...and it was later determined that the whole scheme was thought up and driven by the police themselves.
It speaks to a general problem with police and intelligence in the US & Canada. As institutions they are strongly right-leaning, and pretty much turn a blind eye to domestic extremists such as white supremacists and far-right extremists. Many in the police, intelligence, and military are right-leaning themselves, and they also rather sympathetic to right wing extremists.
That's why police never saw those MAGA attackers coming on January 6, and why the RCMP never went after either Mathews
or Hurren until it was too late. Of course those of us who spend time online actually see the right wing extremists everywhere. They operate in plain sight, even sometimes on this forum.
To be fair, the FBI and DHS are actually better at catching right wing extremists than Canadian authorities, because Americans have a long history of domestic terrorism. For example look at how fast they caught Mathews, when the RCMP did absolutely nothing.
Law enforcement is just itching to go after any kind of muslim they can find, so they spy on mosques, harass innocent men, or (in the case of that Nuttall case) they just fabricate the crimes. The RCMP learned that tactic from the
FBI, who has a long history of planning fake terror plots and entrapping muslims.
We're going to see more far-right attacks like January 6 and their mass shootings and bombings, and what particularly scares me is that police have no interest in stopping these. Police and intelligence services have the same attitude as
@MrMatt @damian13ster @HappilyRetired ... which is "these are just troubled boys, not a big deal". Always making excuses for them and shrugging off the threat.
