BS: a sad G20 incident

Subject: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: PHJim
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 11:07 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 02:30 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: JohnB
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 02:58 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 03:20 PM

Yeesh!   :0(

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 03:55 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 04:13 PM

I don't believe a word of it. Untill it's proven, I say it's garbage.

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:09 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:29 PM

'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

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:35 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:37 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:39 PM

Here's a clicky

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 05:47 PM

Good lord.... could this actually have happened? No... please no. I feel physically ill. And ashamed.

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 06:03 PM

Photos

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 06:12 PM

"The police are not there to prevent disorder. They are there to preserve disorder."
                                     --Richard Daley the 1st of Chicago
                                       1968

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 06:15 PM

Just sent an email to my MP and to Harper. I am beside myself. I am sickened.

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 06:33 PM

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).

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 06:44 PM

Totally appalling!

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: bobad
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 07:15 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 08:57 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 10:37 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 11:16 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 08:42 AM

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...

Subject: RE: BS: a sad G20 incident
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 09:30 AM

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!