I’m not one for conspiracy theories. The only Agent Provocateur’s I’m interested in hearing about has to do with the lingerie.
Fact of the matter is most of the people causing the damages were people just looking to break stuff, most from out of town. Add to that the huge amount of “protestors” who don’t want violence, but do want confrontation and you’ve got a lot of nonsense.
I have to commend the police given the situation. They handled everything very well and overall the results were good.
Still, this thing should seriously be on an army base or aircraft carrier someplace.
R
PS. I swear I already replied to this topic…dunno where that post went…
The concert idea would totally work. Where I live, angry youths used to gather around in the tightly enclosed downtown area, protesting modernism, and fighting with police.
The city wised up and started giving them what they crave, but in managed doses & corporate sponsered filters designed for maximum mood sedation by framing the experience with post modern architecture.
PS. I swear I already replied to this topic…dunno where that post went…
It pro’ly got flung off at apsis on it’s orbit of Saturn before it could return to C77 to be posted… it happened to me last week. And it is more troubling to me than what is being protested in Toronto. The protesters themselves are hooligans and vandals, and deserve to be dealt with as such, pure and simple.
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fully indoctrinated, masses of youth turn patriotic in the name of the post modern ideal.
Ah yes, the old ‘Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt’ and ‘masses-of-youth-turn-patriotic’ schtick…
BTW: The meeting was originally planned for Huntsville, a small city about 3 hours north of Toronto. It was originally only a G8 meeting, which could be accomodated in Huntsville. The federal government spent around $50 million to improve infrastructure and make Huntsville look a little more like a shining star of the industrialized world (new hockey arena, gym, track, new buildings for the U of Waterloo, a giant fence).
BTW, the fed minister from Huntsville is Tony Clement. He won in 2006 by a margin of 28 votes. I don’t believe in conspiracy.
That is what I’m thinking, they are already blowing up stuff there anyway, it would cost way less to create a temporary bunker community for the g20… and after the conference, you could have the protestors blow it up for fun the way fox blew up that casino in Vegas on New Years Eve 10 years ago.
Another naive question. What’s the significance of torching the stick man- Is it a gift to the gods, a celebration of some eclipse, or just the grand finale to a big party? Just wondering, obviously never been there.
I always thought hippie pot-smokers went to Burning Man. Hauling a bunch of wood out to the desert and torching seems like a real harm to the environment.