G 20 Meeting In Totonto

[give her dixie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJPY-ZOtcS0

Big Brother at work in Toronto for the G20 meetings.

[mournerambler]

is the lone ranger going to?

[The Real Laoislad]

Another PING driver ? They only just released the G15

[Gabriel_Hurl]

570 arrests so far - yesterday was madness

[Hurler on the Bitch]

I wish I had rich parents that could bankroll me (of course they think I am on a gap year) and let me protest at these meetings! Get a job and a life m***** middleclass ******s!

[give her dixie]

I have been watching a few video's from yesterday.

Toronto was turned into a complete "Policed State" whereby secret laws were passed
that allowed the 20,000 police on duty to arrest people on any number of charges,
including using a camera within 5 metres of security fences. Over $1 billion
was spent on security for the G20 meeting.

Of course there were the usual trouble makers, who smashed many windows in banks,
Starbucks and Mc Donalds among others. This behaviour really weakens the peaceful
demonstrators position, and tarnished the march. However, the group who carried out
most of the violence is known as the "Black Bloc". They come well prepared to protests,
and carry out it's fair share of violence. They are well known to have undercover
police within their ranks, so the more trouble the better.


Every year, the G20 meets in major cities, and these cities get to pass new laws,
and allow the police to make mass arrests. Remember London last year?
They could meet in a country venue, however, the Governments wouldn't get to
invent and implement these new Orwellian laws.

As growing economic and civil unrest all over the world spreads further, these laws will be
used to surpress any form of protest, or protesters. There is already a bill before Stormont
that will make it illegal to hold rallies or demonstrations without 30 days notice.

The policed state is upon us, and we will just have to get used to living with it, as protesting
against will only lead to arrest.

Below are a few clips from yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaYbq484abs&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3nCoNvldk&feature=player_embedded

[Gabriel_Hurl]

However, the group who carried out most of the violence is known as the "Black Bloc".

There's no such group as the Black Bloc

[give her dixie]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/missing-the-point-in-toronto-97288479.html

Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION

Missing the point in Toronto
By: Editorial

28/06/2010 1:00 AM

Sometimes it seems as if Canadians are the comfortably smug and self-satisfied hobbits of this world and Canada its sheltered Shire. Occasionally a Dark Rider passes through and sends tremors throughout the media, but mostly it is pretty quiet and complacent.

A recent survey of world attitudes towards Canada indicates that Canadians, at least, do tend to think of themselves that way, with a majority regarding themselves as superior to most other people in most of the ways that count, and think of Canada as being better than most other nations. On that last point, they are probably right. Canada is the Shire of the world, sheltered under the American umbrella and hardly able to hold a good riot even if it really wants to.

Last weekend, however, was one of those "Dark Rider" moments, when men and women dressed in black tried to turn Toronto the Good into Toronto the Troubled by disrupting the G20 summit that was taking place there on Saturday and Sunday. They didn't succeed; in fact, even by the standards of G8 summits, which have produced some dandy riots, it wasn't much of a show, which was a little surprising, considering that the G8 leaders had met almost uneventfully in Huntsville, Ont., the day before going to Toronto for the G20.

But it was certainly a media event. Watching the non-stop coverage on the network news channels and reading about the protests and demonstrations in the newspapers, one might have thought that the whole country was in chaos. In reality, what we witnessed was a modest disruption in the usual tranquillity of Toronto. Protesters never came close to their purported targets of the G20 leaders meeting behind the fence in what became hyperbolically known as Fortress Toronto, and those leaders hardly seemed to be aware of the commotion in the streets outside.

The police did a good job of keeping order, as Canadians might have hoped they would, given that security for the two summits cost about $1 billion. By Sunday evening, around 600 protesters had been arrested. Most of them will be released without being charged with anything since their offences largely consisted of refusing to obey police instructions and making obscene gestures at peace officers. This is hardly the stuff that revolutions are made of.

More serious, perhaps, are the so-called Black Bloc anarchists who show up routinely at international meetings. What exactly they want from the world, other than anarchy, is difficult to guess but the anarchists are the authors and the inciters of most of the violence. Many of them have been arrested and should face serious jail time if convicted. The main streets of Toronto are still covered with broken glass from meaningless vandalism orchestrated by the Black Bloc.

In the meantime, it was easy to forget that what this weekend was actually about was the double summit, first of the G8, the world's most powerful industrialized nations, and second of the G20, which is attempting to establish itself as the organizer and engine of the world's economy.

In the end, neither accomplished very much, but realistically, however high they may claim to set their sights, they are not expected to. The G8 agreed on aid for maternal health in the Third World, a Canadian initiative. What will become of it remains to be seen. The G20 agreed to an initiative to cut deficits that was proposed by Canada, and submitted to Canadian objections to a universal bank tax in favour of individual national plans. Canada, under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's hospitality, emerged from the weekend with its stature enhanced.

It is entirely possible that nothing concrete may come of all this. But what can come of it is collegiality, the leaders of the world talking face to face -- it was fascinating, for example, to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev engaged in an animated conversation (what language, one wonders were they speaking; English perhaps). And out of that collegiality can come relationships that might further world peace and prosperity.

[give her dixie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apvCHIGrrDE

Video of the Black Bloc in action in Toronto at the weekend.

[give her dixie]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUR20100627&articleId=19928

More info on the "Black Bloc", and how undercover police officers work within this group.

