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 gamesYes 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.
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.
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.
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)
by Transportation under the Ice sheet he has infiltrated Canada slowly with his Agents and is behind any Unhappyness that currently resides in the Country...
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?
Pipelines typically pass through hundreds of miles of extremely remote territory. If the state were compelled to station guards along every quarter mile of pipe, operations would become much more costly.
Good. We need more of these actions, the climate change movement failed over the last 30 years for many reasons, but the lack of meaningful material sabotage is one of them. Pacifism is liberalism when the earth is on fire.
The attackers also wielded axes, swinging them at vehicles and through a truck’s window. Flare guns were also fired at workers.”
no one was physically injured
So these people managed to millions of dollars in damage, destroy buildings and heavy equipment yet couldn't hurt a single person that were attacking?
My hot take is this was probably a legit protest, doing that much damage without hurting anyone takes restraint and it would make a better false flag narrative if a couple people ended up in the hospital. Protestors seem a lot more likely to care about not hurting people then a company trying get marshall law or whatever imposed.
My hot take is this was probably a legit protest, doing that much damage without hurting anyone takes restraint and it would make a better false flag narrative if a couple people ended up in the hospital. Protestors seem a lot more likely to care about not hurting people then a company trying get marshall law or whatever imposed.
I think you're right about this. It takes a commitment to an end goal and not just a bunch of people coming along for the ride.
Literally just "Violence is when you damage property."
IMO, more likely to be insurance fraud than a false-flag.
