Suspicious Canada Shooting Triggers Minority Report Pre-Crime Plans for Preventive ArrestsMelissa Melton Within less than two days, rhetoric has risen unusually high for Canada in the wake of what have been called terror attacks, bringing terrorism home along with fresh demands for new police powers. This time, the new powers would include preventive arrests, potentially taking the country down the slippery slope of guilty-until-proven innocent authoritarian policies. Via CBC News: Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney is giving more indications of how the government intends to strengthen Canadas security laws in the wake of Wednesdays attackin Ottawa on Parliament Hill. The minister told Radio-Canada onFriday that the government iseyeing the thresholds established in Canadian law for the preventive arrests of people thought to be contemplatingattacksthat may be linked toterrorism. Officials are considering how to make it easier to presscharges against so-called lone-wolf attackers. The challenges are the thresholds the thresholds that will allow either preventive arrest, or charges that lead to sentences, or more simple operations, Blaney said in French. So what the prime minister has asked is for us to review in accelerated manner the different mechanisms that are offered to police to ensure everyones security. There is even talk now of ramping up Canadas hate speech laws. A bill was already in the works prior to the shootings to strengthen the Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS) powers; Prime Minister Stephen Harper had already announced changes including his belief police powers needed to be increased. In recent weeks, Ive been saying that our laws and police powers need to be strengthened in the area of surveillance, detention and arrest, he said as MPs returned one day after a gunman killed a soldier and made his way into Centre Block on the Parliament Hill. (CBC News) That makes this shooting very convenient for Harpers agenda; now in the wake of this weeks shooting, Harper has stated that work will be expedited. Questions already abound as to where suspect Michael Zehaf-Bibeau even got his the Winchester 30-30 rifle he used in the shooting. Due to his criminal record, Zehaf-Bibeau was already prohibited from owning a gun; in fact, Canadian courts had already issued the man a standard lifetime gun ban due to a violent conviction. Even without that ban, however, this guy couldnt have obtained the gun in any legal way. If anything, first and foremost it just proves that gun control doesnt work. Regardless, in Canada there is no right by law to bear arms. Canadians, unlike Americans, do not have a constitutional right to bear arms, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled in 1993. As Tony Cartalucci of Land Destroyer Report notes, the same plot had been scripted by the FBI just a month prior: In mid-SeptemberA Rochester man,Mufid A. Elfgeeh, was accused by the FBI of attempting to provide material support toISIS (undercover FBI agents),attempting to kill US soldiers, and possession of firearms and silencers (provided to him by the FBI). The FBIsown official press release stated(emphasis added): It was warned that only an inoperable firearm stood between Elfgeehs arrest and his successful execution of deadly plans hatched by him and his undercover FBI handlers. This script, written by the FBI to entrap Elfgeeh, would be followed almost to the letter in live attacks subsequently carried out in Canada resulting in the death of two Canadian soldiers. Cartalucci goes on to point out another troubling detail. Like so many other heavily publicized terror attacks, Zehaf-Bibeau was already under both Canadian and U.S. government surveillance prior to the event, with the suspected shooter listed as a high-risk traveler who had his passport revoked prior to the shooting: It is very likely that the recent attacks in Canada involved at least one informant working for the FBI. Because the FBI uses confidential informants to handle suspects, if a plot is switched live, the informant will be implicated as an accomplice and the FBIs covert role will remain uncompromised With both suspects having been on both US and Canadian watch lists it is very likely undercover agents were involved in either one or both cases. While many possibilities exist, Western security agencies should be among the first suspects considered as potential collaborators And of course Conveniently, both suspects are now dead and little chance remains of ascertaining the truth of who they were in contact with and how they carried out their deadly attacks. Canadas domestic terror threat level was quietly elevated just days before by CSIS intelligence, issuing a medium-level could occur threat advisory for the first time since 2010. Unlike the often hyped and exaggerated public threat assessments in the U.S., this was an internal determination among the intelligence agencies, and signals likely prior knowledge. So what did they know and when did they really know it? Also, as in many highly publicized shootings with government ties, initially police reported multiple shooters. In the end, the story changed, naming Zehaf-Bibeau as the only shooter. Former public safety minister Stockwell Day told CBC News, There are always limitations, and this is what we have to realize in a free and democratic society. Any time you increase your security, you decrease your freedom somewhere. [emphasis added] And there you have it. Terrorism monitored and enabled by undercover informants used as a catalyst to break down civil liberties and accumulate more state power. Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up! 