Canadian agent provocateur speaks.

Notorious Canadian racist Grant Bristow has now corroborated publicly what THE NEW AMERICAN reported years ago: that he was a paid government agent provocateur, whose vicious diatribes and violent behavior were used to demonize conservatives and pro-lifers and to justify passage of oppressive "hate crimes" legislation. In our February 2, 1998 cover story "Radicalizing the Right," THE NEW AMERICAN described how governments prone to usurpation--our own included--have "a vested interest in creating an equally lawless controlled opposition" in order to justify cracking down on all domestic dissent.

Noting that in socialist Canada, "citizens can be sent to prison for expression or publication of certain 'extremist' political views or the dissemination of hate propaganda," we described Bristow's career as a co-founder of Canada's racist Heritage Front organization and a paid informant of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

While on the CSIS payroll as part of "Operation Governor," Bristow--a longtime drug abuser and former strip-club bouncer--was caught on video urging neo-Nazi skinheads to commit acts of violence, vandalism and arson. He was also involved in efforts to infiltrate members of the racist Heritage Front into Canada's populist ...