Operation Gladio in Minnesota: Protestors out "umbrella man" who smashed those windows as an undercover cop

[Mark Crispin Miller]

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

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

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