Protesters Beaten: Is It Actually The Government Doing The Beating?
Beware of “Signature Reduction” agents: A Guest Post by friend of INN, Andrew Zigmund Smith from Action4Assange
With permission, republishing a thread Posted to Twitter/X at 3:55pm ET Thursday, May 2 (edited by
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Counter Reinforcing Provocateurs
On campuses across the country, we are seeing a rise in violence on multiple fronts.
Police violence against peaceful protesters. "Counter protesters" committing violence against encampments, as well as some protesters resorting to violent means.
This is not an organic phenomenon - and I would like to present you with a diagnosis of the current escalations.
Propaganda
It begins with MSM and MAM propaganda trying to seed the narrative that encampments are violent, or anti-Semitic, as a means to justify violently removing civil liberties. If you aren’t already aware, the FBI has used Agent Provocateurs for decades to infiltrate movements as a means to entrap activists or dissolve movements
Historically, these operations were called COINTELPRO
Signature Reduction & their Agents
The modern term (for COINTELPRO) is called Signature Reduction
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“Signature Reduction” is a sweeping term used by the Pentagon / CIA referring to the operations of a 60k+ person "born classified" domestic military.
These agents, I would assert, are responsible for BLM protests turning into Antifa and the current escalations on some campuses. These agents have been inserted into college encampments and thrive on the chaos they inspire. Oftentimes, they can be identified as ones calling for violence, whether against property or people, and commonly seek to control the groups logistically.
They seek to escalate with police in order to have their message of violence become self-justifying within the groups they reside. It can be assumed they are the ones promoting aggressive chants and getting protesters to move toward police lines while remaining behind the crowd. Whether willing or unwitting participants, the police are a tool they use to entrench themselves as thought leaders or de-facto authority figures.
The “Signature Reduction” agents often initiate conflict with members of the group who seek to avoid violence or promote peaceful resistance to police encounters. They attempt to create situations that allow the MSM or MAM to further their seeded narrative that encampments are violent and hateful. If they successfully gain authority within the group, they will continue to escalate the protests and isolate former leaders.
If the Agents are unsuccessful at their attempts to incite violence and seize control, the police often push harder or will begin using plainclothes Agents to assault the encampments harder, as [possibly] seen recently at UCLA, to provide further justification. These plainclothes Agents, currently being called "Pro-Israeli" activists, are part of the same cast in the Signature Reduction theatre.
I am not asserting that every campus has such actors or that every cop / counter protester needs to be in on the game. This leads us to the goal of the Provocateurs, on both sides of the line…
It’s an attempt to move peaceful groups into the frame of the seeded narrative as a means to isolate them ideologically as "Communist", spin supporters against the anti-war protests and demoralize protesters.
The end game in all of this is mass arrests, justifications for a police state and elimination of 1st/4th amendments
The other goal by the owner class & media is to divert attention and energy from the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza and Foreign Aid, because staying on message threatens the Predator Class
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Thanks, great article summarising the situation with agent provocateurs. I believe Kit Klarenberg gave mention to this risk recently as well, also with clear examples of organisations even trying quite openly to employ them.
It is hard to imagine any other foreign state being given such leeway in the US and openly disseminating propaganda guidebooks (i.e the "Hasbara Handbook:" http://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf). Imagine if somewhere like Russia were doing all this what the reaction would be!
No.
Unless you mean the Israeli government funding shlegers to beat up peaceful protestors.
Go Fuck Yourself Nazi Terrorist. 👋