Penners, Finally, clarity from the suites about the recent protests in the streets against the WTO/IMF/WB. See below. Seth Sandronsky > The Calgary Sun Tuesday, > May 2, 2000 > > Mystery lurks behind protest > > Many will be surprised when true nature of demonstrators is known > > By PAUL JACKSON > > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Letters to the editor should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
