Article Contributed on: 11/7/2008 11:36:52 AM
The Rocky Mountain News today reports the ACLU's well-documented (they have a Jeffco Sheriff's report) allegation that
police staged a confrontation with each other during a DNC demonstration.
The use of
agents provocateurs, agents who join the opposition and egg it on to illegalities or violence, is the hallmark of authoritarianism. The Czar of Russia used agents provocateurs to justify sending his sabre-wielding mounted Cossacks to run down demonstrators.
If the charges prove to be true, there should be an investigation in the new session of the Colorado Assembly. Your liberties are at stake when the authorities create trouble where none existed in order to repress the political opposition.
Let's not turn into Russia, please.