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
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
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
Yes absolutely. It could be a false flag or not and distinguishing them is something that I personally find really hard to do most of the time. No worries I totally got that you were speculating.
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.
Could be classic "would be a shame if those wacky natives did anything to your pipeline" gangster shit, but I agree. It seems a bit over the top for that.
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