There is some history between Donald Best and Barbados Underground. For those who are unable to follow, fret not thyself. Thanks for the submission from maple leaf country.
–Barbados Underground
To begin, https://x.com/DonaldBestCA is the Twitter account of Donald Best; he popped up during the Canadian Trucker “Freedom Convoy” and offered his voice of experience as a Toronto Police Officer to critique the government’s failures in the light of Covid-19 and subsequent scandals – however he was often a “moderating” voice urging people to remain within what he deemed acceptable boundaries, etc…the type who quickly got accused of being a “Fed” infiltrator.
More interestingly, the accusation has just been made informally in Canada that there are suspicious overlaps between the story of “Donald Best” and the story of our most infamous CSIS (Canadian CIA) agent, Grant Bristow. Bristow hit scandal when it emerged he was a co-founder of the Heritage Front, the primary white supremacist group in Canada – he did it “for the government” and for years then the government could point to these terrorists to justify draconian response…but it was being led by their own guy.
Grant Bristow is the actual name of the individual, though he later lived under the name Nathan Black in Edmonton, then used the alias Darren Forester, Darren Foster and others to again meddle in politics, impersonating journalists to try and intimidate the local mayor on an Airport deal.
Grant Bristow was raised by his single mother, along with his one brother – while his sister lived with their father. Donald Best also writes that he has one brother and one sister. Grant Bristow’s maternal grandfather’s name was Donald. You’ve already mentioned the Lemieux/Best incident in McKenzie’s office, but it might also be interesting to know when you talk about Sonny, an “intern” also at McKenzie’s office – he appears twice in your BU records, it should be noted that Grant Bristow’s father’s name was Arthur “Sonny” Valdimar Bristow (obit easily found online). It should also be noted that Donald Best, in the letter he sent to the Court complaining about the three month sentence, CCed the Toronto lawyer David Bristow…that’s David Ian Bristow. (It might also be noticed that “Donald Best” has openly defamed those raising legal funds for the “Coutts 4” political prisoners in Canada, insisting that people should donate instead to another suspected-Fed group run by Jeremy McKenzie named “Diagolon” – centralizing all the anti-government white supremacy facets under a single umbrella all run by federal agents.
Now you’ll find in the Edmonton Journal lots of talk about Bristow using the name “Nathan Black”, but it’s notable in your own records you reference twice that Donald Best was using the name “Nathan” himself during the BU time period. https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/mandel-v-the-mole-a-mystery-of-lies-and-secrets and https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/a-short-history-of-grant-bristow-aka-nathan-black-aka-darren-holmes and elsewhere. I elsewhere noted that Bristow was living under the name “Nathan Black”, again it should be noted that the only man in his life following single motherhood was his grandfather Donald Black. Bristow became Black…did he also become Donald?
Both Bristow and Best explain that they studied forensic accounting in the 1990s as their background, both claim to have run a Private Investigator firm in the 1990. Both of them spend time in Thailand. Bristow in the early 90s was married to Kim Vilon who had a child, but their marriage shattered after he was exposed as the head of the Heritage Front (a KKK-type ripoff). I can’t find any records on the Wanphen Panna you name, but what’s more interesting is that I work with genealogy; I can easily find Grant Bristow’s birth records, parents, grandparents, his brother is a diver who worked with the Winnipeg police, easily provable he exists even though he was an undercover CSIS agent…on the other hand, Donald Robert Best, zero. I have your word, which means his word, that he’s married to a Wanphen Panna and has two sons…but there’s no birth record on any of them, no marriage record, no immigration record, no naturalization record, nothing. June 7 1954, can’t find birth records still.
He went to prison for three months in solitary confinement, rather than be questioned about the holes in his story…that can’t just be about Nelson Barbados; when BU revealed his name and addresses off his driver’s license and such, he wrote to the judge claiming it put his life and the life of his family in danger…now “Donald Best” has zero reason to fear assassins, but “Grant Bristow/Nathan Black/Darren Forester” has been very open about his paranoia that the Heritage Front will seek to kill him in retribution for having sold all of their names to the government for years, etc. The conversation at https://barbadosunderground.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mckenzie-3.pdf about “Nick P.” shows the elusive answer McKenzie gives when appearing to try to avoid acknowledging that Nick P. and Donald Best may in fact be the same person under different names.
You’ll see some of the social media buzz by people who have never met Donald Best or Grant Bristow before, at https://x.com/search?q=bristow%20donald%20best&src=typed_query&f=live – on the other hand I’m not a stranger to either of them albeit decades apart…and something just doesn’t quite line up. I cannot swear under oath they are the same person, I am not certain, but there are a number of strange coincidences – and since it seems BU was the original “confused as heck, what on earth is going on with this dude in a random court case who goes to jail rather than show up and all his addresses and references are fakes and his backstory doesn’t make any sense”…I figured I’d pass some of it along to you.
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