Diagolon founder Jeremy MacKenzie said he received leaked intelligence about police movements during the Freedom Convoy from an active RCMP member..MacKenzie told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Friday that he was warned by an anonymous Telegram user when the Public Order Unit was being activated to be sent to Ottawa to quell the protest..After the Emergencies Act was invoked, MacKenzie was also sent leaked screenshots of RCMP officers “taking selfies, drinking, eating and celebrating the violence they were binging upon the people of Ottawa.".On Wednesday, lawyer Keith Wilson testified that Freedom Convoy also received leaked police intelligence from sympathizers within the Ottawa Police Service, Ontario Provincial Police and Canadian Security Intelligence Service..READ MORE: Freedom Convoy received leaked police intelligence, lawyer Wilson testifies.After receiving the screenshots of RCMP officers, MacKenzie shared them to his Telegram account. MacKenzie said the anonymous RCMP member deleted their account back in March..MacKenzie told the commission that he founded the controversial group Diagolon during a "stream of consciousness" while streaming online back in January 2021. He found that all the provinces and states in North America that didn't have mask mandates formed a diagonal line..While the Canadian Anti-Hate Network has labelled Diagolon a far-right, accelerationist militia, MacKenzie and his followers maintain the group is a "meme country." .MacKenzie came under fire in September after joking about sexually assaulting Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre's wife..READ MORE: Poilievre tells Diagolon leader 'Leave my family alone' after lewd joke.MacKenzie's group was also tied to an alleged February 2021 plot to kill police officers, which was thwarted by the RCMP. The RCMP seized a weapons cache at the Coutts, Alb. border crossing, which also had several patches bearing Diagolon's flag..During the commission, MacKenzie was shown pictures of the weapons cache and Diagolon patches. He noted that the design of the flags were slightly different from the ones he was making and selling at the time. "These appear to be homemade or made by someone else," he said..MacKenzie said he wasn't aware of the plot to kill police officers, and said he will denounce it if the allegations are proven. "Until then, I hope they get a fair trial and we’ll see what happens," MacKenzie said..The Diagolon leader also addressed claims he made that the RCMP could have planted a false Diagolon flag on the weapons cache. "There is a history of things like this taking place. It's not outside the realm of possibility. I'm not suggesting that it certainly has or has done, but I would leave that open to possibility," he said..MacKenzie testified that he knew the Freedom Convoy was going to stay in Ottawa past the first weekend. The Ottawa Police Service has been criticized for failing to anticipate that the trucker protest would last longer than two days.."It was very clear this was going to be a very significant event. This was not going to be an in-and-out weekend protest, sort of thing," MacKenzie said. "The pot had just simply boiled over, and many people had decided this was going to be the time they would show up and express their discontent with the federal government.".MacKenzie claimed it was never his intention to call for violence during the Freedom Convoy. The commission was shown a video taken during the protest where the Diagolon founder told his supporters to remain peaceful..But the commission was also shown a video, taken after the Emergencies Act had been declared, where MacKenzie told his supporters to "hold the f*ck down," and said "nobody's going anywhere." He also said the protesters should force Trudeau to "act like a tyrant."."It was my intention to convey that the protestors and the demonstrators had no intention to relinquish their democratic right to protest," MacKenzie said. "I've been saying for a long time, to force a tyrant to act like one, you simply refuse to bend to their will, and they will reveal themselves to be who they are. In this case, they deployed the RCMP and various police forces to beat people with batons and shoot them with tear gas canisters.".Towards the end of MacKenzie's testimony, he was asked about the organization structure of Diagolon, specifically its vice president. "He's a demonic goat figurine named Phillip with a very, very serious narcotics problem and a time travelling ability," MacKenzie said..MacKenzie added he didn't believe a reasonable person would believe Diagolon is a real organization. He accused the Canadian Anti-Hate Network of using government funding to "target and smear people that they consider politically inconvenient, or people they just want to shut up.". "They regularly engage in defamatory and libelous action, taking out of context statements - a clip here, a sentence there - to stitch it together and make it appear as something it is not," MacKenzie said. MacKenzie said those out-of-context statements are then reported on by journalists, put into police reports, and finally given to Liberal cabinet members.."It's absurd and I consider it to be the single most embarrassing and grotesque intelligence failure in Canadian history."
