[Newsbot]

Title: Surveillance too heavy, G20 protesters say
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2010-06-11 20:17:30
Canadian

[Bacardi4206]

My mom works at Scotia bank near where the G20 is going to be held. Security is really tight. They are prepared to blackout the entire area, possibly city. Disable cellphones, etc. The bank had to get lan lines to communicate with each other incase of this.

However in regards to this article, rofl at one comment.

"“It seems like the police are targeting people of colour or those who are vulnerable.”"

Playing the race card? Very nice, targeting vulnerable people? Very nice, they'd say anything wouldn't they?. Being that these proterstors are known to trash the city they go too. I don't blame the CSIS for harassing them or putting up strict security measures. These organizers deserve all the crack downs on them, expecially after that idiotic comment. When they start respecting public property in there protests that only harm civilians and local buisness's and not the dudes they are protesting. Than I'd have sympathy for them and there protests.

[Regina]

If they spent more time working or looking for a job there wouldn't be any protesting.

[CommanderSock]

Haha what a douche, people of colour have nothing to protest against globalization.

Protesters will be 90% white. As always in every G-8/20 summit. It's basically a tea party with more pot-heads.

People of colour have benefited greatly from globalization and free trade over the past 20 years. It was Europeans/Americans that have really been hit harder from it (losses of jobs to 3rd world 'coloured' countries). Ghana and India aren't getting poorer ROFL.

Security is fine, I work right next to metro hall and there will be major blockades, and transport detours, but such is life.

A major event like this requires a heavy security presence.

[Regina]

Like I said in the other thread.........this is nothing. I was in Florence, Italy the day after the G-8 meetings finished and there were soldiers with machine guns on nearly every corner and road stop check points manned by the same throughout the region for the previous week too.

[Proculation]

I thought the 1 billion $ bill for security was precisely for that.

[commanderkai]

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

Protesters will be 90% white. As always in every G-8/20 summit. It's basically a tea party with more pot-heads.

Oh and more violence, liberals, hippies, and "activists".

[KorbenDeck]

commanderkai commanderkai:

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

Protesters will be 90% white. As always in every G-8/20 summit. It's basically a tea party with more pot-heads.

Oh and more violence, liberals, hippies, and "activists".

I love the G-8 meetings cause you get to watch these protesters throw rocks at cops then get their ass kicked in. After which they go and claim the police overreacted to their rock throwing

[Proculation]

commanderkai commanderkai:

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

Protesters will be 90% white. As always in every G-8/20 summit. It's basically a tea party with more pot-heads.

Oh and more violence, liberals, hippies, and "activists".

Another type of protesters are the neo-marxist student of an university who has rich parents and who has everything he wants.

[CommanderSock]

Proculation Proculation:

commanderkai commanderkai:

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

Protesters will be 90% white. As always in every G-8/20 summit. It's basically a tea party with more pot-heads.

Oh and more violence, liberals, hippies, and "activists".

Another type of protesters are the neo-marxist student of an university who has rich parents and who has everything he wants.

It's true.

Poor working class people are too busy being poor, and working, to take a day off in the middle of the week to throw fire crackers at riot police and smash the windows of boutiques.

[Khar]

I went ahead and read some of the old articles and comments and such on this organization's page and in the mainstream media and I am surprised that they are getting any airtime at all -- they seem to feel that any mass movement of people should not need to be noted to law enforcement and any single police officer showing up to where hundreds of them are is some form of police intimidation.

You have to love the worst protestors, because they chiefly run on two things -- victimization and a sense of entitlement, and I'm not sure if this organization in specific runs with that group, but they seem to have an inclination to do that. A lot of protestors fight for good things, sure, and have brought about good changes, but I find some protestors these days expect to get free range of whatever they want because they are an "activist," such as the willful destruction of bystanders personal property. I find too often that these people rely far too much on anger than on actual peaceful demonstrations.