In Canada our version of ICE (the “C-IRG” now re-branded as “CRU”) often uses cell phone jamming tech on people the second anyone tries to film them. I have seen them do this in real time on multiple instances when they set up illegal “exclusion zones” to keep journalists out while they brutally assault peaceful land defenders (like they did at Fairy Creek and are right now in Walbran valley on Vancouver Island). I have seen them jam cell phone and internet devices of journalist and protestors, once the devices cannot stream they will take your phone and smash it while no one can record them. Once the live feeds are down I have seen them engage in overtly psychotic behavior like eye gouging protestors, masing them point blank in the mouth, ears, eyes, tasering handcuffed people and aiming L-RAD devices at people in tree sits.

Not many Canadians know about these fascist goons because their strategy of putting on a fake smiley face in public, then cutting off journalistic access to their raids and enabling illegal cell phone jamming tech so protestors cannot record them is highly effective. Sometimes people manage to get bits of footage (like the clip below) but the worst of it is effectively censored through various means.

Their playbook is designed by a man trained by the former CIA head (David Petraeus) and their tactics are reminiscent of his counter-insurgency strategies in the middle east.

First weaponize money (buy out the tribal leaders that will roll over and turn on their own community members).

Second, target those that cannot be bought with propaganda campaigns designed to demonize and delegitimatize them.

Lasty, kinetic operations using paramilitary troops with snipers, submachine guns, tactical gear, cell phone jammers, gas grenades, L-RADs, active denial arrays, mase and tasers to crush any that refuse to comply with the fascist edicts of the Canadian state and their corporate partners.

Watch the short video clip below of these fascist thugs operating at Fairy Creek 5 years ago. There was a guy playing music peacefully protesting in the road with his friends, blocking the logging equipment from being able to pillage the ancient forest.

The Mountie with the red can of mace bats a guitar away as a colleague flings it past him. The instrument lands in the dirt.

Another officer instantly smashes it to bits with a stomp before a fourth officer, with the word “MEDIC” etched on his back, kicks it into the bush.

A few metres away, Mounties douse protesters with streams of pepper spray. They rip masks off faces in the crowd, knock off their hats and rub the burning chemical agent in their eyes. (I linked a video from that perspective in the comments below showing them rip some ladies masks off so they could mase them in the face)

The forest defenders, protesters against old-growth logging on Vancouver Island’s Fairy Creek watershed, absorb dose after dose on this warm August 2021 morning.

These militarized Mounties threaten to arrest reporters.

“You do one more thing and I’ll dose you, bitch,” a Mountie told independent media producer Kristy Grear, according to court files. “There was no name tag or badge number displayed on the officer’s uniform,” the documents claim. “However I did observe a so-called ‘thin-blue line’ patch on the officer’s uniform.”

Federal and Ontario equivalents are the Tactical Response Unit (TRU) and "O" Division. They publicly state they are for federal policing (stated purpose is national security, serious organized crime, federal offences) but they are weaponized against peaceful protestors (they were unleashed in Ottawa to crush those asking for their bodily autonomy to be respected in 2022 and have engaged in operations in Nova Scotia and the Boreal Forest of both Quebec and Ontario in assaulting and kidnapping indigenous land defenders so that mining and clearcut logging operations can go forward on unceded territories. Their tactics and manual are the exact same as BC's C-IRG. These are Canada's version of ICE, except along with being racist psychopaths that like to target specific cultural demographics for oppression, they also are a para-military arm of the Corporate profiteering cartel's enforcement mechanism in Canada (paid for by your tax dollars and ensuring that pillaging of forests, rivers and lakes can go forward unimpeded by locals that get in the way.)

I aim to give Canada’s Corporate Industry mercenary equivalent to ICE the spotlight they deserve in the hall of shame, for we cannot effectively strategize to sabotage that which we do not know exists. After I publish my last article on Ferry Creek i`ll be making a video about the C-IRG (now re-branded as “CRU-BC”) and their federal equivalents. People need to understand that totalitarianism is not just occurring in the US, it is alive and festering here in Canada as well, and we need to take action to call it out in our communities.

For more info on Canada’s Corporate Mercenary version of ICE read the linked article and those I will link in comments section below:

thetyee.ca/Analysis/201…