They'll do it too. No official will ever be held accountable for the fuck up that was the G20.
The head of the Toronto Police Association says he intends to challenge any attempt to lay disciplinary charges against five officers involved in the 2010 arrest of G20 protester Adam Nobody.
Best bullshit:
Mike McCormack said Friday that the investigation took too long.
"The association takes the position on a point of principle," he said. "These things should be concluded within a reasonable timeframe, like any other investigation."
Read more here.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Tony Clement got a lot of 'splainin' to do
How Harper got a majority is one of the mysteries of the modern age.
The federal minister responsible for cutting government waste is being called before a parliamentary committee Wednesday to explain how his own Ontario riding became paved in $45 million of political pork.
Treasury Board head Tony Clement certainly has a lot to answer for.
The $45.7-million spending spree was supposed to provide essential facilities to host last year's G8 summit of world leaders in Clement's riding in Muskoka cottage country north of Toronto.
Instead, almost all of the money was scattered across Clement's electoral domain for local pet projects that had little or nothing at all to do with the summit — everything from a $17-million community centre expansion to a $100,000 gazebo in the middle of an empty lot an hour's drive from the meeting site.
And now, the bleeding obvious:
So far, Stephen Harper's government has successfully stonewalled all attempts by the opposition parties to get to the bottom of the great Muskoka pork barrel.
Read more here.
The federal minister responsible for cutting government waste is being called before a parliamentary committee Wednesday to explain how his own Ontario riding became paved in $45 million of political pork.
Treasury Board head Tony Clement certainly has a lot to answer for.
The $45.7-million spending spree was supposed to provide essential facilities to host last year's G8 summit of world leaders in Clement's riding in Muskoka cottage country north of Toronto.
Instead, almost all of the money was scattered across Clement's electoral domain for local pet projects that had little or nothing at all to do with the summit — everything from a $17-million community centre expansion to a $100,000 gazebo in the middle of an empty lot an hour's drive from the meeting site.
And now, the bleeding obvious:
So far, Stephen Harper's government has successfully stonewalled all attempts by the opposition parties to get to the bottom of the great Muskoka pork barrel.
Read more here.
Sunday, October 09, 2011
In Harper's Canada, "company officials" from Contemporary Security Canada are free from prosecution
The private security company awarded a controversial $21-million contract to do checkpoint screening inside the security perimeters at last year's G8 and G20 summits in Ontario has pleaded guilty to doing business without a licence ahead of the event...
...The Ontario Provincial Police laid a string of charges in March against CSC, including three counts of offering security services while not licensed, two counts of failing to ensure proper uniforms and one charge of hiring an unlicensed guard for the G20 and G8 summits. Many of its top executives were also charged.
The Crown dropped most of those charges — including the more than 20 against company officials — on Friday, telling the court that it was the RCMP that solicited CSC's business and granted the contract without considering bids from other, licensed Ontario security firms.
I'm sure there are lots of little people who can pay for the wrong doing of their, um, betters.
Isn't that the natural way of things? Uncharged "company officials" won't spill the beans.
Read more here.
...The Ontario Provincial Police laid a string of charges in March against CSC, including three counts of offering security services while not licensed, two counts of failing to ensure proper uniforms and one charge of hiring an unlicensed guard for the G20 and G8 summits. Many of its top executives were also charged.
The Crown dropped most of those charges — including the more than 20 against company officials — on Friday, telling the court that it was the RCMP that solicited CSC's business and granted the contract without considering bids from other, licensed Ontario security firms.
I'm sure there are lots of little people who can pay for the wrong doing of their, um, betters.
Isn't that the natural way of things? Uncharged "company officials" won't spill the beans.
Read more here.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Officialdom continues to cover up G20 wrongdoing
Two undercover police officers who infiltrated the group of 17 men and women charged with conspiring to cause mayhem at the G20 summit in Toronto last summer were subsequently identified, vilified and threatened to the point that both are now seriously at risk, a court filing states.
