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08 Jul 10 - 11:07 AM (#2941774) Subject: BS: a sad G20 incident From: PHJim I couldn't believe this happened in Canada: http://niagaraatlarge.com/2010/07/05/thorold-ontario-amputee-has-his-artificial-leg-ripped-off-by-police-and-is-slammed-in-makes |
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08 Jul 10 - 02:30 PM (#2941907) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: VirginiaTam This is disgusting behaviour on part of police. I wonder how many were involved in this? Shows what happens when mob mentality takes over. Doesn't matter who the mob is. |
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08 Jul 10 - 02:58 PM (#2941922) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: JohnB Get used to it, the City of Toronto Councillors gave the police a unanimous thumbs up for their efforts, along with Dalton McGuinty and his cronies. What happened to free speech and human rights. The bastards dont even apologize for ANYTHING they did. JohnB |
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08 Jul 10 - 03:20 PM (#2941934) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Yeesh! :0( |
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08 Jul 10 - 03:55 PM (#2941946) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: GUEST,bankley The officers were making $80 an hour on average.. I ignored Canada Day this year because 17 protesters were still in jail. The Queen's visit made a nice distraction , I ignored her as well, even if it only cost us 9 million to have her here compared to 1.1 billion for the G20.. support our troops, bring them home and send politicians instead |
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08 Jul 10 - 04:13 PM (#2941968) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: gnu I don't believe a word of it. Untill it's proven, I say it's garbage. |
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08 Jul 10 - 05:09 PM (#2942002) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Q (Frank Staplin) Odd that no other source seems to have printed it. There were reporters all over the place, and photographers looking for conflicts. I question the reliability of the blog. |
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08 Jul 10 - 05:29 PM (#2942015) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) 'Odd that no other source seems to have printed it' http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/07/07/g20-summit-police-protester-pruyn.html http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/police%20yanked%20prosthetic%20amputee/3243287/story.html |
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08 Jul 10 - 05:35 PM (#2942019) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: gnu Yes Q... no Canuck would drag a man over pavement causing his skin to bleed or do any of that other bullshit. It's crap. Pathetic. |
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08 Jul 10 - 05:37 PM (#2942022) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) BTW I Googled that in a matter of seconds. Also please note the photograph on the right of the National Post piece, the almost blurry thing there is this mans prosthetic leg being waved about by a nice protector of the people. It ain't exactly Heartbeat* these days is it? *UK TV reference. |
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08 Jul 10 - 05:39 PM (#2942024) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Here's a clicky |
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08 Jul 10 - 05:47 PM (#2942027) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: gnu Good lord.... could this actually have happened? No... please no. I feel physically ill. And ashamed. |
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08 Jul 10 - 06:03 PM (#2942033) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Ebbie Photos |
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08 Jul 10 - 06:12 PM (#2942036) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Rapparee "The police are not there to prevent disorder. They are there to preserve disorder." --Richard Daley the 1st of Chicago 1968 |
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08 Jul 10 - 06:15 PM (#2942037) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: gnu Just sent an email to my MP and to Harper. I am beside myself. I am sickened. |
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08 Jul 10 - 06:33 PM (#2942040) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Hey Gnu, welcome to the world :) I don't mean that badly, but the police have been an umm 'issue' for people concerned about them overstepping their role in the UK for many years now. To very broadly paraphrase: they came for the miners, they came for the hippies, they came for the man with one leg who was peacefully protesting, they're gonna come for you too.. In reference to Canadian police, you really aughta check out the stuff about 'agent provocateurs' or in other words: undercover police pretending to be anarchists, while holding rocks (wonder what they planned to do with rocks in their hands). |
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08 Jul 10 - 06:44 PM (#2942044) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Sorcha Totally appalling! |
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08 Jul 10 - 07:15 PM (#2942055) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: bobad There was a lot worse shit than that that went down in Tehranto, check this out for one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heb9BXjYcII. |
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08 Jul 10 - 08:57 PM (#2942105) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Sandy Mc Lean It is a disgrace to see a gang of cops in Darth Vader suits beat up on innocent people! Canada's shame is ever putting this event in a large city, spending over a billion dollars on security and then using this pack of goons to justify the cost! STEPHEN HARPER SHOULD BE KICKED TO HELL OUT OF OFFICE! |
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08 Jul 10 - 10:37 PM (#2942148) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Rapparee From what I see on YouTube, there were windows smashed, looting, and police cars burned, all by folks dressed completely in black. It appears that the police didn't do anything to the MIB, but to people in ordinary clothes. Shades of 1968! |
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08 Jul 10 - 11:16 PM (#2942160) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Sandy Mc Lean Yes, it seems that no cops were anywhere close to their burning cars or the smashed windows. None of those dressed in black were arrested or at least charged. However it gave these bastards an excuse to club innocent protesters and illegally arrest them. There is suspicion that the MIB may have been disguised cops because it has happened before in Quebec. The job of the police in a democracy is to protect citizens but in a police state it is to keep the populace in line. In this case I believe that they showed themselves to be bullies and many should be charged with assault and fired! |
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09 Jul 10 - 08:42 AM (#2942300) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: GUEST,bankley It was a mistake to hold G20 in the downtown of the country's biggest city, unless it was done intentionally as a show of force, tough on crime charade. Don't forget, the security forces ie. various police depts. get to keep the water cannons, LRAD sound weapons, etc. and now have a taste for blood. Canada 'had' a reputation as a peacemaker, from the days of PM Pearson's brokering of the Suez canal crisis in the 50s. That got him a Nobel prize. We have been present in Cyprus, Congo, Golan Heights, Rwanda (Romeo Dallaire) and put our troops in harm's way in many 'hotspots' to help keep the peace. Things have changed. We are starting to be regarded as a belligerent nation. Shooting wars can do that. If our citizens are beat up, harassed, insulted on our streets ,then detained unjustly, then something is very wrong. If this isn't a wake-up call, I don't know what is. Sure there have been police and military actions against the citizens before (Oka-Khanesetake, Gustafsen Lake, Tyendinaga, Ipperwash ), but that was an 'Indian' thing... guess what ? Now we are all Natives and have become fair game for the heavy handed agenda being implemented by those in power and their armed agents. It's up to us to either roll over and go back to sleep, or make our voices heard. A lot is at stake... namely the future of this beautiful country... |
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09 Jul 10 - 09:30 AM (#2942324) Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident From: Sandy Mc Lean Well bankley, Pearson was cut from much different cloth than he who sits in the seat of power today! Harper put the "get together" in Toronto and for that he needs his arse kicked right out of office! Sadly I can also think of many other reasons to kick him out as well! Problem is that other arseholes waiting in the wings would probably take his place! |