Most of you will have heard of COINTELPRO, the late ’60s/early ’70s-era FBI program that infiltrated “subversive” groups with the intent of discrediting them. FBI agents would pose as radicals, join the groups, then incite them to ever-more extremist rhetoric (real and forged) and actions, even carrying out bombings and assassinations.
The program was exposed in 1971 when a burglary on an FBI office led to the publication of secret communications. You’ll no doubt be shocked to know that many news organisations refused to run the story. But, eventually a Congressional committee investigated, finding that the FBI acted highly illegally and violated the constitutional rights of its targets.
Surely, the Deep State learned its lesson and never did it again, right?
Ha. A-ha ha ha. Of 14 people accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, it’s alleged that at least 12 were on the FBI payroll. The Feds have acknowledged at least five.
All of this is a roundabout way to get to the alleged “far-right” plot to “overthrow the government” in Germany.
Now, I’m not saying it’s impossible that these lunatic political LARPers aren’t the real deal, any more than at least one or two of the Whitmer plotters didn’t really mean it, either. But there’s just as much reason to be suspicious of gaslighting state involvement in this kind of thing in Germany, as anywhere else.
After all, Germany has a well-documented history of COINTELPRO shenanigans of its own (and I’m not talking about the Reichstag fire). In the early ’90s, Jewish writer David Cole travelled to Germany to meet “Holocaust denier and Hitler fanboy” (Cole’s own description) Ernst Zundel.
If the thought of Jew hanging out with a neo-Nazi seems bizarre, hang on to your coal-scuttle helmets, folks.
One of Zundel’s other guests was one Ewald Althans.
Guess what? Ewald Althans was exposed by Der Spiegel as a double agent and informer! He’d been conspiring with the authorities (and with actual neo-Nazis) to organize “Nazi”-style anti-asylum protests to create the impression that being against refugees meant being Hitler (the left tries that “Hitler” shtick everywhere, but in Germany it works really well).
Another of Zundel’s sidekicks was a Canadian, Grant Bristow.
Bristow, who was leading the anti-third-world immigration fight in Canada, was the real deal, Zundel assured me. Bristow was dedicated and clever, a master strategist. Through his white nationalist “Heritage Front” organization, Bristow would keep Canada white!
Except, no. Bristow turned out to be a government agent too. He was a mole planted in the far right by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Bristow had been tasked with whipping up acts of violence and harassment in order to discredit the far right and make anyone who objected to open Canadian borders look like a potentially deadly skinhead in the eyes of the public.
You don’t need me to tell you how well that’s worked out for them.
The examples of Germany and Canada teach us one very important lesson: When it comes to flooding the West with immigrants, the left has been playing the long game. Using false promises, dirty tricks and an always-compliant media, the left has slowly, incrementally managed to get its way.
And not just on immigration, but on anything associated with the right – oops, the “far-right”: because, is there any other kind, according to the media-political establishment?
The left – and by that I mean the “intellectual” left: the academics, the top politicos, the think-tankers, the funders and backers – is damn good at the long game.
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Which is why I’m always inclined to be suspicious about establishment histrionics about “the far-right”. It’s not that they don’t exist, of course. But they hardly ever do much beyond cosplaying in WWII costumes (you know which side). That doesn’t mean that right-wing nutters with guns don’t ever take the LARPing too far, but, like “fiery but peaceful protests”, the Establishment have given us too many reasons to distrust them.
So, I may be wrong (it’s been known to happen), but a dose of healthy scepticism goes a very long way.