The information is in an affidavit that is part of an unusual and strenuous prosecution effort to keep the names and descriptions of the two officers confidential, even though their names, their involvement in the case and personal details about their lives – including vacation photos – have been posted on the Internet, along with derogatory comments.
Read more here.
The information is in an affidavit that is part of an unusual and strenuous prosecution effort to keep the names and descriptions of the two officers confidential, even though their names, their involvement in the case and personal details about their lives – including vacation photos – have been posted on the Internet, along with derogatory comments.
Read more here.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Toronto judge states the obvious
A Toronto judge has blasted police tactics during last year's G20 summit.
Lawyers defending some of the people charged with offences in connection with last year's summit say a Toronto judge's ruling this week is going to have "an enormous impact" on their cases.
Read more here.
Lawyers defending some of the people charged with offences in connection with last year's summit say a Toronto judge's ruling this week is going to have "an enormous impact" on their cases.
Read more here.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
RCMP G20 report highlights moron Canadians just elected as PM
An internal RCMP review says the Conservative government's choice of Ontario cottage country as the 2010 G8 Summit venue offered would-be snipers "ideal conditions" to assassinate a world leader.
It says the hilly, wooded terrain around Huntsville, Ont., featured not only excellent vantage points for gunmen, but covered approaches for intruders, and problematic land and water routes leading in and out of the area.
The 353-page review was released to The Canadian Press in response to an Access to Information request.
Harper supports are out in full flower of course:
thedgman
But there's the gun registry! and gun control! We are supposed to safe because no one can get guns!
Good thing nothing happened. And to all left-wingers: Criminals don't register their guns nor buy their guns legally. State-sanctioned gun control doesn't work.
Sigh
Read more here.
It says the hilly, wooded terrain around Huntsville, Ont., featured not only excellent vantage points for gunmen, but covered approaches for intruders, and problematic land and water routes leading in and out of the area.
The 353-page review was released to The Canadian Press in response to an Access to Information request.
Harper supports are out in full flower of course:
thedgman
But there's the gun registry! and gun control! We are supposed to safe because no one can get guns!
Good thing nothing happened. And to all left-wingers: Criminals don't register their guns nor buy their guns legally. State-sanctioned gun control doesn't work.
Sigh
Read more here.
Monday, June 27, 2011
To The Globe and Mail: The G20 wasn't a war you flaming idiots
Marcus 'How the Fuck do I call myself a journalist with a straight face' Gee is at it again:
At the G20, Toronto was lost in the fog of war
I can almost predict whenever the G and M prints some backwards thinking conservative dribble, it will have originated from the feverous mind of Mr. Gee. What a total dope.
Generals call it the fog of war. In intense military conflicts, disorder and bewilderment often reign. Commanders lose touch with their troops. Orders go astray. The shape of the battle suddenly changes, making mincemeat of the best laid plans.
So it was on June 26 and 27, 2010, when police confronted radical protesters on the streets of Toronto. “The G20 summit was an event unprecedented in Toronto in terms of the size and scope of its security demands and policing requirements,” says a report ordered by Police Chief Bill Blair. “It was also the first time that many TPS officers had experienced widespread criminality and mass public disorder.”
That last sentence is worded badly, let me fix it for you..
“It was also the first time that many TPS officers had evoked widespread criminality and mass public disorder.”
There, now it reflects the truth.
Read more here.
At the G20, Toronto was lost in the fog of war
I can almost predict whenever the G and M prints some backwards thinking conservative dribble, it will have originated from the feverous mind of Mr. Gee. What a total dope.
Generals call it the fog of war. In intense military conflicts, disorder and bewilderment often reign. Commanders lose touch with their troops. Orders go astray. The shape of the battle suddenly changes, making mincemeat of the best laid plans.
So it was on June 26 and 27, 2010, when police confronted radical protesters on the streets of Toronto. “The G20 summit was an event unprecedented in Toronto in terms of the size and scope of its security demands and policing requirements,” says a report ordered by Police Chief Bill Blair. “It was also the first time that many TPS officers had experienced widespread criminality and mass public disorder.”
That last sentence is worded badly, let me fix it for you..
