Wadders said:
Fuckin' "anarchists".
What are they even protesting about? What do they hope to achieve by smashing things, damaging property and generally being disorderly?
They deserve whatever police retaliation they get.
They're protesting the security cost of the summit. Ironically, if the government didn't spend so much on security there wouldn't have been any riots/protests.
Some are claiming, and even claimed weeks before the summit, the police were sure to use provocateurs at the summit to justify the enormous costs. Situated at around 1 billion dollars there are several stinky things the Harper administration has pulled off for this conference. To put it in perspective, the G20 summit in England cost 30 million for security.
The downtown CORE of the city has erected 25 foot chain-link fences and has riot police and other law enforcement officers called in from all over the country. These fences were up long before the summit took place. The city also installed 74 additional cameras, long before the summit took place (all to be removed after). If you walk down there, you feel like a cow. The sidewalks are literally these two fences on each sides and it's been hell on the city and businesses who were forced to shut down in a several block radius around the summit building. Hell, you could get arrested just for
walking near the damn place.
Furthermore, the city of Toronto pleaded the government to hold the summit AWAY from the downtown core, and instead host it at a more remote but equally luxurious location. The government, for no specified reason, declined and insisted it be in the downtown core. Why? We are mad because one billion dollars of our own money has been wasted during a fucking recession to put the city in total police state lockdown for a conference that accomplishes absolutely
nothing except giving the world some false illusion that these 20 countries actually work together.
Maybe next time they should just do a conference call.
