Massive G20 Protests in Toronto Turn Violent
G20 Summit Protests Turns Violent
We finally got out of work at noon on Friday in preparation for the potential of violent G20 protests, one of my friends left saying “too little, too late” as he left for his massage appointment at 12:20 p.m. There was a peaceful protest yesterday. Today a larger massive G20 Protest began. The Toronto G20 Summit protest turns violent. Hee-haw.
Pregnant mothers, mothers with stroller were among the participants of the G20 protests in Toronto. I can’t understand that. Considering that research has not yet been done on the effects of tear gas on fetuses, the last place I think an expectant mother would want to go was a G20 protest which might turn violent. I certainly wouldn’t take my babies in strollers to a protest either.
So Saturday’s massive protest has turned violent as expected. There have been anarchists smashing Scotia Bank’s building’s windows, windows at Yonge and Dundas, Yonge and College streets, fires have been set and people are getting wild. The TTC subway line has been halted. The Sheraton Hotel, the Eaton Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sick Kids Hospital, all have been shut down. Shopper’s Drug Mart windows have been smashed. Two cars have been set on fire. I’m watching some stupid idiots trying to drive their SUVs and other gas guzzlers through the protesters at Yonge and College. Police finally put on their gas masks to let out some tear gas. This turn of events was to be expected, especially considering the build up of police and security in Toronto over the last week. This is, after all, a G20 Summit Protest. Anarchy will reign. Yes, the downtown protest has finally turned violent.
However, I’m not really sure that the protesters are actually protesting the issues being discussed at the G20 Summit table. I get the feeling it’s just a battle against the police and smashing windows for the hell of it. That’s what’s bothering me. Just wait till the liquor and beer starts flowing, it is after all, Saturday night. Hooliganism for the hell of it. Toronto, finally, comes of age.
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These people who instigated all of this violence in Toronto today, should be rounded up and not only incarcerated for their crimes, but be made to clean up and pay for the mess that they have left. But, I’m sure that all the civil liberties groups out there won’t think of the victims rights, but those of the criminals.
I’m glad that I wasn’t there today, because being an old army vet, I would be sure to have tracked one of these idiot’s down and zapped strapped them myself. Not to worry about me, after 3 yrs with 1st Canadian Airborne 3 commando, I would be able to have taken care of a few.
It’s Monday, it’s over. I agree with you. The “protest” was totally stupid. Who knows what they were protesting. Nothing. Just violence for the sake of it. We hardly heard what was being discussed by the G20.
I hear that Canada’s finest were unfairly targeting – even singling out – young men dressed in black carrying gas masks obtained at army surplus stores or wearing kerchiefs over their faces. What’s more, apparently picking up a rock or a brick on a downtown street in Hogtown earns you a whack over the head with a police baton. Attempting to torch a police cruiser is now cause for detention?
Such flagrant discrimination! How can the police be allowed to run amok like this? Has Canada lost its bearings? What happened to the peaceable kingdom, where everyone is free from discrimination? I for one will not dare to wear black while in TO. I’m leaving my black Converse running shoes, my black Levi’s, my black Calvin Klein boxers at home. By the way, where do Anarchists get the money for such cool clothes?