“It was also the first time that many TPS officers had evoked widespread criminality and mass public disorder.”
There, now it reflects the truth.
Read more here.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
O Canada
When do our leaders become so corrupt that the contract between them and the citizens is broken?
The contempt the police are showing for this man is obvious, do they then deserve respect?
World, this is the place Stephen Harper is making of Canada.
The lawyer for a man suing the Toronto Police Service says his client was "terrified" when he was arrested, strip-searched and led naked past a female officer a few days prior to last year's G20 Summit.
In an interview on CBC News Network on Friday, lawyer Murray Klippenstein said his client, Sean Salvati, 33, was held without access to a lawyer for 11 hours before being released.
A police security video, posted by the Toronto Star after it was obtained by Salvati's lawyer through freedom of information requests, shows a completely naked Salvati being led by three male officers out of an interrogation room and past a female officer
Read more here.
Friday, June 24, 2011
G20/G8 police played at rats and moles
Our current leaders really despise opposition, do they not?
A bit late although, some of Canadian voters decided Stephen Possible War Criminal Harper was just AOK as PM.
Newly released G8/G20 summit documents reveal the RCMP and various Ontario police forces spent several months infiltrating anti-war, anti-globalization and anarchist groups with the use of undercover officers ahead of last June's summits in Huntsville and Toronto.
The reports by the Joint Intelligence Group formed by the RCMP-led ISU (Integrated Security Unit) show that various police services contributed at least 12 undercover officers to take part in covert surveillance of potential "criminal extremists" in a bid to "detect … and disrupt" any threats.
Read more here.
A bit late although, some of Canadian voters decided Stephen Possible War Criminal Harper was just AOK as PM.
Newly released G8/G20 summit documents reveal the RCMP and various Ontario police forces spent several months infiltrating anti-war, anti-globalization and anarchist groups with the use of undercover officers ahead of last June's summits in Huntsville and Toronto.
The reports by the Joint Intelligence Group formed by the RCMP-led ISU (Integrated Security Unit) show that various police services contributed at least 12 undercover officers to take part in covert surveillance of potential "criminal extremists" in a bid to "detect … and disrupt" any threats.
Read more here.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Police at G20 were fine, except for Interpretation of law, Communication, Organization, and the arrest of hundreds
Other than that all was peachy.
One billion dollars just doesn't get good help these days. It did buy peace of mind for conservatives content in the knowledge they got to beat up on their fellow citizens.
Toronto police were overwhelmed and underprepared at times for protests that occurred during last year's G20 summit, according to an internal report.
The report reviews the actions of Toronto police during the June 26-27, 2010, summit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto and the preparations leading up to it.
Read more here.
One billion dollars just doesn't get good help these days. It did buy peace of mind for conservatives content in the knowledge they got to beat up on their fellow citizens.
Toronto police were overwhelmed and underprepared at times for protests that occurred during last year's G20 summit, according to an internal report.
The report reviews the actions of Toronto police during the June 26-27, 2010, summit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto and the preparations leading up to it.
Read more here.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Another scapegoat is offered up in the person of Genn Weddell when Harper and Co. are the real criminals
Should police be charged if they overstep the authority?
Absolutely
Should police be charged if their authority was extended by dubious and secret mandates from above?
Well, um
Shouldn't we be investing the people who actually authorized this clear breaking of Canadian law?
But but, we have an officer under arrest? Isn't that complete justice?
A Toronto police officer has been charged in connection to injuries sustained by Dorian Barton, who claimed his arm was broken when he was assaulted by police during last June's G20 demonstrations.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, which reopened the case last month, said there was sufficient information gathered from numerous interviews to lay charges almost a year after the incident at Queen's Park in Toronto.
Toronto Police Const. Glenn Weddell was charged Friday with assault causing bodily harm.
Read more here.
Absolutely
Should police be charged if their authority was extended by dubious and secret mandates from above?
Well, um
Shouldn't we be investing the people who actually authorized this clear breaking of Canadian law?
But but, we have an officer under arrest? Isn't that complete justice?
