FW: [ASDnet] Are the Black Bloc police agents?

[Max Sawicky]

I don't think the Black Bloc are cops.
Problem is, their tactics are sometimes
(often?) what cops would do as
agent-provocateurs.  That could also
explain why they don't get arrested.
As for adventurists disappearing after
they stir up shit that others are forced
to contend with, there are plenty of
precedents for that too.

I keep going back to the D.C. A20 demos.
There was much made of someone on the
street being arrested with gasoline bombs.
He & his bombs were briefly shown on the
tv news.  Asian dude with the bottles in
a knapsack.

But his identity was never subsequently
revealed, nor have I noticed any news of
his prosecution.

mbs

Brad DeLong wrote:
> 
> So is Stefano Agnoletto claiming that Carlo Giuliani was a police
> agent, shot by mistake by another group of police when their fake
> anti-police demonstration seemed a little too real?
> 
> Brad DeLong

I haven't followed this thread, so I don't know about this event
specifically, but it has often happened that police killed their agents
or each other. An amusing case in Detroit 30 some years ago. The cops
raided a private poker game -- in which the participants happened to be
police, who naturally shot back at what they thought were thugs breaking
in, etc. etc.

But I still tend to believe that the SLA was at its core police agents
who got double-crossed by their masters and slaughtered to prevent
exposure. And I believe that the Russian group who assassinated the
Grand Duke consisted mostly of Czarist secret police, whose motive was
to maintain a sufficient threat to justify their own existence. Cops are
untrustworthy in all directions.

Carrol

Carrol