Violent Protest in Toronto

[Shakey]

The G20 Summit is taking place in Toronto this weekend and the Black Block protesters have burned two police cars and smashed countless windows of businesses in the area.

It's a shame I wasn't in charge today!

Here is a link to some more photos.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/toronto/protests-turn-violent-storefronts-smashed-police-cars-set-ablaze/article1619460/

[chargergirl]

Never understood how that type of behavior was conducive to being listened to.

[Ghoste]

Are those the same retards that blew up a bank a month or so ago?

[maxwellwedge]

Those "anarchists" need to have their knee caps broken with their own bats. Then do the same for the government who spent over a billion for nothing more than a photo-op session........but I digress..

[ChgrSteve67]

Some people just look for an excuse to tear up others property.

Looks like a good time to rob the rest of the city blind since all of the cops are occupied

Personally I think the police should have just tear gassed the entire block, then arested the crying babies, slap chains on their legs and hand them brooms and garbage bags so they can clean up the mess.

After that another 200 hours of community service sounds pretty good.

This is not civilized behavior.

[maxwellwedge]

I like your ideas as well! 

[RD]

well, if you all could carry concealed weapons i bet that shit wouldnt have happened   hehe j/k

If I saw stuff like that happening to my neighborhood, well.. lets just say the black block protesters would be black and blue concussion victims.

[Arthu®]

I hate it when other people destroy other people's property.

[Old Moparz]

I was in Canada a long time ago, the place must have went down hill since then.

[Ponch ®]

I was in Canada a long time ago, the place must have went down hill since then.

ever since they cancelled the Avro Arrow...

[Ghoste]

I was in Canada a long time ago, the place must have went down hill since then.

I blame socialism.

[twodko]

The black block "anarchists" are nothing more than criminals. The answer........shotguns.

Tom

[maxwellwedge]

Those Bass-tard-o's will go and have gone to any city that is hosting a G8 or G20 summit to cause trouble.

[maxwellwedge]

I was in Canada a long time ago, the place must have went down hill since then.

ever since they cancelled the Avro Arrow...

Good one Ponch!     That was a hell of a plane!

[Mike DC]

 
Funny how useful those BBs seem to be.  They help justify the security expenses of the big hoopla while simultaneously de-legitimizing the idea of protesting the meetings.  All for the price of a few burned cars & smashed windows.



 

[maxwellwedge]

Do I smell another Michael Moore movie? 

[Ponch ®]

Do I smell another Michael Moore movie? 

No...I had a burrito for lunch. Sorry.

[chargergirl]

Do I smell another Michael Moore movie? 

No the Democrats are running the country...he would never!

[nh_mopar_fan]

Michael Kelly was one of my favorite columnists. He was killed in Iraq while embedded with our troops.

This is one of my favorite columns of his about the G20 when it was in Seattle.

Pretty much says it all for me.

Michael Kelly

Imitation Activism

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ -- THE WEATHER in Washington was
dismal on Monday, raw and chilly with a driving rain under skies that
never brightened beyond slate. Ah, it did my heart good. Thinking, in
the comfort of my office, of how miserable--how wet, how cold, how
thoroughly, splendidly wretched--must be the tens of thousands of
magenta-haired nose-ringers who, in their great crusade to stop the
world's finance ministers from doing lunch, had taken a hard-pressed
police department away from its long, losing battle to protect the
city's poor from the city's predators, I felt toasty and happy and at
one with a just world.

Children--you over there dropping your Gap trousers in front of the Gap
store to protest Gap labor policies, and you, protest organizer Mary
Bull with the plastic foam tree on your head--may I mention a few
things? (1) Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery; it is the
sincerest form of imitation. (2) That whole thing your parents did back
then--you know, the revolution in the streets, the trashing of the
dean's office, the purposely shocking sartorial and tonsorial styles,
the stoned grooving to bad pretentious music, the nakedness and the
love-ins--well, it was pretty stupid the first time around. An awful
lot of it was just about getting wasted and getting together with young
women with perfect noses and ironed blond hair; the rest was about
getting even with daddy and mommy, for his crime of making money and
her sin of keeping house. (3) Your dad at least had a compelling reason
for, like, trashing The System, man; he was trying to do his bit to
stop the war in Vietnam before his second college deferment ran out and
the government, like, hauled him out of Yale and sent him off to
Vietnam to get himself all shot up, as if he were the son of a plumber
or something. In terms of antagonizing large policemen with clubs,
this, boys and girls, was a cause on an order of magnitude different
from saving sea turtles.

