G20 VIOLENCE CONSPIRACY PROPOSED

Fringe left Australian blogger weathergirl proposes that the white jumpsuit-clad instigators of violence at the G20 summit -- the "Arterial Block" group -- were agents provocateur presumably working for corporate or state interests. As evidence she notes that: the group was previously unknown; the group was disdainful of the less violent protesters; and police exhibited "almost ridiculous restraint" (presumably so their agent allies wouldn't be injured).

Having proposed the conspiracy weathergirl then "disavows" it:

Update: please let it be clear that I don’t believe this conspiracy theory, much as I enjoy proposing it.

Weathergirl also notes the "shocking" police treatment of Drasko Boljevic, who says he was abducted by plain-clothes officers: she claims the Boljevic story is not being discussed online, "anywhere." This is odd considering Kath Wilson (aka weathergirl) posted on Boljevic at Left Writes a while back.

Weathergirl has a history of responsibility avoidance when it comes to protester violence -- make sure to read the comments -- so her conspiracy theorizing isn't surprising. The left is a reservoir of violence; always has been, always will be.

Update: As Kim observes in comments at LP, weathergirl first floated the agents provocateur conspiracy theory on the 18th:

I’ve just been watching the violence, both on the part of protestors and police.

It’s complete idiocy, and I can’t help wondering if the particularly vandalous protestors are provocateurs.

Read the comments, for an interesting discussion of the utility of violence.

Update II: weathergirl issues a disclaimer:

This blogging medium is great for folk who have arrived at positions, or who have considered opinions, or who have a wealth of knowledge behind them. I have none of these: I’m impulsive, rash and have a bower-bird approach to knowledge. So often I’m thrashing out ideas which I haven’t thought through.

Like that isn't obvious.