On Tuesday, June 29, Naomi Klein made a surprise appearance at Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QUAIA)'s Pride in Our Politics Cabaret. Making the links between the police repression of protest over the G20 and the slanderous attacks that groups such as QUAIA have experienced, Klein explained: "There has been a very powerful attack on freedom of expression in this country. A McCarthyite campaign against people who fall outside of the Harper government's version of what we should be saying or doing."
The quality of this video is not great - but the audio is worth a listen.
Links:
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z-wNa4BQ78
[2] http://rabble.ca/print/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/07/features/naomi-klein-there-has-been-very-powerful-attack-freedom-expr#comment-1159212
[3] http://rabble.ca/print/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/07/features/naomi-klein-there-has-been-very-powerful-attack-freedom-expr#comment-1159331
[4] http://rabble.ca/user
[5] http://rabble.ca/user/register
The McCarthyite campaign is even rampant among the so-called progressives who want to create a witch-hunt against anyone who doesn't conform to the Harper government's version of "responsible" protest tactics. They urge activists to denounce each other to Harper's police and have them locked up in Harper's jails if they fail to conform to strict non-violent protest protocols.
This leaked military document is critical to understanding militaristic tactics being perpetrated upon innocent civilians on Canadian soil. The tactics used by US special forces abroad, as laid out in this booklet, are virtually the same tactics that are now progressively being utilized by our police forces. To understand and expose their tactics is to render them useless. Must read and please pass this on!
Wikileaks:
"US Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Operations, FM 3-05.202, Feb 2007
FM 3-05.202: Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Operations is the 110 page manual for US Special Forces support, including undeclared support, of foreign governments against internal revolt or insurgency, such as in El Salvador, Colombia, Somalia and the post occupation governments of Iraq and Afghanistan. The manual was made US military doctrine (policy) in February 2007. It supersedes the 1994/2004 version FM 31-20-3: Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces, which Wikileaks described as follows:
The document, which is official US Special Forces policy, directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control, restrictions on labor unions & political parties, suspending habeas corpus, warrantless searches, detainment without charge, bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations, concealing human rights abuses from journalists, and extensive use of "psychological operations" (propaganda) to make these and other "population & resource control" measures palatable."
Document freely accessible here: http://bit.ly/aUgVij