A Common Tactic to Discredit Opponents Or to Create Momentum for “Regime Change”

The powers-that-be often use agent provocateurs to disrupt protests and paint protesters as violent and unlikeable.

For example, violent provocateurs were deployed:

• At the North American leader’s summit in Quebec (and see this)

• At the G20 protests in London

• In the Palestinian village of Bil’in

• In Cairo

• At the Occupy protests

• In Burma

• And in many other places

There is a related type of false flag operation commonly used to create chaos and discredit regimes or protesters:  snipers.

For example:

• Unknown snipers reportedly killed both Venezuelan government and opposition protesters in the attempted 2002 coup

• Unknown snipers fired during Thailand’s 2010 protests

• Unknown snipers allegedly have created bedlam in Syria

• And the Estonian foreign minister claims that the new Ukranian coalition deployed snipers to discredit the former government of Ukraine

Brutal … but effective and cheap.

Because it doesn’t cost much to hire one or a handful of snipers to access rooftops or bridge overpasses, create chaos, and then quietly disappear.