G20 Summit Toronto Protests, Live Twitter Coverage

I completely don't agree with what the violent protesters have done to our great city, yet the police have used unnecessary force in areas where these violent protesters were not present or were posing a threat.Yes, protesters may have been showing signs of persistence, but the police are trained in restraining their emotions, anger, frustrations and outwardly expressive views. Punching, pushing and using bikes as weapons to force people back when they clearly cannot move due to the great number of people, is completely wrong and unjustified. Control yourselves if you choose to take this role as a police officer. Officers, if it were your wife that just got pushed over bike racks, how would you feel? If it was your loved one that was trampled on, because a crowd was forcibly pushed, any remorse? Not all of those within the heavily congested areas were protesting. Your quick, without-thinking response puts people in more danger than safety.

Protests must be expected when so-called leaders gather to protect interests not of the men on street but those of bandits and neo-robber-barons,who are backed by IMF,WB.Reform has changed its meanings;now it means plunder sanctioned by law.What once our Prime Minister,a WB,IMF and US imperialists' protege,Dr.Singh said and which was highlighted by corporate owned and controlled media,about economic reforms made me laugh.He sid to my utter amusement"reforms with human face".Has any one heard of plunder with human face?

All this is making everyone miss the real message.  At least David Miller can justify why he spend soo much money for this.

1/ why would anyone want to protest a economic summit that is trying to get the 20 richest nations working together to bring some balance back after the global crash. 2/ why would anyone want to breach a security area? 3/ why do this people want to make the already stressful nature of this type of high level security more so and antagonize the Police force who are only trying to do the job we ask of them?4/ who are these sh!*heads and why can we just shoot them? They have 364 other days to show us all how cool they are.

Because these losers blame their failures on everyone but themselves and it is a excuse to riot. There is no possible other explanation. Blaming capitalism for this? As opposed to what? They prefer a Marxist state where everyone starves and they get shot like in China?

I'm reminded of the Russian Czar. He was told the province with the largest number of deaths also had the largest number of doctors, to which he replied "execute the doctors!" So is it true with crime and police. Which came first and caused the other? Well, have you ever seen the per capita crime rates for pre-WW2 America? Why are countries that have, per capita, a hundredth of the police presence also experiencing a thousandth of the crime levels? There is -zero- correlation between police presence and crime. (In Freakonomics, Levitt actually posits that legalization of abortion - 1973 - was the reason for the fall of crime starting in 1991 - 18 years later). 

That is a very specific example addressing only "police," but really I think the confusion is the notion that these guys need an alternative agenda in order to shake off the current. Now, I am ready to agree with you until I realize that that sounds like a very, very dubious justification for our current system. Is that really the only reason we should swallow it, because....what's better? What are we, the 18th century Irish after the potato famine of political ideal? I don't need to have utopia set up already in order to know that the 10 ft steel fence doesn't belong around a building I've loved for 25 years - and I should be able to have a say if I've paid for both.

The g-20 decicions will insure that the poor pay the price for the Masters of the Universe's fricking mistakes again. I wish someone would blow up the entire "world class hotel".

the ' fence'  isn't there for no good reason. people have a right to express their beliefs outside of the fenced areas and the people inside the fenced area have an equal right to security and to express themselves. both are subject to the law. however those behind the fence will also have to face the electorate for their decisions. 

We have a strong democracy in Canada - a strong economy and a strong willingness on the part of the citizenry to be reasonable. Our government, however has chosen to restrict our civil liberties, democratic freedoms and human rights in favour of some very despotic laws, giving the police with virulently un-democratic powers. Why our government would think that using the powers that undemocratic countries such as China has, would somehow make us stronger, is beyond me. Democracy is the strongest of all forms of government. Just look at the countries which embrace democracy. We are the most powerful. Why stoop to use a weaker form of government when we've already got the strongest. I'll never know. All I know is that when our Supreme Court of Canada gets hold of these undemocratic powers given the police, they'll raise hell and put bricks under it. We have a constitution (we call it our Bill of Rights) and it specifically prohibits the kinds of powers the government has given the police. Let me give you an example of one of the laws passed by the Province of Ontario - the evidence of the police is conclusive in prosecutions under that law. How stupid is that.

What is there to protest? They have nothing better to do? They're unemployed losers?My God... The world's elite is gonna have a field day with you people. You really haven't got a clue of what is going on in this world do you? I suggest all of you stop reading newspapers, stop watching television, stop buying into corporate lies, and a god damn book!Open your goddamn eyes before you die. This planet is run by scumbags. They gather at meetings such as the G20, Bilderberg, CFR, Trilateral Commision, G8, you fucking name it. They are coporate scumbags who don't give a flying fuck about you or your family. They are the people to blame for poverty around the world, for wars around the world, for sponsoring terrorism, for robbing countries of their natural resources.Wake up and smell the goddamn fish! We live in a fascist world, only it's not so fucking obvious like in Nazi Germany! It's soooooo much more sophisticated. Nobody seems to notice and nobody seems to care. These protesters do care. They care about their future, about the future of their children and their loved ones.Seriously people, WAKE THE FUCK UP! If you don't and choose to live your life as mindless sheep who buy into anything these fucking criminals have to say your lives will become less and less free and you will see your children and grandchildren grow up in a world that could be portrayed as a boot stamping on a human face forever.Search for the goddamn term: New World Order. So many 'leaders' have said we need this so bad the last couple of years. The world will be doomed without it! Bush Sr. said it in 1990 on SEPTEMBER 11 in his speech to congress. Tony Blair spoke about, Gordon Brown spoke about it, H.G. Wells even wrote a book called "The New World Order", Hitler spoke about it, Nelson Rockfeller spoke about it, Pope Paul VI spoke about it, Robert F. Kennedy spoke about it, Richard Nixon spoke about it, Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke about it, David Rockefeller spoke about it, Henry Kissinger spoke about it, Bush Jr spoke about it, Bill Clinton spoke about it, Colin Powell spoke about it, the list goes on and on and on and on and on!!!And people dare calling it conspiracy theories... They have a plan of creating a world government, a world bank, a world currency and a world religion. And all of this will be run by the tiny group of elite people who already basically run the world. Do you realize that charity is obsolete? If you take the wealth of the British and Dutch royal families, combine that with the Rockefeller and Rothschild wealth, you have enough money to pay for anything anybody on this planet needs: Food, a home, clothes.Bill Gates the richest person on the planet? Get fucking real... His Billions are peanuts compared to the wealth of these people. They have 1000's of Trillions.Instead that wealth is divided amongst a group of people whose numbers don't even add up to a 1000. Yet we continue to believe and support their bullshit about the need for a world government, the bullshit about taxes because of man-made global warming, the bullshit about global terrorism, etc etc etc etc.These people are the terrorists. They are they con-artists who have been folling the people of this planet for ages. It's time to wake up and make a stand.

"Canada must be a very dangerous country for world leaders." HA - not realy. Its democracy. many leaders would say a bill or thing gets past cause they seen no protest.  Sure wish it was the ol days when numbers ment something.