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BLACK MASKED AGENT PROVOCATEURS AT THE GENOA G-8 SUMMIT Joel Skousen WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF Aug 3, 2001 Copyright Joel M. Skousen Quotations with attribution permitted. A nasty pattern is emerging which lends credence to the suspicions of many observers that almost all the violent acts perpetrated at the various international summits are the work of government sponsored agent provocateurs. During the Seattle riots I quoted one on-the-scene source who observed several things that pointed to police collusion with the few black masked demonstrators who were causing all the vandalism of local businesses. First, the police never attempted to stop them nor apprehend them even when it was clearly in their power to do so. Second, several of the violent perpetrators were seen taking off their masks and blending back into police formations. One was later seen arresting demonstrators, indicating he worked for the police. A similar pattern has been documented at the latest international summit in Genoa, Italy. Here is an account by an on-site witness to the Genoa "Black Bloc," as these agents are now known. He is Stefano Agnoletto, the brother of Vittorio Agnoletto, a high ranking representative of the Genoa Social Forum, a leftist group in Italy. I don't usually quote from leftist groups, but since they are the obvious targets of these agent provocateurs, we need to consider the reasons why. "I arrive to Genoa on Thursday, after an immigrant's rights demonstration of about 50,000 people. There are arrival camps, many, thousands of peaceful people, a marvelous atmosphere...The various groups participating will converge in different points of the city to have a carnivalesque 'siege' against the 'red area' [the downtown zone surrounding the G8 convention, in which demonstrations were prohibited] with street theater, dancing and slogans. At this point, from the beach-front, members of the now infamous 'Black Bloc' arrive. Some are seen chatting with police, others just come out of police crowds. Most of them speak German. They start to break everything. Police and Carabinieri [Italian military police] just stand there. The Black Bloc tries to join in with a group of COBAS workers [COBAS is an Italian trade union]. They beat up one of their leaders, the group manages to stay clear of them with some difficulty. Then the Black Bloc makes head for the first issue area, belonging to the Italian Social Centers... The police goes after them, and demonstrators find themselves attacked first by the Black Bloc and then by the police, which starts to charge violently against all demonstrators... The Black Bloc leaves the square and starts to vandalize the city systematically. 300-400 of the Black Bloc roam Genoa, and whoever guides them seems to know the city very well . . . It's incredible. They move with military discipline, infiltrate everywhere, some leaders shout orders which are promptly followed by the whole group. And, shortly afterwards, police and Carabinieri make their appearance . . To sum it up, two nightmare days. Both the Black Bloc and the police knew what they were doing when they committed this violence. All along, from Friday, they insulted and verbally abused us as they did what they did, someone seems to have brainwashed them. My brother Vittorio told me: It's crazy, it seems we are in Latin America during the '70s [referring to the way the Argentine military went after the Communists]. Maybe even he did not realize fully with whom are we dealing here." It is important to note the similarities between the Seattle and Genoa riots. In both Genoa and Seattle, it is very clear that the vast majority of protesters came peacefully and had no intentions of destroying anything. Yet as in Seattle, the military and police forces on hand in Genoa were ready and armed for major riots. Very few of the police were local. Most were federalized police forces brought in--just like in Seattle. The orders came from the federal level--not local. In both cases, it was a carefully trained cadre of specialists, linked with police, which provided the spark of violence to which the police forces responded with military-style intervention and brutality. It is noteworthy that the police carefully avoided hurting or arresting the real culprits, and delivered severe beatings only to the innocent bystanders who were simply trying to flee the scene. The Seattle case was particularly suspicious because the level of federal involvement, evidence of prior training, and availability of special weapons indicated that the federal government had complete foreknowledge of the kinds of violence to expect--even though there had been no major violence at prior summits. Here's what we can conclude. Somebody wanted violence in order to justify a massive police intervention. Part of the reason was that somebody wanted an excuse to expose