What an amazing coincidence
It's the now-traditional group of masked "anarchists" (here they're trying to provoke a police confrontation at the anti-SPP [the mutant child of the terrible NAFTA agreement] march in Montebello Quebec) that you get to see at pretty much each and every left-wing political action these days. Note how they're taken away by the police in a fairly polite fashion, too. Okay, this is Canada and they're a bit more civilized than the United States, but when I look at that sea of police officers all nicely masked and dressed in riot gear, I get the very strong suspicion that the Canada that I admire has been taken over by a nest of neoconservatives that are every bit as evil (but much more competent) than the evil fucks who are currently flying the United States straight into the ground.
Note, also, that aside from the so-called anarchists pretty much all of the protesters are regular folk who aren't dressed for a revolution, but are simply out protesting against being screwed over by a "security" agreement that makes NAFTA look like an actual trade agreement instead of the open invitation to plunder that it is. They're not the sort of scary rioter that would require 4-500 masked and armo(u)red riot police.
Update: It has been suggested that the three "anarchists" in this picture are actually undercover policemen. I don't know why you'd think that. Surely it's a coincidence that the three of them are wearing nice new boots that look like police boots. And it MUST be a coincidence that they don't look like your run of the mill anarchist griefer, but like big burly policemen. And of course it's a coincidence that they appeared to just vanish off the face of the earth after being "arrested", unlike the 4 other arrestees at that protest. And it had to be an accidental coincidence that the official Mount Doom advance visit manual suggests embedding counterprotesters to drown out any real protests against the Boy King.
(youtube video via Pacific Gazette, advance visit manual link via The Galloping Beaver)
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It turns out those “anarchists” were cops - agent provocateurs. Real anarchists have more sense than promoting cop violence, by the way. See
http://cbmilne33.blogspot.com/2007/08/caught-police-using-agent-provocateurs.html