G20 Protest in Toronto goes out of hand
06-26-2010 at 04:35 PM
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In china or the USA, if you trash and burn the police cruiser like that you would be shot.
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I hate the Canadian justice system. |
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06-26-2010 at 04:37 PM
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I hate the Canadian justice system.
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Me too, but I also try to remeber there are a lot worse out there. |
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06-26-2010 at 04:38 PM
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Only in Canada..
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Or any other Western democracy... |
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06-26-2010 at 04:42 PM
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Only in Canada. Hard to imagine the same thing happening if this summit was held somewhere in China.
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My Dad said that like a minute before I saw it posted here, lol.
Most transit has shut down, and the Eaton Centre and Sick Kids are both on lockdown.
http://www.680news.com/news/local/ar...re-on-lockdown
EDIT: Mt. Sinai and Princess Margaret's went into lockdown as well.
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06-26-2010 at 04:45 PM
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06-26-2010 at 04:49 PM
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And people wonder why there was so much security,
Given the history of the groups involved I am not surprised that they have gone violent.
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06-26-2010 at 04:53 PM
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And people wonder why there was so much security,
Given the history of the groups involved I am not surprised that they have gone violent.
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And throwing more cops at it seems to have kept the peace just wonderfully. |
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06-26-2010 at 04:55 PM
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And throwing more cops at it seems to have kept the peace just wonderfully.
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The majority of protesters are being peaceful, though.
It's a bunch of ****tards that are ruining the city right now.
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06-26-2010 at 04:57 PM
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And throwing more cops at it seems to have kept the peace just wonderfully.
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Hahah so what are we supposed to do? Let them storm the Convention Centre and kill the heads of state. There are some of them who want to do that.
Similarly there's a lot of them that just want to blow up anything belonging to a corporation, government, individual etc.
You have to know if there were no police there it would be a million times worse.
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06-26-2010 at 05:01 PM
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Horrible stuff. Right when I'm watching the Ghana vs. USA game (yay Ghana  ) too. Seems to have calmed down a bit compared to what it was an hour ago. Damn anarchist Black Bloc. |
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06-26-2010 at 05:19 PM
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I think a lot of the causes the peaceful protests stand for are very necessary to bring attention to (i.e the safe abortion issue in African countries, poverty, protection of homosexuals in some countries, etc).
The violent protests, on the other hand, ... wtf? Being an anarchist is not the way to go if you want to see change in this world.
I was so devastated when I found out they smashed windows of an Urban Outfitters and an American Apparel. :(
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06-26-2010 at 05:24 PM
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They attacked Futureshop man! Thats the line right there. I hope they get what they deserve.
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06-26-2010 at 05:25 PM
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I was so devastated when I found out they smashed windows of an Urban Outfitters and an American Apparel. :(
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Yeah because that's so devastating.  I think they will both recover just fine
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06-26-2010 at 05:26 PM
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I don't think it's fair to group all those people into the single category of protesters. The people that are actually causing property damage should be called anarchists instead.
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06-26-2010 at 05:32 PM
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Man, I don't get why the cops don't just beat the shit out of those black bloc douches. They have batons/clubs, amirite?
I heard an interview with one of them earlier, and the guy was like "No man, you got it all wrong. We're only smashing government and big company property, who can afford the damage. Down with big companies! WOOOO!!"
In other words,
"HURRRRRRRR DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! !!!"
If it were up to me, I'd just give Darwin's theory a helping hand and line them up in front of a firing squad.
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