these new elite police units to real life training on real people. Most countries, including the US, regularly train for urban warfare, one of the primary aspects of which involves controlling adverse public reaction --an indication that the ultimate aim of that training is local rather than foreign. But there is more. The police forces must have also had some type of off-the-record instructions to deal roughly with the demonstrators--even innocent ones. There is no other way to explain the kinds of brutal beatings meted out to demonstrators who were not resisting in any way. This may indicate some desire to foment anti-police hatred within the ranks of the leftists demonstrators, to incite further social unrest later on. It also may be a way of selectively recruiting and testing special forces that do not object to or balk at this kind of cruelty. In a corrupt military system, a general commitment to "following orders" only goes so far before good men begin to refuse evil orders. All totalitarian forces, whether Hitler's Brown Shirts or Italy's Fascist Black Shirts, recruited thug-like people for their elite units who could be depended upon to crack heads without feeling guilty. Incidentally, if the Powers That Be really wanted to avoid violence altogether they could easily have held this meeting privately, without fanfare at some out-of-the-way location. I think the PTB want these summit forums to be big public affairs as a propaganda tool to promote the globalist agenda and get the public used to submitting to the inevitability of it all (because all the world is going along). Perhaps that is why they must foment violence--so as to put the opposition in an evil light. Agnoletto's last statement is very telling--that his brother, a very experienced Marxist leftist on the international scene, did not realize who he was dealing with. It appears that many on the hard left in Europe still don't realize that the "Third Way" socialists of the NWO are not their allies, but competitors for control of the NWO. Among the NWO globalists, there is a division between the European left faction and the American-British globalists who control the finances of the NWO. But I don't think this was a factional fight between them. If it were, the entire travesty would likely have been orchestrated by the American/British faction, since Italy's PM, Silvio Berlusconi, is on that side of the NWO. However, the majority of Black Bloc rioters were from Germany, which means that Germany's secret services were probably involved. Germany is clearly on the European side of this factional battle for control of the NWO. Apparently, the motives for organizing these violent upheavals at international globalist summits transcend the factional differences. ====================================================== http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1a.html THE TRUTH OF WHO IS CAUSING THE VIOLENCE AT GLOBAL SUMMITS IT IS THE AUTHORITIES THEMSELVES! THE "BLACK BLOCK" "ANARCHISTS" ARE AGENT PROVOCATEURS WHO ORCHESTRATE VIOLENCE TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE HORRIFIC CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBALISATION - AND BUSH AND BLAIR KNOW IT. IF YOU HAVE A STORY TO TELL ABOUT THIS WE WILL POST IT HERE By David IckeIt has been clear from the start that the violence at globalisation protests is orchestrated by the very architects of globalisation - the Illuminati. It is a classic problem-reaction-solution senario in which you use your own agents to start the violence at peaceful protests and then justifiy violence against the peaceful protestors while condemning them as "anarchists". The Illuminati and their front men and puppets like Bush, Blair, and the rest are desperate for the staggering consequences for the "Third World" peoples of dictatorship by global corporation ("globalisation") to be obscured by media concentration on the "violent" protests. Thus the television pictures of violence are a perfect diversion from the debate and exposure of the human genocide, misery, and suffering caused to billions of our fellow brothers and sisters by the Bush-Blair Illuminati agenda of global fascist dictatorship. Below is a sickening account by one who experienced the Illuminati at work in Genoa recently and below that are other stories from Seattle, Barcelona, etc, that we have previously posted on this site. If you have had direct experience of these agent provocateur operations, please send them to us and we will post them also. It would be most helpful if you could send this page to as many people and organisations you can across the net, including the media wherever you are. Thanks, David What the public has not been told - until now - is that those pressing for world government are the same people who are creating the problems to justify it This letter is from Stefano Agnoletto, the brother of Vittorio, spokesperson for the Genoa Social Forum. Dear friends