>From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby at tao.ca>
>Reply-To: marxism at lists.panix.com
>To: "Leninist International"
><leninist-international at buo319b.econ.utah.edu>, "Marxism (LP) List"
><marxism at lists.panix.com>, "Marxist Activist"
><Marxist-activist at egroups.com>
>Subject: Foreign Terrorists Are Funding Anti-Corporate Protests
>Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:48:27 -0700
>
>I couldn't beleive this was supposed to be real, so I pass it on. The next
>place that a "Direct Action Network" group will be organising is in
>Calgary,
>hence the idiocy and/or hysteria of the article. Good for a laugh, anyways.
>
>Macdonald
>
>**********
> Tuesday, May 2, 2000
>
> Mystery lurks behind protest
>
> Many will be surprised when true nature of demonstrators is known
>
> By PAUL JACKSON, Calgary Sun
>
> Someone, somewhere -- in the FBI, CIA, RCMP, CSIS, MI5, MI6 and
> other intelligence and police agencies in the western world --
> must be asking a question that one day will unravel with damning
> consequences.
>
> The question is: Who is covertly financing and directing the protest
> groups that rocked the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle,
> threatened to close down the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
> meetings in Washington, and now are focusing on the World Petroleum
> Congress in Calgary in June?
>
> How is it these supposedly motley crews -- looking like the
> disorganized flotsam and jetsam of the world's radical left --
> can be so well organized?
>
> What planning goes into shipping thousands of these zealots to
> Seattle, Washington and soon Calgary?
>
> Where did they get their targets and how did they manage
> communication, travel and accommodation plans on such a vast scale?
>
> Who delighted in seeing the carnage in the streets of Seattle, and
> savours the disruptions that may soon occur upon the streets of
> Calgary?
>
> And why -- in democratic nations like the United States and Canada
> -- are the representatives of legitimate worldwide organizations
> being made to perspire and even fear what may befall them?
>
> Well, sooner or later, we are going to find out, and then the sham
> of those who pretend to be so concerned about the environment, child
> labour in the Third World and 101 other bogus 'matters of conscience'
> will be revealed.
>
> Here are three immediate possibilities:
>
> *Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
>
> *Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
>
> *Afghanistan's Osama bin Laden
>
> All are prone to promote world terrorism with an aim to destabilize
> the western democracies.
>
> A trial is now under way in Lockerbie, Scotland, involving suspected
> Libyan agents' role in the 1988 downing of Pan Am flight 103 and the
> deaths of its 259 passengers, and bin Laden -- the "elusive
> billionaire" -- is being fingered by the FBI as financing terrorism
> by Algerian extremists -- including a Canadian connection.
>
> Let's backtrack a bit. From the 1950s to the 1990s, western
> democracies witnessed all kinds of mass protest movements against
> the policies of their elected governments.
>
> We had groups like the "Ban the Bomb"' movement wanting the west to
> get rid of its nuclear weapons, groups urging us to disarm completely
> and trust the Soviet Union to later do the same, student protest
> groups spawning riots on issue after issue, and actually bringing
> down the government of France's Charles de Gaulle, and groups with
> military wings like the Irish Republican Army.
>
> Find an issue or manufacture one, and some radical group would spring
> up to oppose it.
>
> We now know many of these causes were orchestrated by Moscow and its
> puppet regimes in Eastern Europe -- particularly East Germany -- and
> the groups financed by the Kremlin and its front organizations.
>
> Moscow was involved in shipping arms to the IRA, and Moscow and
> Beijing were behind much of the Vietnam anti-war movement.
>
> The collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of files has also
> revealed any number of the west's left-wing and liberal politicians
> and bureaucrats had been co-opted by our enemies.
>
> Much of this was known or suspected by our intelligence
> organizations, but kept under wraps for either legal or security
> reasons -- or to prevent mass unease or even panic by western
> society.
>
> Some of the culprits in the Moscow/Beijing-directed operations were
> out-and-out traitors, some sold out for money, some were blackmailed,
> and many were simply 'useful' dupes.
>
> Some of these "useful dupes," such as the unilateral disarmament
> types, were astonished to learn they had been used as pawns and were
> regarded as "idiots" by their puppetmasters.
>
> Ten-to-one, a lot of us will again be surprised -- even stunned --
> when the true identity and nature of the latest radical protest
> groups are revealed.
>
> Jackson, associate editor of the Sun, can be reached at
> conradjackson at home.com
>
> Letters to the editor should be sent to callet at sunpub.com
>
>http://www.canoe.com/Columnists/jackson.html
>
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