Mon 28 Jun 2010
G20 gives Toronto a black eye
Posted by Canada / Pat Morin under Balkers
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These global paranoids come out of the woodwork at every summit of international leaders now. All the G20’s, climate summits like Copenhagen, just like clockwork.
I have to say it was more of a self-fulfilling prophecy this time. Most of the protestors are peaceful. Woven in there are always few troublemakers who are not there to promote any issue. The police and host government know that, so they show up in force. Then a few thugs start something, as they did this weekend in Toronto with some windows broken out and car or trash can fires, etc, etc.
The media shows the vandalism and announces a crowd size (10,000 or more for Saturday), making it look like a big riot. When actually it’s still just that few doing all the damage. The police are already there by the hundreds, then they overreact to the few troublemakers and start manhandling people who are peaceful!