Actually, kids, not to be rude about it, but it must by now have
occurred to the swifter among you that you don't possess anything that
can coherently be called a cause. I quote from an admirably restrained
Associated Press dispatch concerning the arrest on Monday of some 500
to 600 demonstrators "by police obliging their wish to be taken into
custody."

"The demonstrators blame the global lenders for problems from
environmental damage to sweatshop labor. But they came for causes
ranging far beyond those complaints: for animal rights, against nuclear
weapons, for District of Columbia statehood, against sending Elian
Gonzalez back to Cuba, for more AIDS research. . . . What they wanted
seemed to depend on who was chanting loudest.

" 'What do we want?' a young woman called. 'Justice,' the crowd
replied. A few minutes later, the street crowd was singing the anthem
of the civil rights movement, 'We Shall Overcome.' Then a debt
forgiveness chant."

"Then a debt forgiveness chant." On Aug. 28, 1963, when I was 6 years
old, I stood with my mother and my sister Kate on the sidewalk in front
of my parents' house at 404 Constitution Ave. on Capitol Hill, and we
watched a quarter of a million people walk by, on their way to hear the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in his oddly soft roar, speak the words
that would break Jim Crow. It was a boiling day, and the marchers, who
were formally dressed, the men in suits and often hats and the women in
dresses and, often, gloves, suffered. Our mother had made great amounts
of lemonade, and we stood on the sidewalk and ladled out cups of the
stuff from a big metal pot in which floated a big block of ice, to the
men and women who walked solemnly and magnificently by, singing "We
Shall Overcome," which they did not follow with a chant on debt
forgiveness.

As an adolescent during the Vietnam War years, I came to admiringly see
myself as passionately anti-war (although I couldn't have told you what
the war was about). But even as I demonstrated, and tried to get myself
a little bit tear-gassed and mildly arrested, I vaguely knew there was
something awful in the presumption of we young white privileged things,
who filled the Mall in the years after King's marchers had gone, that
we occupied anything like the same moral plane.

How much more awful is this, now, a generational imitation of a
generational imitation of a form of politics that was once reserved for
matters of life and death--and is now reserved for that space between
spring break and summer vacation, and between the last body-piercing
and the first IPO.

[Ghoste]

Wow.

[RD]

the truth is always powerful, though often set aside to allow for a convoluted interpretation of a false reality so that those who desire purpose in their lives find it by way of self-gratification, prideful aggrandizement, and through the usage of others.

[Darkman]

If you're going to go to the trouble of shooting plastic bullets, may as well use the real thing, then maybe some of these dirtbags will learn.

When has a protest EVER stopped any kind of summit? 

[chargergirl]

If you're going to go to the trouble of shooting plastic bullets, may as well use the real thing, then maybe some of these dirtbags will learn.

When has a protest EVER stopped any kind of summit? 

Cannot shoot them it only furthers there alleged cause. nh_mopar_fan...AMEN! I hear the sounds of inept minds flapping in the breeze they know nothing, or at best, very little about. If you won't save the whales then forgive my debt...This generation has been raised to be full of self esteem without ANY self efficacy. Schools have been forced to make children to feel good about themselves without any reason behind it. You are special! You are wonderful! Without cause or reason doesn't do a child good. Teaching them they are special and wonderful because they have skills, reason, compassion that is true self efficacy that leads to real self esteem. Self esteem without cause leads to a sense of entitlement that is not due these ego-centric, id in control dweezles. Apologies...I digress.