[give her dixie]

Whatever you do, do not sing "Oh Canada" in Toronto...........................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXoE9VGabKA&feature=player_embedded

[Tony Baloney]

I have been watching a few video's from yesterday.

Toronto was turned into a complete "Policed State" whereby secret laws were passed
that allowed the 20,000 police on duty to arrest people on any number of charges,
including using a camera within 5 metres of security fences. Over $1 billion
was spent on security for the G20 meeting.

Of course there were the usual trouble makers, who smashed many windows in banks,
Starbucks and Mc Donalds among others. This behaviour really weakens the peaceful
demonstrators position, and tarnished the march. However, the group who carried out
most of the violence is known as the "Black Bloc". They come well prepared to protests,
and carry out it's fair share of violence. They are well known to have undercover
police within their ranks, so the more trouble the better.


Every year, the G20 meets in major cities, and these cities get to pass new laws,
and allow the police to make mass arrests. Remember London last year?
They could meet in a country venue, however, the Governments wouldn't get to
invent and implement these new Orwellian laws.

As growing economic and civil unrest all over the world spreads further, these laws will be
used to surpress any form of protest, or protesters. There is already a bill before Stormont
that will make it illegal to hold rallies or demonstrations without 30 days notice.

The policed state is upon us, and we will just have to get used to living with it, as protesting
against will only lead to arrest.

Below are a few clips from yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaYbq484abs&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3nCoNvldk&feature=player_embedded

If the protesters all sat in the house it wouldn't cost $1 billion or security and people wouldn't get arrested due to these newly created "Orwellian laws".

[Declan]

Interesting article here. 

When Police Stick to Phony Script
by Catherine Porter
They call it the Miami Model.

But it could be called the Genoa model, the Pittsburgh model and, after this weekend, the Toronto model.

It refers to police tactics used in Miami seven years ago, during the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit, and, more importantly, the protests erupting on the streets outside.

Manny Diaz, Miami's then-mayor, called the police methods exemplary — a model to be followed by homeland security when confronting protesters.

Human rights groups including Amnesty International called it a model of police brutality and intimidation.

Protesters were beaten with tear gas, sticks, rubber bullets . . . You can watch police stun cowering protesters with Tasers on YouTube. Last year, the city agreed it had trampled citizens' right to free speech by forcing marchers back from planned protests and settled out of court with Amnesty International.

What is the Miami Model?

I called Naomi Archer to find out. She is an indigenous rights worker from North Carolina who happened to be giving a lecture on the Miami Model yesterday at the U.S. Social Forum — the G20 for community activists.

Archer, who was in Miami as a liaison between protesters and police, has a 40-box checklist to identify the Model. Here are the main themes.

•  Information warfare. This starts weeks before the event. Protesters are criminalized and dehumanized, and described as dangerous "anarchists" and "terrorists" the city needs to defend against.

"Often, a faux cache is found," says Archer. "They are usually ordinary objects, like bike inner tubes, camping equipment, but the police make them out to look threatening. It lays the groundwork for police to be violent and it means there's a reduced accountability of law enforcement."

• Intimidation. Police start random searches of perceived protesters before any large rallies. They are asked where they are staying, why they are walking around. Police raid organizer's homes or meeting places, "usually just before the summit, so there's maximum chaos organizers have to deal with," says Archer.

"All this is meant to dissuade participants. The best way to make sure you don't have a critical mass of people taking over the streets like in Seattle is to reduce the numbers at the outset."

This is usually made possible by last-minute city regulations, curtailing the right to protest. In Miami, the city commission passed a temporary ordinance forbidding groups of more than seven to congregate for more than 30 minutes without a permit.

•  "They threw rocks." That's the line police use after tear-gassing or beating protesters most times, Archer says. Urine and human feces are variations on the theme. But it's always the protesters who triggered the violence. A popular police tactic is called "kettling." Officers on bike or horses herd protesters into an enclosed space, so they can't leave without trying to break through the police line. Take the bait; you provoke a beating or arrest. And of course, there are the famous agent provocateurs, outted publicly two years ago in Montebello. Police officers dressed up like militant protesters to protect the peaceful crowd, they say; Archer says it's to instigate trouble.

In Montebello, one of the three cops dressed in black was holding a rock.

"It's the same lies every single protest," she says. "It's justification by law enforcement for their violent actions. This is a propaganda war."

• Job well done. At the end, regardless of the bodies clogging the temporary holding cells and hospitals, the police always congratulate themselves. And by the time the cases go to court, the story is long forgotten and the circus has moved to a new unsuspecting town.

More than 270 people were arrested in Miami during the summit seven years ago . How many were convicted, in the end? I called the American Civil Liberties Union to find out.

"None," said lawyer Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, who was the president of the Miami chapter back then.

So far in Toronto, the police show has unrolled according to script; we've seen the propaganda, the cache, the intimidation, the secretive new regulations, the scary military arsenal. . . .

Next up, rocks. Will we all believe that one too?

© Copyright Toronto Star 1996-2010

[AZOffaly]

Whatever you do, do not sing "Oh Canada" in Toronto...........................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXoE9VGabKA&feature=player_embedded

I thought that was class the way the robocops just waited until the final bars of 'Stand on guard for Theeeeeeeee....' were fading away and then charged.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

They are nothing if not patriotic