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Canada Spy Service Increasingly Worried About Violent Online Rhetoric
VOA News ^ | Reuters

Posted on 11/12/2021 5:34:31 PM PST by Nextrush

OTTAWA---Canada's spy service said on Friday it was increasingly concerned about the rise of violent ideologically motivated online rhetoric, which it blamed in part on tensions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said since the start of the pandemic, threats posed by extremists had "evolved with unprecedented multiplicity and fluidity."

COVID-19 it said, has worsened existing strains of xenophobia and anti-authoritarianism. Violent extremists were exploiting the pandemic by amplifying false informaton about government measures and the virus, it said.

Protesters opposed to mandatory vaccinations have blocked access to hospitals across Canada and abused medical staff, both in person and online.

"Online rhetoric that is increasingly violent and calls for the arrest and execution of specific individuals is of increasing concern," CSIS said in a statement...

(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: canada; canaduh; coronavirus; covid19; csis; vaccination; vaccine
How much "violent online rhetoric" is trolling by intelligence agencies foreign and domestic as well as law enforcement seeking to catch "extremists"?

CSIS is the CIA in Canada.

1 posted on 11/12/2021 5:34:31 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Canaduh’s IC feels threatened by some actual anti-fascists.


2 posted on 11/12/2021 5:36:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Nextrush

Good, they should be worried and they caused it.


3 posted on 11/12/2021 5:36:31 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: Nextrush
"Online rhetoric that is increasingly violent and calls for the arrest and execution of specific individuals is of increasing concern"

Who exactly might those individuals be? Enquiring minds want to know.

4 posted on 11/12/2021 5:39:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Nextrush

Watching the news tonight with this story and others on the blog...https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2021/11/news-summary-intelligence-report-friday_12.html


5 posted on 11/12/2021 5:50:54 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: BenLurkin

Justin Trudeau comes to mind as a communist in dire need of an execution. After a fair trial, of course.


6 posted on 11/12/2021 5:53:53 PM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: Nextrush

anti-authoritarianism
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lovers of liberty.

Freedom is dangerous/s


7 posted on 11/12/2021 5:54:31 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: All

There is zero chance of a Canadian court trying anybody for being a communist. It has never been illegal here, just actively spying for the USSR was illegal and brought prosecutions (most famous was the Gouzenko affair in the postwar late 1940s). But otherwise it is entirely safe if not particularly a good move socially to declare oneself to be a communist, to run for parliament as a communist or Marxist-Leninist, and it is not an absolute barrier to advancement in the public service either.

At the same time obviously there is very little point in pushing some orthodox communist line when the mainstream leftwing parties here are communist enough to get the job done (after enriching every last man, Jack and dog who ever helped the parties).

As to CSIS being “increasingly” concerned, that is more or less untrue, they have been concerned for at least twenty years and probably closer to forty (in earlier times they did not have the name CSIS, but operated within the RCMP).

The threat is of course tremendously overstated and entirely blind to the real problems we face, such as Chinese infiltration of all levels of our governments (including municipal apparently, at least in terms of large cities where they can get advantages, they probably don’t bother the mayors or councils of smaller places — yet).

It was widely speculated that CSIS had infiltrated a number of conservative on-line communities of varying mainstream to radical views, as early as 2005 and certainly by about 2010 so this is nothing new. And what they accomplished was basically nothing, they just radicalized people further and drove them all into larger groups. Brilliant.


8 posted on 11/12/2021 6:04:17 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (a cloud has fallen over the lands of the free )
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To: Nextrush
It’s when people stop talking online about what they’d like to do that the government should be worried. While they’re still talking, they’re mostly blowing off steam. Once the pressure relief valve closes, things might seem quiet, but that’s when the pressure is building to an explosion.

This is why the social media censorship is so dangerous. They will get exactly what they claim to be trying to prevent because of their own dictatorial actions.

9 posted on 11/12/2021 6:04:35 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Nextrush

Their key is that fewer and fewer Canadians are saying “sorrry” as they used to,eh?


10 posted on 11/12/2021 6:19:30 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Nextrush

The ‘violence’ we see with respect to this scandemic is primarily coming from the Vax Cultists opining about all sorts of things like banning unvaxxed from everywhere, interning them, imprisoning them, and fining and exacting revenge in any number of ways. The worst of them on social media, many notable luminaries of entertainment, are the most vile and vocal villains this country has ever seen. It truly is reminiscent of the yellow star days of Germany at War.


11 posted on 11/12/2021 6:24:21 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Nextrush
Like the FBI and CIA, CSIS has a history of questionable law enforcement tactics like creating white supremacists to entrap alleged white supremacists.

Decades later, CSIS’s white supremacy infiltrator tells his story

12 posted on 11/12/2021 7:15:21 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"authoritarianism"

The word suggests "police state" to me.
13 posted on 11/12/2021 9:07:50 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: clearcarbon

Exactly, anyone who values liberty and freedom is anti-authoritarianism.


14 posted on 11/12/2021 9:20:41 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Nextrush

Good


15 posted on 11/13/2021 3:07:31 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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