canada day 2010: shame, shame, shame

123 / 365Oh Canada Day, my heart is aching and I feel the exact opposite of proud to be Canadian. The horror stories about the behavior of the police toward the people at the G20 keep flooding in and every one gets worse. Video, eye witness accounts, photos. And then I hear the Toronto Police Chief on the radio, pompously justifying the police actions because of the handful of so-called ‘Black Bloc Terrorists’ and their heinous behavior. Not a word, not a hint of apology or admission of any overkill or wrongdoing. I couldn’t believe it, not after what has happened. Do they really think we’re that stupid?

Apparently they do. The police were conspicious by their absence when it came to the vandals. They were allowed (encouraged? Helped?) to smash windows in the downtown financial district and to burn police cars. There was not a hint of police presence or interference in these activities.

How many of these black-clad terrorists were actually undercover police officers? It seems likely that some of them were. This has now become a time honoured police tactic: dress up like the bad guys, do bad guy stuff even if there are no real bad guys around who want to do it in order to get the bystanders fired up and into a mob mentality in order to justify the massive police crackdown that they’ve spent so much money on making possible.

It’s called incitement to riot, wait isn’t that against the law? Ah, you see, the police are allowed to break the law in order to encourage people to break the law so that they can arrest them. It all makes such perfect sense.

The following quote is from the description on this video of Black Bloc violence:

It should be VERY obvious to everyone at this point, there is a pattern here. Massive crowds of PEACEFUL protesters show up to voice their opinions and concerns, and LIKE CLOCKWORK the Black Bloc comes out of nowhere and FU$%S UP THE WHOLE PROGRAM, EVERY TIME. This is a classic, PREDICTABLE tactic used time and again. And every time it happens the black Bloc gets away while the peaceful crowds are surrounded, harassed, arrested and worse. It is used to steer the public away from what LEGITIMATE protesters are out there screaming about, and is also used as a way to condition the public into expecting harsher police responses and HUGE security clampdowns (1 BILLION DOLLARS) every time there is a protest organized. The Black bloc is a tool of the Global Elite and there is plenty of proof if you are willing to look for it. REAL PROTESTERS DON’T WEAR MASKS, except gas masks, and by the time those are necessary it’s obvious who is on what side! I can guarantee that just like all the past G20 protests, it will come out that the Police (undercover, in uniform, and elements of the Black Bloc), were the ones burning and smashing things, so they have their excuse to rush in on the law abiding protesters! GUARANTEED

“$1 billion of security cannot stop a radical group as they smash a police rental van at University & College intersection, while dozens of police officers sit in rental vans across the street. The Black Block escapes proceeding the closing down the ‘free speech zone’ in Queens Park… G what? Hollywood Psy-Op!”

Video Credit To SupportLocalScene:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SupportLo…

REAL PROTESTERS DON’T WEAR MASKS, except gas masks, and by the time those are necessary it’s obvious who is on what side! I can guarantee that just like all the past G20 protests, it will come out that the Police (undercover, in uniform and elements of the Black Bloc), were the ones burning and smashing things, so they have their excuse to rush in on the law abiding protesters! GUARANTEED

EYEWITNESS REPORTS: Reported in THIS VIDEO – Police allowing destruction, not moving in…

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING,THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE, THAT IS WHAT HYPOCRISY LOOKS LIKE!

But this is the piece that shut down my celebratory mood for good today. It’s a very long, detailed, wrenching, excellently written story by a guy who was arrested along with hundreds of other bystanders, protesters, shoppers, locals and other innocents and detained in cages–yes, cages!–crammed with other prisoners for nearly 24 hours. It’s a hell of a story, the kind of thing you can’t imagine happening here. You just can’t.

But it did. It would make a hell of a documentary film. Paul Manly, I hope you’re on this one. Shame, shame, shame on this country today.

More stories from the mainstream media:

National Post photographers arrested & detained for 24 hours
From the Toronto Star, 20 people tell their stories

Here I was, all set to go downtown and join the community in its Canada Day party, but now all I want to do is cry. Or maybe break some windows and torch some police cars.

If they want to start a revolution, this is the way to go about it. How long are we going to let this crap go on? They’re strengthening the infrastructure of the police state. Will we wait until we’re all confined to cages to do something? What the hell CAN we do?

God damn it. I want my country back. I’m starting to feel like this.

Oh, and the HST kicking in today? I’m not even going to go there. It’s just adding insult to injury.

6 Responses to “canada day 2010: shame, shame, shame”

  1. Fillibluster says:

    Yes, this was a travesty from start to finish. But you really should have come out to the rally today in Toronto to demand a full public investigation. Thousands of people were there. We heard from Amnesty International, a woman from the Community Mobilization Committee who were targeted by police, and also the young man who wrote that moving piece and who was so arbitrarily detained (like most who were).

    The G20 weekend was a surreal nightmare. But after he spoke about his ordeal, Tommy Taylor brought his girlfriend Kate up to the mike, got down on one knee and proposed to her. She accepted and a wonderful, healing, life-giving cheer went up from the crowd.

    Whatever shame I may have felt about our country, I was gone in that moment.

  2. bee says:

    Aw I wish I could have… I live on Vancouver Island. The ferry fares alone make it a deal breaker!

    Thank you for telling me this–that’s a beautiful story. I’m really glad for Tommy and Kate. Still, I don’t hold out much hope for a police investigation. The Toronto chief of police sounded pretty confident, almost too confident, and wasn’t giving the slightest bit of hint of humanity. Chilling.

    The question for me is, was he so confident because he has such confidence in the power of the police state, or because he’s completely disconnected from any sense of reality?

  3. bee says:

    What hope I do have lies with stories like what you are telling me, and with what I know of the soul of this country of ours. I never realized before that I actually love Canada. It’s always been a sort of abstract, casual feeling of ‘glad I’m Canadian and not one of those guys’ to me. This country is just… not like that. We’re not. What hit me hardest was the responses of some of the police, the ones with hearts and awake minds. What a horrifying position to be in.

    Part of why this has been so devastating for me, even though I’m far away, is that I feel the soul of this country has been profoundly violated. Kind of like the way some Americans must have felt a few years ago.

    I don’t for a second believe that they’re going to just decide to stop. This has been coming on for a long time. I can’t make it to the rallies. So I’ll blog instead. Thanks for reading.

  4. Greensera says:

    The test of a true person with heart is if they can go on being cops and carrying sticks, guns, weapons, enforcing rules, protecting the status quo after seeing and being part of the perpetration.

    We ask the men of the military to stop being warriors, to lay down the arms, to say no to being tools of war…as Buffy wrote about. We need to ask the same of these cops.

    If they are people with hearts, they would consider laying down the badge. Until then, I can’t see any commitment to that heart.

  5. Chuck says:

    This is quite amazing, Mario Laguë is killed in the worst way possible and the Mainstream Media does not disclose ANY of the details.

    Is it possible to be any more incompetent than that?

    Thank God, the truth is not entirely ignored.

    It’s time for a new Administration. Mario LaguĂ« was the only Communications Director in Canada who was worth listening to and HIS message lives !

  6. bee says:

    Hm, I didn’t see anymore details of the accident in the story you posted than I did here: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/08/sad-news-olo-communications-director-mario-lague-killed-in-motorcycle-accident.html

    Did the motorcycle hit a tree or something? What happened? What are the details you refer to? It’s certainly sad when a good person dies, but it’s not always nefarious. Not saying it isn’t–I don’t see any evidence being presented, just innuendo and suspicion…

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