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The main reason why organizations, businesses and corporations change names is to avoid or sidestep controversy, litigation or judiciary
Any controversy they had is sent to the old name and buried there
Then they can move on with the new name and continue what they were doing before without too much controversy .... until they have to change their name again.
The unit are obviously a counter insurgent militant operation and no name switch is going to change that fact. Their mandate is and always will be to protect corporate interests. Fuck you Jason Charney.
Absolutely. Maybe they can explain this:
Canadian police were prepared to shoot Indigenous land defenders blockading construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
Notes from a strategy session for a militarized raid on ancestral lands of the Wet’suwet’en nation show that commanders of Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), argued that “lethal overwatch is req’d” – a term for deploying an officer who is prepared to use lethal force.
The RCMP commanders also instructed officers to “use as much violence toward the gate as you want” ahead of the operation to remove a roadblock which had been erected by Wet’suwet’en people to control access to their territories and stop construction of the proposed 670km (416-mile) Coastal GasLink pipeline (CGL).
In a separate document, an RCMP officer states that arrests would be necessary for “sterilizing [the] site”.