What If They Held a Summit Meeting

and No-one Protested?

by C. L. Cook

A note on the unfolding of Canadian democracy via the streets of the country's biggest berg, Toronto. The CTV and CBC newscasters were today reporting live, (and with interspersed tape) of various police actions occurring at and around the G 20 meetings.

 

The police were always characterized as "reacting" to the frightening 40 odd Black Bloc* members.

 

At one point, CTV's Sandy Rinaldo asked her man on the street reporter Scott Laurie if the police had anything to fear from the "anarchists." There are thousands of heavily armed police, equipped with the infamous L-Rad audio guns that caused the Vancouver Police Department so much embarrassment during the run-up to the recent reign of anti-terror at the Olympics, steel ball and rubber coated projectiles, gases, batons, plastic straps, pistols, rifles, machine guns, armoured personnel carriers, stun grenades, and a variety of computer and communications infrastructure.

 

Which brings us back to the question: What would happen if the "protesters" instead of arriving on cue to justify the temporary suspension of the nation's Charter of Rights and Freedoms just held their own private meetings? Wouldn't it be a riot to see the Darth's facing off across a million dollar fence with black clad imposters? 

 

For coverage other than Peter's and Sandy's, you can check out the Toronto Media Coop here.