Four police cars were torched, and the storefront windows across Toronto were shattered with baseball bats as violence erupted during protests at the G20 summit Saturday night and into the early hours of the morning.
The violence is disappointing, at best. After all, you would think that peaceful protesting would be possible during this meeting. The violence undoubtedly made for a very dangerous situation for world leaders, and if one of them had been hurt in the protests there could have been serious repercussions.
The people of Toronto are embarrassed, as this is not indicative of how citizens of the city act. Toronto is a world class city,and is known as one of the cleanest in the world.
The main focus of authorities around the protests were keeping citizens of Toronto, delegates, and media affiliates safe and sound.
The G20 summit discussed mainly financial policies. The world economic situation has worsened over the past couple of years, extending from America to the Eurozone and beyond.
Advanced economies have vowed to halve deficits by 2013, and stabilize Debt to GDP ratios by 2016. The world has its work cut out for them.
Just one question...how do they plan to go about doing that, given the current unemployment rates and basic economic conditions? Will taxes be raised? Will the burden fall unduly on America to fix the world's problems?
I do have to say that you are a little misinformed with your information. Ninety five percent of the protesters were peaceful and did no harm. Now on the other hand there were black hooded, black clothed hoodlums causing havoc through out the streets running around untouched.
ReplyDeleteTo the contrary, these individuals are hired to cause the problems, and to give the authorities the power to use brutal force to stop the protesters from their agenda. It is what has been done at other large protests in the past and have actually had an individual testify to being paid.
Think about it, its quite elementary my dear.
"The main focus of authorities around the protests were keeping citizens of Toronto, delegates, and media affiliates safe and sound."
In a repeat of scenes witnessed at last year’s G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, protesters in Toronto are being abducted off the streets and bundled into unmarked vehicles which are driven away at high speeds.
Several videos show police tackling protesters to the ground, cuffing them and then handing them over to unidentified casually dressed individuals who shove the demonstrators into unmarked black vans.
Police then randomly grab further protesters as more of the unmarked vehicles arrive on the scene.
Watch the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV5dG4zkE8k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZL3dc31YiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_HUnd4c4oE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XgEI5dCrE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlyxVJrvNuE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3y2nOlAj44
These videos, and many others uploaded to Youtube, clearly show police charging and attacking peaceful protesters and journalists, while in some cases black bloc anarchists have been allowed to rampage through the city unchallenged.
Prior to the G20 and G8 gatherings, Toronto police were given unprecedented powers to to arrest anyone near the security zone who refuses to identify themselves or agree to a police search.
It is not clear where the snatched protesters were taken, however it is assumed they were detained in the massive movie studio police have been using as a temporary jail. The building is roughly five kilometers from the Toronto Convention Center, outside the two security zones.
I have some other documentaries that you might be interested in watching and sharing with anyone you know. First a little something to read:
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/fed_reserve.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yx9NRX37SM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO24XmP1c5E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqv9t1zVww
Hope you enjoy :)
"The violence is disappointing, at best. After all, you would think that peaceful protesting would be possible during this meeting. The violence undoubtedly made for a very dangerous situation for world leaders, and if one of them had been hurt in the protests there could have been serious repercussions.
ReplyDeleteThe people of Toronto are embarrassed, as this is not indicative of how citizens of the city act. Toronto is a world class city,and is known as one of the cleanest in the world."
Really, you really think this is disappointing? How about the way authorities have abused their power by molesting and raping women that are being detained. Just watch this short video and many more are going to be popping up very soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcXhEd_mDt4