive to integrate Canada into the U.S. empire will be the single most critical election issue. The last time an election was held on such terms was the 1988 "free trade" campaign, when corporate money and fear tactics pulled out a victory for the Conservatives, even though more than 60% of voters backed anti-free trade parties. We can't afford to lose again!

In similar fashion, the JBS, while ostensibly pro-capitalist, denounces the NAU on the basis of the proposed merger's assault on "US sovereignty":

The phrase "North American Union" conjures the image of the European Union, truly the prototype for what our elites have planned. One of the first orders of business will be a borderless North America. According to "Building a North American Community" (a Council on Foreign Relations task force report), the playbook for the construction of the North American Union, "Canada and the United States should consider eliminating restrictions on labor mobility altogether and work toward solutions that, in the long run, could enable the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico as well." Full labor mobility throughout North America would mean no borders between the United States, Mexico, and Canada, spelling the end of our nation's independence.

Last year we documented that Washington State Representative Albert F. Canwell once identified Robert Welch, founder of the JBS, as a communist:

The issues were that Robert Welch was not an anti-Communist. He was an opportunist, a world socialist actually, and he was doing a very dishonest job . . . And I found that he had attended the London School of Economics, the top socialist school in the world . . . Another phase of this that I turned up was that Robert Welch was a long-time member of the American Civil Liberties Union . . . Jack Ruby had Welch 's confidential number in his little black book.

Canwell's statements are reprinted in the Disposition of the Canwell Committee Records (page 283), which forms part of the Washington State Oral History Program. In 1947 the Washington state legislature formed the Un-American Activities Committee, chaired by Canwell, a Republican representing Spokane.

While I view the SPP as a Fabian socialist stepping stone to regional government with a mixed, or social democratic, economy, the convergence between left and faux right over elite-driven "stealth integration" demonstrates that both "borderless capitalists" and communists perceive regional government as a battleground for supremacy.