CONTENTS
(1) COMMENTARY
(2) RCMP LIST COUP D’ETAT AS THREAT, OTTAWA CITIZEN, September 13, 2010
(3) SOME POLITICIANS UNDER FOREIGN SWAY, CSIS, June 23, 2010
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(1) COMMENTARY
The RCMP have put the risk of a coup d’état on the list of four threats to Canada (item #2).
“Military historian Edward Luttwak says,
“A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder”, thus, armed force (either military or paramilitary) is not a defining feature of a coup d’état.” (wikipedia)
I’d say that coup d’états happen when the powers-that-be want more power and control than they already have. Or, they feel a threat to their power and agenda.
What would threaten them, in today’s world? . . . Why did the RCMP list coup état? . . . Answer one of the questions, you’ve answered both.
Growing dissatisfaction among growing numbers of “peasants” would be a threat to the powers-that-be. Sufficient dissatisfaction, large enough numbers, intention . . . but that would be called a “revolution”, not a coup d’état.
So let’s see. The RCMP say the threat of a coup d’état exists. Earlier, I and others have said that we have corporatocracy, not democracy in Canada. Which means that the coup d’état has ALREADY TAKEN PLACE (“the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder”).
What does the RCMP statement mean then? Does it mean that there is a threat of EVEN MORE coup d’état-ing?
To answer that, put yourself into the shoes of the powers-that-be (the ones doing the coups). What do THEY see? . . . I see coup d’état . . . they see revolution. We are viewing the same world, but through a different set of eyes. A power struggle between us and them.
I was astounded to hear “coup d’etat” used in the media, from the RCMP. . . . But why the surprise? I have been saying that the success of the opposition to the tar sands, the success in protection of water, etc., threatens the corporate agenda. That “revolution” threatens the corporate agenda. When I stop to think, as a population moves toward revolution, yes, that is when coup d’états happen. The population wakes up to what has been happening, they stop being sheeple, the powers whose interests are threatened must resort to military/police (violence) to impose their will.
In this network we have documented the growing military/police state in Canada. What is that other than the signs of a coup d’état? But is that the coup d’état that the RCMP are thinking of?
So is there evidence of dissatisfaction and unrest, IN LARGE ENOUGH NUMBERS to trigger pre-emptive (that’s what it would be), MORE coup état-ing by large corporations working with their quislings?
Another question: if the RCMP see potential coup d’état, where does that leave THEM?
We’re all in this together. I think we need to understand the situation and share it. Otherwise we, as Canadians, can’t solve it.
Back to Coup d’état / Revolution:
LARGE ENOUGH NUMBERS? .. . . don’t need to address that one. “They” would see large enough numbers, enabled, empowered and connected by the ability to exchange information by email, the net, and cheap phone technology.
This is part of a short series of postings, one of which talks about the movie “Sounds like a Revolution” http://www.soundslikearevolution.com/ . I recommend the movie. It is very helpful to understanding today’s political affairs.
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(2) RCMP LIST COUP D’ETAT AS THREAT, OTTAWA CITIZEN, September 13, 2010
Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, etc.
RCMP identify coup d’etat as threat
Considered operational priority. First time such language in planning report, signals emphasis on national security
By IAN MACLEOD, Postmedia News; Ottawa Citizen September 13, 2010
RCMP officials have identified a new threat to national security: a coup d’etat.
The reference to a violent overthrow of the federal government is contained in the RCMP’s plans and priorities report to government for 2010-11. It lists national security as one of five operational priorities for the year.
The document then cites four specific security concerns:
– ¦Espionage and sabotage.
– ¦Foreign-influenced criminal activities detrimental to the interests of Canada.
– ¦Terrorism.
– ¦ “Activities aimed at over-throwing, by violence, the Government of Canada.”
RCMP officials were not immediately available Friday to explain the reference, but such language has not appeared in previous RCMP reports.
