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2010-06-28 Great White North

The Other Side of the G20 Conference - Salt Accordingly

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Put those conferences on godforsaken privately owned remote islands, admission by invitation only. This looks like a game of cops beating rioters and rioters beating cops.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-28 00:16|| 2010-06-28 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The article linked is a hoot:

Personally, I have never seen anything like this and am appalled at the terrifying political and rhetorical shift that has occurred in Canada's treatment of its community organizers in the last few days.

Canadians now see what future community organizers are capable of.

Obama shoulda stayed a community organizer.

Posted by badanov 2010-06-28 00:32|| 2010-06-28 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 ION CHINESE MIL FORUM > THE UNITED STATES OF BANKRUPTED STATES | [Bloomberg]STATES OF CRISIS FOR 46 US STATE GOVTS FACING GREEK/GREEK-STYLE DEFICITS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-28 00:49|| 2010-06-28 00:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Istn't there a typo? Should't be communistic organizers?

Posted by twobyfour 2010-06-28 00:53|| 2010-06-28 00:53|| Front Page Top

#5 What complete and utter drivel. Damn funny tho'. No idea which demo the author attended because so few of the accusations are remotely real, but it wasn't Toronto. torontonians are left with the distinct impression that the "demonstrators" expected beer tents, music and hot dogs. To be allowed to do whatever they wanted, wherever they wanted and howsoever they wanted.

"On Saturday, there was no sign of protester violence, among the 25, 000 plus people who took to the streets, contrary to what many corporate media reports are conveying. Referring to the film footage of rioters in action, I take it. A few banks, franchises and corporations had their windows smashed in symbolic shows of property damage. On the contrary, levels of police violence have been extreme and brutal"

There were about 4,000 protestors at the height of their march. Notice that window smashing, vandalism and looting are dismissed as "symbolism" not violence by dear young author. Police were very restrained. The youts biggest complaints when detained were: they had to keep asking for toilet paper, it was cold (police issued sweatshirts and sweat pants to those complaining of cold until they ran out), they only got sandwiches to eat and not a hot meal, there were no beds provided and they couldn't lie down... on and on in this vein.

Police were cherry-picking Black ops from the crowds. These guys changed in and out of their "anarchist" blacks and were tracked by police and arrested with backpacks full of fun stuff to throw.

The rest of the article is full of the same flights of fancy and errors. Exaggerations abound. 25,000 people LMFAO. Didn't quite reach 4,000 even at its height. Same grain o salt for every other word in the article.

Posted by Swanimote 2010-06-28 10:51|| 2010-06-28 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 A funny bit elsewhere was of a protester who was detained for 19 hours, and complained of being fed only "butter and cheese sandwiches".

Somebody immediately commented that force feeding people butter and cheese sandwiches for 19 hours clearly constitutes torture. You figure, 3 or 4 sandwiches an hour is somewhere between 57 and 76 sandwiches. Those monsters!

Not only do you leave looking like Jabba the Hut, but you are constipated for a month.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-28 16:27|| 2010-06-28 16:27|| Front Page Top

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