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From where did the G20 protestors come?
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by YankeeJim | June 26, 2010 at 05:47 pm
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There is no doubt in the world that there is much for people to protest and complain about, directing anger at world leadership. But, for thousands to just “show up” in Canada begs the question: who are they?
Toronto and Canada is a peaceful place, it seems to me. Are all of these people pent up Canadians?
In this report there is only a glimpse of who may be involved as it mentions, “Saturday's protest march, sponsored by labor unions and dubbed family friendly, was the largest demonstration planned during the weekend summits. Its organizers had hoped to draw a crowd of 10,000, but only about half that number turned out on what was a rainy day.”
I don’t really think that organized labor is the source of the violence.
In another report it says:
“Small groups of protesters have clashed with police in Toronto as leaders from the world's richest nations and emerging economies gathered for the G20 summit.”
“While most protesters remained peaceful, television images primarily focused on so-called "anarchists" who had aimed to face off with police along the three-metre high barrier that encircles the G20 meeting site.””
The key identifier here is “anarchists.”
“Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.[1][2] It seeks to diminish or even abolish authority in the conduct of human relations.[3] Anarchists may widely disagree on what additional criteria are required in anarchism. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy says, "there is no single defining position that all anarchists hold, and those considered anarchists at best share a certain family resemblance."[4]””
Are they Canadian residents or are they visitors? Someone answer that.
“Thousands protest summit in Canada; vandals smash windows, torch police cars
Published June 26, 2010
TORONTO
TORONTO (AP) — Black-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful demonstrators protesting the G-20 global economic summit in Toronto, torching police cruisers and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers.”
"This isn't our Toronto and my response is anger," Toronto Mayor David Miller told CP24 television. "Every Torontonian should be outraged by this."
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at 18:32 on June 26th, 2010
99% of the protesters at g20 are peaceful, there is one group known as the black bloc anarchists that always show up to make trouble and discredit the legitimate protesters.
The news likes to pick up on the 10-20 people going around making trouble because it makes good news and ignores the thousands of people peacefully protesting.
You can always pick these people out with their all black clothing and handkerchiefs, none of the violence is done by actual protesters.
You will notice in all the videos depicting violence its always these fake anarchists dressed in all black.
examples:
1999 WTO
2004 DNC
2008, 2009, and 2010 G20
Also police have been caught provocateuring at the last three g20 protests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPFC7THiKho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow two days after this one Montreal Police admitted the men in the video were police officers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLfgbdkzBA
at 01:48 on June 27th, 2010
You are spot on Josh. The security mechanism has to be more effective at getting a bead on these people in advance.
at 11:20 on June 27th, 2010
What's troubling is that we know there are undercover cops in the crowd and they never intervene when the black bloc is provocateuring.
In fact if you watch the videos of the police cruisers being torched, you see uniformed police standing by and allowing it to happen.
at 11:25 on June 27th, 2010
I have seen stuff like that before too.
at 18:56 on June 26th, 2010
The genuine protestors never resort to voilence while ventilating their anger.They go voilent in extremely exceptional circumstances when police provokes them;the protestors retaliate,not initiate.Mostly hooligans and ruffians,paid agents of the corporate thugdom create disturbances to discredit the protestors.
"Exposing corporations-the way they have swallowed our public spaces,our ideas about rebellion and brought our politicians-...........It has become,in only few short years,an international contact sport.All over the world ,activists are saying..............We're not just going to feel bad about it.We are going to do something about it"-Naomi Klein in Fences and Windows.
So the protestors are doing something about it.Police,too,is doing something about it-protecting the dignified criminals,the leaders of participating countries.
at 01:49 on June 27th, 2010
TKK sometimes, but most often not provoked. The protesters beg the police as that is how they make news.
at 08:12 on June 27th, 2010
I don't think they are stupid, and they probably have a good education and come from affluent backgrounds. They are making a statement 1) because they can afford too, 2) have nothing to lose, and 3) gain from celebrity.
at 20:10 on June 26th, 2010
Undercover cops dressed as "anarchists" outed in Toronto 2010 G20 protests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-6cnGkp3Y
at 01:50 on June 27th, 2010
That supports TKK's notion.
at 02:57 on June 27th, 2010
Fake blood?
at 11:23 on June 27th, 2010
When world leaders get together for a Gn summit, thousands of young people draw out their savings and buy plane tickets to go there. Many are people whose parents pay their bills and who work at seasonal or short term jobs or entry level jobs, saving up for travel money, and going from protest to protest around the world. They may stay in hotels, but are more likely to network and stay in the homes of local people who share the same philosophy and network via the internet. Some may simply camp on the street where they protest. Few of the agitators are actually locals though they surely also turn up. The violent ones indubitably include local thugs taking advantage of the opportunity to be wild and violent.
at 11:27 on June 27th, 2010
So glad you showed up for this conversation. In looking at the pictures, it is hard to differentiate the local thugs. Are they the ones without the costumes?
at 13:31 on June 28th, 2010
given how easy it is to put on some black clothes, only the police can sort that out. When everyone, legit protestors included, strikes back at these people as the criminals they are, only then can we stamp out this thuggery.
at 13:53 on June 28th, 2010
They seemed to be fashioned by the same tailor -- like from Project Runway or something. Find the tailor and you can smash anarchy.
at 11:38 on June 27th, 2010
Who controls the black bloc anarchists? by Paul Joseph Watson
http://www.prisonplanet.com/who-controls-the-black-bloc-anarchists.html
at 13:13 on June 27th, 2010
Oh, very interesting. Put us together and we could be another Woodward and Bernstein.
"The British authorities seemed to have little problem with allowing a group of violent black bloc anarchists smash up the RBS building while provoking police yesterday, despite the group announcing their target in advance, yet a legitimate anti-poverty organization has had its “accreditation” to protest at the G20 removed on the orders of Downing Street.
This once again underscores the completely undemocratic power of the government to decide who is allowed to protest against them and who is not. When you have to get permission from the government to exercise a God-given right, as in China or Russia, then we know we are already living in a police state. The freedom to protest is not one that has to be “accredited” by the state, a license to protest as it were, it is an innate human right."