Over the past year, the Mounties have signalled a renewed emphasis on national security issues that have been pushed aside by law enforcement’s preoccupation with global terrorism since 9/11.
In a major speech last fall, for example, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said while transnational terrorism and “homegrown” radicalization remain big threats, so too are economic espionage by foreign states, transnational organized crime, proliferation issues, illegal migration and other border-security issues.
While hyperbolic, the mention of a coup threat appears to reflect the force’s return to a broader operational approach to guarding national security.
It’s also not the first talk of a government overthrow.
The 1999 book Agent of Influence alleged the U.S. CIA plotted a de facto coup of Lester B. Pearson’s government in the early 1960s.
Canadian author Ian Adams claimed that after the 1963 assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, CIA counter-intelligence branch head James Jesus Angleton became convinced Pearson was an agent for Russian intelligence and supposedly had information from a Soviet defector backing him up.
“The CIA took great personal offence at Pearson’s independent stands in foreign policy, his grain trades with the Soviet Union, his antiwar positions on Vietnam, and especially his friendly stance on Cuba,” wrote Adams.
To get at Pearson, the CIA set its sights first on Canadian diplomat James Watkins, Canada’s ambassador to Russia in the mid-1950s and a friend of the prime minister.
After 27 days of interrogation by the Mounties, the 62-year-old Watkins’s troubled heart gave out and he died, apparently without supplying the confession the spymasters hoped could bring down the government.
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
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(3) SOME POLITICIANS UNDER FOREIGN SWAY, CSIS, June 23, 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/22/spying-csis.html
Some politicians under foreign sway: CSIS
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
CBC News
Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, in an exclusive interview with the CBC. (CBC)
Canada’s spy agency suspects that cabinet ministers in two provinces are under the control of foreign governments, CBC News has learned.
Several members of B.C. municipal governments are also under suspicion, Richard Fadden, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told CBC News in an exclusive interview.
“We’re in fact a bit worried in a couple of provinces that we have an indication that there’s some political figures who have developed quite an attachment to foreign countries,” Fadden said.
“The individual becomes in a position to make decisions that affect the country or the province or a municipality. All of a sudden, decisions aren’t taken on the basis of the public good but on the basis of another country’s preoccupations.”
He said the politicians and public servants see it as a long-standing relationship and have no idea they are being used.
“There are several municipal politicians in British Columbia and in at least two provinces there are ministers of the Crown who we think are under at least the general influence of a foreign government.”
Fadden said the agency is in the process of discussing with the Privy Council Office the best way to inform those provinces there may be a problem.
“We’ll do the same with the public servants. I’m making this comment because I think it’s a real danger that people be totally oblivious to this kind of issue.”
Fadden warned that foreign regimes — through universities and social clubs — will develop a relationship with people who have a connection to the homeland.
“You invite somebody back to the homeland. You pay [for] their trips and all of a sudden you discover that when an event is occurring that is of particular interest to country “X,” you call up and you ask the person to take a particular view,” Fadden said.
At least five countries are surreptitiously recruiting future political prospects in universities, he said. Middle East countries are also involved.
But China is the most aggressive, funding university clubs that are managed by people operating out of the embassy or consulates, Fadden said in a recent speech to Canadian police chiefs and security experts in Toronto.
Chinese authorities also organize demonstrations against the Canadian government in respect to some of Canada’s policies concerning China, Fadden said.
“A number of countries take the view that if they can develop influence with people relatively early in their careers, they’ll follow them through,” Fadden said. “Before you know it, a country is providing them with money, there’s some sort of covert guidance.”
Fadden said he is concerned that too much of the agency’s resources are focused on fighting terrorism and not counter-espionage. That concentration leaves more chances to steal Canada’s sensitive technology and trade secrets, worth billions of dollars a year.
“The difficulty I have, as does everybody, is you have to balance where you allocate resources, but it most definitely is as serious problem, and if I had to guess, I’d say it was going to get worse,” Fadden said.
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