G20 Toronto

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.

fully indoctrinated, masses of youth turn patriotic in the name of the post modern ideal.

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.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/huntsville-revelling-in-50-million-worth-of-g8-summit-largesse/article1595633/

agent provocateurs are not theories, since the Canadian police in Quebec admitted it.

just have the g20 outside of burning man every year in the desert… done.

Great idea. Reverse psychology - instead of avoiding the crazies, go to where they are anyhow.

R

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.

Maybe have the meetings in a blimp flying above the chaos for security.

R

They could have it on a cruise ship way out at sea with a couple Navy ships protecting them.

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.

not just a bunch of hippies, I have friends that go every year. It is a bit of everything.

Yeah! That’s the best idea yet! It would be so cheap compared to the massive security involved now.

But of course, half of the point of these meetings it face time with the public in public places (even though you can’t see or go near any of them…)

As previously mention, an aircraft carrier solves all your problems.

R

Yo: I forgot the term today is hipster;)

no that’s something altogether different.

R

Why is it that such places are chosen for such meetings anyway?
You are trying to find an obvious solution to something that might be done on purpose.

And apparently the whole of IDEO, as mentioned in “Art of innovation”. The crowd ranges from hippie pot-smokers to Silicon Valley billionaires.