Violence has erupted at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site in Northern B.C., leaving workers shaken and millions of dollars in damage.
Very early Thursday, just after midnight, Coastal GasLink security called RCMP for help, reporting it was under attack by about 20 people, some wielding axes.
RCMP Chief Supt. Warren Brown, commander for the north district, called the attack a “calculated and organized violent attack that left its victims shaken and a multi-million dollar path of destruction.”
This twitter thread might be more important than the article: https://twitter.com/kainagata/status/1494467416855703554?s=21
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love how they’re working overtime to spin it as ‘violence against workers’ instead of what it is: militant sabotage
Wet’suwet’en land defenders have no knowledge of what happened here so I wouldn’t be surprised if this is an RCMP false flag. The damage pictures seem pretty excessive for folks armed only with axes, it’s telling that this is happening the same week the Emergencies Act got brought in for the hog convoy in Ottawa, and the RCMP has engaged in false flag attacks before
Wet’suwet’en land defenders have no knowledge of what happened
I mean, that’s exactly how you’d have to handle it if you were a paramilitary org pulling off this sort of action, to protect the community. Tight opsec is key & giving less militant orgs in the struggle plausible deniability seems pragmatic to me
I’m pretty unfamiliar with the overall struggle there, so I’m not saying it couldn’t have been a false flag or anything. Still, as a false flag it seems to me to be an excessively destructive one - they could probably have gotten the same political momentum from a much less destructive false flag, if it really was one
Provocateurs famously go way over the top. They’re the lone person with a hammer casually smashing a black-owned business’ windows that yells, “anarchy!” before getting in a car with no license plate and speeding off. It’s really hard to tell from afar.
yea, also true. Especially with that precedent of them outright exploding a shed, they’re obviously going hard up north - I’m just speculating and don’t want to make it seem like I’m doing anything more.
Also, even if it was an actual sabotage/attack - it’s still a good idea to claim it was a false flag if only to muddy the waters, make it harder for cops and play PR games
Still, as a false flag it seems to me to be an excessively destructive one
I kinda thought the same, but I’m also not familiar with the situation so maybe they just needed to scare a few people locally to push them in a certain direction. Maybe tons of press wasn’t the goal.
Lmao you might be right but I gotta admit the idea of the RCMP doing millions in damage to CGL property is pretty funny.
Unbelievably based. Holy shit. :sicko-beaming:
How did axes overturn and smash up those excavators? How did these “attackers” escape capture if threatened workers were there to call authorities?
How did axes overturn and smash up those excavators?
I’m guessing they just drove them into each other n shit
How did these “attackers” escape capture if threatened workers were there to call authorities?
looks like it took them a while to get there:
Upon police attendance at the 41 km mark, the roadway had been blocked with downed trees, tar covered stumps, wire, boards with spikes in them, and fires had been lit throughout the debris. As police worked their way through the debris and traps, several people threw smoke bombs and fire lit sticks at the police, injuring one officer.
At the 43 km mark, an old school bus blocked the road. No one was located in this area and with the assistance of CGL, the bus was cleared from the road and police continued on.
pretty well coordinated action, it seems to me. Blowback could be brutal tho
several people threw smoke bombs and fire lit sticks at the police, injuring one officer
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Honestly, that’s one part of this whole thing that I’m very skeptical about - erecting a blockade in the middle of nowhere seems relatively safe and quick but becomes incredibly risky for individual participants if you stick around to… throw sticks? My guess is one cop hurt themself while removing the blockade and they just invented this group staying behind to throw shit at them as they’re busy getting through the blockade.
Wouldn’t they pretty easily have apprehended some - or outright shot at - protestors, if there were people sticking around at the first blockade?
Everyone on :reddit-logo: thinks this is a false flag. While it warms my heart that so many people are ready to embrace the idea that RCMP are crooked thugs, I don’t have the time to interrogate the claim because I’m at work.
Is there good reason besides precedent to believe this is a false flag?
Ackshually, I’m receiving declassified intel that this is the first stage of Putin’s invasion
(no idea, we’re all just speculating at this point, I think)
