...The age-old tricks of fear and scapegoating worked their magic that week, as they always do.
...The G20’s legacy is a reminder to Canadian citizens of our need to vigilantly patrol our rights, particularly in the face of fear and propaganda.
Charter rights are like marriages. Their true worth is measured during sickness, not health.
What haunts me is not that the police and politicians trampled our rights during the G20. It’s that we let them do it so passively
Quote from Catherine Porter Commenting on the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010 and the brutal unnecessary response of the police and citizens allowing the authorities to trample on our freedom of speech.
G20 Summit: We passively let police and politicians trample our rights by catherine Porter at The Star.com, May 18, 2012
Rights and Freedoms of Canadian Citizenry under attack by Quebec Law making protests illegal???
First they came for the students and protesters then they will go after all citizens who are not connected to the top 1%.
We the people have been put on notice that those in authority will not permit open public dissent.
Either you support all of the governments agenda and legislation or you are to be deemed UnCanadian and a traitor and terrorist.
Quebec adopts emergency law
May 18, 2012Shows The National
Quebec's legislature has voted in favour of an emergency law aimed at cooling tensions in the 14-week tuition hike crisis. Student groups and some legal experts call it an infringement on basic rights
And 12 year old schools economists and Bankers and other fraudsters and hoodlums the men in over-priced 3,000 dollar Armani suits and the women in designer clothes and 2000 dollar shoes from Prada.
12-year-old Ontario girl slams modern banking system, becomes YouTube hit Canadian Press via The Star.com , may 16, 2012
TORONTO — Canada’s banking system has been the subject of international praise from economists grappling with global turmoil, but one 12-year-old girl begs to differ.
Victoria Grant of Cambridge, Ont. is earning a reputation as a financial pundit after her tirade against her homeland’s borrowing practices went viral on YouTube.
Grant is already a veteran of the financial lecture circuit, but her appearance on April 27 is garnering unusual attention. A video of her address, shot at the Public Banking in America Conference in Philadelphia, has already attracted nearly 65,000 views since being posted a week ago.
Bernie Sanders "The Truth Is Wall Street Regulates Congress"
Austerity measures in context. The top 1% created this economic crisis and are not held accountable . Instead these bloody geniuses after accepting trillions in bail outs are insisting that the status quo remain. They took their bail outs and have insisted that the government not regulate them at all. Meanwhile their supporters in in positions of political power still defend these crooks and fraudsters. We could also refer to them as domestic terrorists who's agenda was to make as much money as they could while destroying the US economy and that of dozens of other countries.
So the solution the citizenry is told is to shrink government cut back on programs which have a positive effect on society. Such as education so that schools and Universities are not to be run as a means to educate but rather their first priority must be profit.
G20 Summit: We passively let police and politicians trample our rights by catherine Porter at The Star.com, May 18, 2012
Catherine Porter in her latest column says what bothers her most about the G20 in 2010 was how easily Canadians were duped into allowing the government and police to trample on their basic rights and freedoms.
But many of us are not surprised by the response of authorities and police to legal peaceful protesters.
What haunts me about the G20 is not that grotesque summer weekend of mass arrests and shivering shoppers penned in for hours in the rain at Queen St. and Spadina Ave. It’s not even John Pruyn, the Christmas tree farmer who lost his leg in a gruesome accident 19 years ago. He had come to Toronto to protest with his daughter. They were sitting in the so-called “free-speech zone” at Queen’s Park that Saturday afternoon when riot police — many of whom had peeled off their nametags — attacked the crowd. Pruyn was treated like a wild dog: jumped, handcuffed, his prosthetic leg ripped off and then instructed, as if for sport, to hop to the police van.
That memory pricks my eyes with shame.
What haunts me about the G20, though, is my city’s atmosphere the week leading up to international meeting.
The city felt like we were going to war, and according to our government we were — against the protesters-cum-terrorists.
When it was revealed that week that the province’s Liberal cabinet had passed a secret law permitting police to search anyone near the security zone, the only ones screaming bloody murder were members of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), notably its general counsel, Nathalie Des Rosiers.
The rest of us were just fine to forfeit our rights. We were frightened. We believed the always sage federal Conservative cabinet minister Stockwell Day who pronounced “anarchists and violent groups” were on their way and “they’re going to cause trouble.”
We didn’t mind that free speech, one of our most beloved charter rights, was penned in and relegated to a scrap of lawn.
Time and time again that week, I heard a variation of this phrase from otherwise thoughtful friends: “Whoever goes near that fence deserves to be arrested. There is no reason to be there. Everyone should stay home.”
...There were protests every day that week — gay-rights activists and folks against the oilsands. Their marches were boisterous and playful. But still, they were treated with suspicion — not just by the rows of riot cops who penned them in, but by the general public.
“I wasn’t even a protester,” I heard a few people say during the CCLA’s post-G20 hearings.
Protesters, they seemed to be saying, deserved to be jumped, maimed, made to hop . . . Then, on Saturday, a team of anarchists in black somehow evaded the 5,400 police officers swarming the city and smashed some windows on Yonge St. Instead of criticizing the incompetence of a police state, most people’s reaction was: “See, we were right to give up our rights.”
...The age-old tricks of fear and scapegoating worked their magic that week, as they always do.
...The G20’s legacy is a reminder to Canadian citizens of our need to vigilantly patrol our rights, particularly in the face of fear and propaganda.
Charter rights are like marriages. Their true worth is measured during sickness, not health.
What haunts me is not that the police and politicians trampled our rights during the G20. It’s that we let them do it so passively.
Where are grown-ups in Quebec student strike? Canadian Press, May 18, 2012
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