Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

August 29, 2007

Last week's North American summit in Quebec attracted thousands of protesters, most of them peaceful and law-abiding.

At one point, three suspicious-looking individuals materialized; they were masked, visibly older and better-fed than the youthful demonstrators at the protest. The trio was carrying rocks and sticks and clearly spoiling for a fight with heavily armed riot police. They were quickly exposed as police provocateurs. Their role was to incite a riot as a pretext for the police to use overpowering force to clear away the peaceful demonstrators.

This kind of thing is nothing new. Grant Bristow, co-founder of Canada?s racist Heritage Front organization, was an agent of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He was videotaped urging neo-Nazi skinheads to commit acts of violence, vandalism, and arson. He also made an effort to infiltrate and discredit the mainstream Reform Party.

The use of provocateurs is an old but effective trick. This is something we should remember as we strive to take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.