Now, I was in Genoa, I've seen it. Don't believe the news you've seen in the press and on TV It was something insane, a massacre. It is still difficult to tell you what happened between friday and saturday. To do so, I'll use what I've seen together with my dear friends who were present in Genoa with me. I ask you to have the patience to read this message, it really is the chronicle of a nightmare which probably will not reach the mainstream media. I arrive to Genoa on thursday, after an immigrant's rights demonstration of about 50,000 people. There are arrival camps, many, thousands of peaceful people, a marvellous atmosphere (remember the boy scouts?), we discussed, sang and just stayed together. Clergy, activists, volunteers and just normal people, on friday we begin the issue areas in a blockaed city: The various groups partecipating will converge in different points of the city to have a carnivalesque "siege" against the "red area" [The place, in Genoa, where the G8 was held and demonstrations were not permitted] with street theatre, dancing and slogans. At this point, from the beach-front members of the now infamous "Black Block" [supposedly extremist groups blamed for most of the destruction in the city] arrive. Some are seen chatting with police, others just come out of police crowds. Most of them speak German. They start to break everything. Police and Carabinieri [the Italian military police] just stand there. The black block tries to join in with a group of COBAS workers [COBAS is the new Italian Trade union unaffiliated with party politics]. They beat up one of their leaders, the group manages to stay clear of them with some difficoulty. Then the Black Block makes head for the first issue area, belonging to the Italian Social Centers (Centri Sociali. Difficult to translate exactly, call them Community organizations). They arrive armed to the teeth. The police goes after them, and demonstrators find themselves attacked first by the black block and then by the police, which starts to charge violently against all demonstrators. The black block leaves suddenly and appears on the square were the Lilliput network is based (Fair trade, catholic campaign groups ecc). Its members try to peacefully make them leave. The police follows and charges against everyone on the square. Truncheons and tear gas are used indiscriminately. People raise their hands, shout "Peace". The black block leaves the square and starts to vandalize the city sistematically. 300-400 of the Black Block roam Genoa, and whoever guides them seems to know the city very well. Their path crosses every issue area, where the campaigns of our movement are located. It's incredible. They move with military discipline, infiltrate everywhere, some leaders shout orders which are promptly followed by the whole group. And, shortly afterwards, police and Carabinieri make their appearance. Meanwhile, in the issue area where ARCI, ATTAC etc. ("mainstream" Italian 3rd-world campaigning organizations) are located everything is fine. During the early afternoon we decide to leave the boundary with the red zone were we were demonstrating. People start moving towards Dante square. Suddenly, police launches tear-gas from behind our march, causing panic everywhere. Hospitals fill with wounded demonstrators, but many do not go to hospital since police seems to arrest everyone who turns up there. Its evening, people are downbeat, many are angry. Suddenly, no trace of the Black block. At the old city, where the camp of the Genoa social forum is, there's about 10,000 of us. The news of the dead demonstrator reaches us. We are scared, tales of extreme police brutality are told by many people. Young men, nuns start crying. Many people are hurt. One old man is crying with a bandage on his head. He is a retired metal worker. There is Don Gallo, of the San Benedetto (catholic) community group. There is the leader of the mothers of Plaza De Mayo, in Argentina, those women who for years have been looking for their disappeared children: She says she is shaken at what she has seen, it's uncomfortably close to Argentina during the dictatorship. She did not think something similar would happen here. My brother Vittorio (Spokesman for the Genoa Social Forum), Luca Cesarini (leader of the Social Centers) and Bertinotti, the only politician with the courage to come here (the leader of the Italian refounded communist party, sort of the equivalent of Nader in Italian politics) try to calm everyone: They tell us not to come out in small groups, not to accept violent provocations. We decide our answer will be the enormous demonstration the next day, there'll be many of us, peacefully responding to any provocation, whether from the black block or the police. Senator Malabarba tells us he was at the police station. He saw strange people who dressed like the demonstrators, they spoke German and other foreign languages. Most of them come out of the