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2010 Olympic Security Unit bares its teeth; warning to protesters
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by TDH | January 23, 2009 at 10:29 am
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RCMP Assistant Commissioner Bud Mercer, commander of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games' Integrated Security Unit, is warning potential protesters of the games to keep it clean.
"We have an obligation and a responsibility to support and facilitate lawful protests, and we will do everything we can to do that,"
"But when protests become unlawful, those incidents will be dealt with quickly,"
The Olympic Resistance Network, one of the most adamant resisters of the Games, has invited activists from around the world to unite under their slogan,
"No Olympics on
Stolen Native Land", while creating an opportunity for all anti-capitalist, indigenous, anti-poverty, labour, migrant justice, environmental justice, anti-war, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents.
Commissioner Mercer states that the ISU is working to facilitate democratic protests of the Games, even suggesting the possiblity of "protest zones".
"We're looking for an understanding of where they'd like to stand, where they'd like to sit, and how we can help facilitate that," he said. "We're looking for any opportunity at all to be engaged to help them."
But most protesting groups want nothing to do with ISU. The Anti-Poverty Committee, another regular Olympic disturber, has defended their preferred resistance tactic, "disruption," claiming it to be their most successful form of protest. A "protest zone" hardly fits with this form of anti-Olympic movement and will probably do nothing to limit it.
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at 12:22 on January 23rd, 2009
Also, "protest zones" tend not to be all that close to the events that get protested. RNC in New York, anyone?
at 12:33 on January 23rd, 2009
...the "protest zones" in Beijing:
at 14:30 on January 23rd, 2009
Stolen Native Land", while creating an opportunity for all anti-capitalist, indigenous, anti-poverty, labour, migrant justice, environmental justice, anti-war, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents.
I think there is a simple term for these types....people too lazy to find jobs.
at 21:21 on January 23rd, 2009
Imagine in a democratic country that purports to support legitimate, political protest as a part of that democracy. Are we really going to allow our civic, provincial and federal governments to shut down the citizenry in order to protect an obviously undemocratic, elitist organization, the International Olympic Committee?
at 05:44 on January 25th, 2009
Whistler-Vancouver 2010 will be the best winter games of the history! You can see more in http://flickr.com/photos/blues_traveler/ Greetings from Brazil
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at 22:12 on January 25th, 2009
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at 09:00 on January 26th, 2009
Good idea. That way all the losers will be in prison by the time the Olympics start.