Arrests at anti-Israel/Anti-NATO protest in Montreal

[dimsum]

Montreal police backtrack on who caused fires during Friday's protest

Police had initially blamed demonstrators for setting cars on fire, but now say they cannot confirm that and are investigating.

montrealgazette.com

Turns out the fire may have been started by a tear gas grenade from the police.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861099800889811122

 

[Eaglelord17]

You’re mistaking a common part of a name shared by various decentralized groups for true organization. It’s also way, way short of the sort of activity that would attract terrorist designation. You might as well say any disruptive protest is terrorism.

It’s a term we’re very careful about how we throw around, with good reason.

I don’t think we are anymore. Once the proud boys got thrown on there (they are idiots by all accounts, I just disagree with them being terrorists) the standards just kinda got thrown to the wind.

 

[Remius]

Police chief says 'extreme left group' behind Montreal protest violence; Legault calls for more arrests

Quebec Premier Francois Legault is putting pressure on the Montreal police to arrest everyone involved in an anti-NATO protest that turned violent last week.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

 

[Remius]

If this type of group is skating through designations, maybe those laws need strengthening? We froze the bank accounts of people that donated $50 to truckers blocking roads in downtown Ottawa, but we allow folks to fundraise for "direct actions" on behalf of a domestic terror group with impunity. Yes, there's a legal nuance. To the business owners in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and any other city that these thugs riot on behalf of a shared ideology there isn't much of one.

Samidoun.

Was behind some death to Jews changing and flag burning in Vancouver. They were labelled a terrorist group not long after that.

 

[brihard]

I don’t think we are anymore. Once the proud boys got thrown on there (they are idiots by all accounts, I just disagree with them being terrorists) the standards just kinda got thrown to the wind.

Proud Boys earned the designation in large part due to their actions in the US. Like most of our listed entities, they’re assessed globally. In its totality, their actions absolutely fit the 83.01 definition.

Samidoun.

Was behind some death to Jews changing and flag burning in Vancouver. They were labelled a terrorist group not long after that.

Yup, that tipped the scale, but Samidoun was already on the radar for a while as the continuation of / front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who have been listed since 2003.

The list of terrorist entities can be found here along with brief descriptions of why: Currently listed entities The process of designating a terrorist entity can, of course, draw on classified security intelligence that’s not in the public domain.

Montreal police backtrack on who caused fires during Friday's protest

Police had initially blamed demonstrators for setting cars on fire, but now say they cannot confirm that and are investigating.

montrealgazette.com

Turns out the fire may have been started by a tear gas grenade from the police.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861099800889811122

That sucks, but I can totally see it. They can burn hot. Not unheard of for police tear gas or flash bangs to light things on fire… I remember a notorious drug house going up once because our tactical crew doing a search warrant landed a flashbang on the Sofa of Degeneracy, and it caught. Whole place and all the sought evidence burned to the ground.

 

[dimsum]

Proud Boys earned the designation in large part due to their actions in the US. Like most of our listed entities, they’re assessed globally. In its totality, their actions absolutely fit the 83.01 definition.



Yup, that tipped the scale, but Samidoun was already on the radar for a while as the continuation of / front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who have been listed since 2003.

The list of terrorist entities can be found here along with brief descriptions of why: Currently listed entities The process of designating a terrorist entity can, of course, draw on classified security intelligence that’s not in the public domain.



That sucks, but I can totally see it. They can burn hot. Not unheard of for police tear gas or flash bangs to light things on fire… I remember a notorious drug house going up once because our tactical crew doing a search warrant landed a flashbang on the Sofa of Degeneracy, and it caught. Whole place and all the sought evidence burned to the ground.

Tell me more about this “sofa of degeneracy”…

 

[OldSolduer]

Tell me more about this “sofa of degeneracy”…

I want to hear about it too.....great minds think alike

 

[brihard]

Tell me more about this “sofa of degeneracy”…

I want to hear about it too.....great minds think alike

Oh, just a typical drug den couch with years of hard use and abuse and spilled liquor and other substances. Same can be said for the whole house, really.

 

[dapaterson]

Oh, just a typical drug den couch with years of hard use and abuse and spilled liquor and other substances. Same can be said for the whole house, really.

I recall a mess that had a crud table of degeneracy...

 

[brihard]

I recall a mess that had a crud table of degeneracy...

“of degeneracy” is redundant.

 

[Jarnhamar]

I remember a notorious drug house going up once because our tactical crew doing a search warrant landed a flashbang on the Sofa of Degeneracy, and it caught.

Did you get in alot of trouble?

 

[brihard]

Did you get in alot of trouble?

Wasn’t me, that was the tac guys. But no I don’t think so; no wrong was done, something bad things just result. I expect there was probably a civil claim and a payout.

 

[dapaterson]

Wasn’t me, that was the tac guys. But no I don’t think so; no wrong was done, something bad things just result. I expect there was probably a civil claim and a payout.

The civil claim no doubt identified the sofa as being a priceless family heirloom, where multiple generations were conceived (some simultaneously).

 

[Jarnhamar]

Wasn’t me, that was the tac guys.

 

[OldSolduer]

Oh, just a typical drug den couch with years of hard use and abuse and spilled liquor and other substances. Same can be said for the whole house, really.

Even some couches in respectable residences can be a couch of degeneracy….or so I’ve heard.