*US cops and spooks have been performing as agents provocateurs forever—* *certainly since the **Sixties, when they infiltrated the Black Panthers and other * *radical groups, both **to divide and demonize the left (back when we had a left), * *and enable crackdowns **on dissent. Afrocentrist Ron Karenga and "civil rights * *activist" Richard Aoki were agents of the state, deployed against the Panthers; * *Larry Grathwohl was an FBI informer planted in the Weather Underground;* *Donald **DeFreeze, who led the "Symbionese Liberation Army" that kidnapped * *Patty **Hearst, was an asset who slipped the leash; at least one cop was outed* *during the tumultuous "Battle in Seattle" protesting the WTO in 1999; * *and, * *since 9/11, **dissident groups across the board have been routinely infiltrated * *by agents **provocateurs, fanning out from "fusion centers" set up nationwide,* *and perpetrating acts of violence so that the (other) cops could move in with* *their billy clubs and tasers, and "our free press" could sell the * *spectacle. *
*It therefore shouldn't come as a surprise—or be laughed off as a "conspiracy* *theory"—that the rioting in Minnesota was, shall we say, evidently helped along * *by **a member of the St. Paul Police Department: * *https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1266166402521522176 <https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1266166402521522176>* *And, as for those armed "rednecks" standing guard against the would-be* *"looters" there, check out this photo of (what we've been told) are four of* *them. Note that the figure furthest to the right is not a "redneck," since he's* *black; and so that group can't be a renegade quartet of white supremacists,* *as "our free press" wants us to think, whether it's sympathetic to that * *seemingly protective force, or casts them as "deplorables":* *https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2564930403817540&set=p.2564930403817540&type=3&theater <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2564930403817540&set=p.2564930403817540&type=3&theater>* *So what is really going on? While it's unfortunately more than likely that * *a white cop killed **an unarmed black man, since that happens all the time,* *and while the rage over this latest case is wholly understandable, we* *have to wonder why this happened now, and why the "optics" of this* *episode have been manipulated, and "reported," so as to have the national* *audience taking sides. * *Let's just think about the context here. There is, of course, a racial aspect* *to the COVID crisis, as the coronavirus has disproportionately stricken* *people of color; and "our free press" has invidiously played that up, casting* *anti-lockdown protestors as neo-Nazis, whose victims are the black/brown* *poor, who (somehow) need the lockdown to "stay safe." That "liberal"* *slant elides the lockdown's crushing economic impact on the population* *overall—a national (and international) catastrophe that We the People * *should be openly discussing with each other, as most slide ever deeper* *into poverty while just a very few make billions upon billions more, and * *banks and **corporations rake in further billions in "assistance" while the * *ever larger **masses of the unemployed get crumbs (and have a hard time * *getting **them). The "free press" that's supported by those billionaires and* *corporations wants us all supporting them as well, and so does * *everything it can to have us squaring off against each other—black* *vs. white, "red" vs. "blue"—rather than awaken to the common need* *to fight the powers that lord it over all the rest of us. * *Divide and conquer. It's a strategy as old as empire; and right now* *it's far more dangerous to the rest of us than the coronavirus. * *MCM* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W_k64%2BguzOpjmVq%3Dtoa8vzfWrji%2BYZiebm-YOQtqtp%2Byg%40mail.gmail.com.