station after exchanging a few words with the police. Suddenly, there is a fire at a bank close to the old city. For 40 minutes, helicopters circle us, but no firefighters or police arrive. At night, one of the camps were we are sleeping, the Carlini, is surrounded by police: They go in and search, doing what you want. People cry. They ask that brutality stop. Police enters, but does not find anything in the camp. Saturday, the demonstration starts, a thousand colors. People from all over the world, farmers, ONGs, workers, people from Kurdistan... all singing, dancing, waving all sorts of flags. On Kennedy Square there is no violence, in fact there is no one there. Suddenly the Black Block appears. Police, with no warning or reason given, divides the demonstration in two parts. A real battle begins. Charges everywhere, people being beaten with truncheons. It seems cops have gone crazy. Metal workers, the youth wing of Rifondazione (the Italian left wing party) are charged. Groups of demonstrators flee and are followed by police. Whoever is isolated is pursued and beaten. Many people are telling of being beaten only for being recognized as demonstrators. Even the Italian correspondent of the Sunday Times is beaten (in today's issue of the paper he tells of his adventure). In a part of the march which so far was quiet, by the sea, suddenly tear gas is fired from the roofs. Panic ensues as people cannot breathe. The Black Block? They appear and disappear, no one stops them. They attack a youth from Rifondazione, wreck his flag, beat him. They throw stones at the spokesman of the Genoa Social Forum They wreck stores, set fire to buildings. Many are armed to the teeth. How on earth they managed to come to Genoa, with soldiers controlling every car? At the head of the march, things are still quiet. The Genoa Social Forum invites everyone to leave calmly, and stay together. We are being led to Marassi, where there are buses with everyone who arrived this morning. We stopped there, and could not go further: On Kennedy Square, there is a war. There are many of us just sitting there. Suddenly, tear gas is used, panic everywhere. We try to get back to the camp of the Genoa social forum. Police trucks pass us by, and policemen in them shout: "we'll kill you all". The second part of the demonstration never arrives to the square. They are charged by police. Many flee to the small streets, towards the hills, where a real man-hunt starts. Saturday night, the demonstration has ended hours ago, the police enters into the press-center of the Genoa Social Forum. They beat up everyone they encounter, with shocking brutality. All they seem to be after are documents (paper, video, pictures ecc.) which tell of what happened in the previous two days. Many of these documents, computers, disks are simply destroyed. The lawyer who coordinates the forum's legal team is arrested. Among the destroyed material, there are the documents this legal team put together as part of the defense of those arrested. Now, even the motives for their arrest are not known. During this "search", with no legal mandate, members of parliament, journalists, lawyers and even doctors are not let in the building. None of us have ever seen the famous weapons shown at the press conference yesterday. Police departs, leaving us with only those wounded and arrested. No one knows what happened to the Black Block. To sum it up, 2 nightmare days. Both the black block and the Police knew what they were doing when they committed this violence. All along, from friday, they insulted and verbally abused us as they did what they did, someone seems to have brainwashed them. And today, we look at the TV and read papers. My god, it seems like a dictatorship. Did everyone miss what we all saw? When I think that many will read this and say "you violent protesters just talk bullshit", I go mad. Please, don't let anyone fool you, find the courage to put your faith in our wonderful police and democratically accountable institutions to question. What happened in Genoa beggars belief. Some inauguration for the new governament. Just to give you a flavour of the spin control effort, do you know what the first version of the official investigation into the death, before the videos appeared, was? Killed by a stone launched by the demonstrators. If you think that many of the documents put together by witnesses have been destroyed during the "search"... the only version left to the public is that, "uncontestable", of the police. Please, forward, print, talk about this document. To everyone, friends, relatives, collegues. The truth has to come out. I beg you, don't look the other way. Thank you Stefano Agnoletto PS: My brother Vittorio (the spokesperson of the Genoa Social Forum) is destroyed. He told me: It's crazy, it seems we are in Latin America during the '70s. Maybe even he did not realize fully with whom are we dealing here. The truth has to come out. |
