Agents provocateurs BUSTED.

[Drake Dun]

Police agents provocateurs exposed in Quebec - because of YouTube!

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfzUO...elated&search=

The original footage.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WT...elated&search=

This is one reason I love the Internet. We are living in an era in which thanks to one guy with a camera, and YouTube, the loathsome antics of the power structure are on exhibit for anybody honest enough to look at them with a steady eye.

Remember this the next time the mass media is wringing their hands over anarchist kids with rocks. Not that real anarchists don't sometimes have rocks, too. :P

It's also comical to watch how these squared-away defenders of the flag can't get their shit straight when trying to imitate genuine dissidents. At least he got the black right, but camo pants and a sideways baseball cap? Apparently he doesn't realize that a kid in a black bloc, a paramilitary white supremacist, and a black gangster are, in fact, three different things.

Who watches the watchers? There has only ever been one answer: the watched.

Drake

[LadyLucretia]

I think that video sharing can definitely increase accountability. I was just watching a video of a guy with his two young kids in a park, who got upset at a group of young teenagers skateboarding. He got up in their faces yelling, and when he walked away and they kept skateboarding, he came back and tried to wrestle one kids board away from him. He was twice the kids size and it was clearly assault. Would this guy ever be held accountable if they hadn't been taping it? Clearly it's not on the same level as the police inciting violence, but it is encouraging that people take interest in these sorts of videos. It makes people think twice about behavior they would otherwise get away scott free with, and because it's citizens posting the videos it's far less like big brother and more like a tech-savvy community watch group.

[CptSternn]

I saw that on the news. It's not the first time that sort of thing has happened. They have tried that here in Ireland as well.