A Toronto police officer has been charged in connection to injuries sustained by Dorian Barton, who claimed his arm was broken when he was assaulted by police during last June's G20 demonstrations.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, which reopened the case last month, said there was sufficient information gathered from numerous interviews to lay charges almost a year after the incident at Queen's Park in Toronto.
Toronto Police Const. Glenn Weddell was charged Friday with assault causing bodily harm.
Read more here.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Police Const. Glenn Weddell, what's gonna shield ya now?
I pity any member of the SIU pulled over for a speeding ticket in this city.
Police Const. Glenn Weddell has been identified as the officer who allegedly slammed Dorian Barton with a riot shield and hit him with a baton during the G20, the Toronto Star has learned.
Weddell is the subject officer at the centre of a Special Investigations Unit probe, which in turn is at the heart of a public bickering match between Toronto police and the civilian agency charged with overseeing them.
Investigators have asked 11 witness officers to identify the colleague accused of beating Barton during last June’s G20 summit. Eight of them were within the immediate vicinity of Barton’s violent takedown; one of them was also the officer’s roommate during the summit, according to the SIU.
None of the officers were able to offer a positive identification, leading many critics to suggest a “blue wall of silence” was at play.
Ya think?
Read more here.
Police Const. Glenn Weddell has been identified as the officer who allegedly slammed Dorian Barton with a riot shield and hit him with a baton during the G20, the Toronto Star has learned.
Weddell is the subject officer at the centre of a Special Investigations Unit probe, which in turn is at the heart of a public bickering match between Toronto police and the civilian agency charged with overseeing them.
Investigators have asked 11 witness officers to identify the colleague accused of beating Barton during last June’s G20 summit. Eight of them were within the immediate vicinity of Barton’s violent takedown; one of them was also the officer’s roommate during the summit, according to the SIU.
None of the officers were able to offer a positive identification, leading many critics to suggest a “blue wall of silence” was at play.
Ya think?
Read more here.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
The auditor general to release G20 cost report, pleased in the knowledge nobody will do f*ck all about it
Thanks for waiting until after the election. Wouldn't want Canadians making informed decisions, now would we?
If current conservative thinking is anything to go by, Harper's supporters wouldn't care if it cost 20 billion, as long as one left leaning citizen is outraged, then it is worth it (sorry world, but it's true, Harper and Co, have succeeded in turning Canadian politics into a "us vs. them" mentality. Read comments from Ford/Harper supporters on any major Canadian media outlet to get the tone of their thinking. Or just hire Don Cherry to insult the Pinkos...).
The auditor general's office finally releases a final report Thursday on the costs of the controversial G8 and G20 summits hosted by Canada last summer.
Acting auditor general John Wiersema will table the office's spring 2011 report in the House of Commons at 10 a.m. ET. It includes two highly anticipated chapters on last June's meetings in Huntsville, Ont., and Toronto, including a look at millions spent on projects in Conservative cabinet minister Tony Clement's Parry Sound-Muskoka riding.
The third chapter focuses on how the Department of National Defence developed a pension plan for its reserve force.
Harper won't care how much it cost in the end. Very dime was worth it in his mind, covering Toronto with military style police helped cover his embarrassment on how bland Toronto really is.
That, and the Wall to keep those nasty peasants at bay....
Read more here.
If current conservative thinking is anything to go by, Harper's supporters wouldn't care if it cost 20 billion, as long as one left leaning citizen is outraged, then it is worth it (sorry world, but it's true, Harper and Co, have succeeded in turning Canadian politics into a "us vs. them" mentality. Read comments from Ford/Harper supporters on any major Canadian media outlet to get the tone of their thinking. Or just hire Don Cherry to insult the Pinkos...).
The auditor general's office finally releases a final report Thursday on the costs of the controversial G8 and G20 summits hosted by Canada last summer.
Acting auditor general John Wiersema will table the office's spring 2011 report in the House of Commons at 10 a.m. ET. It includes two highly anticipated chapters on last June's meetings in Huntsville, Ont., and Toronto, including a look at millions spent on projects in Conservative cabinet minister Tony Clement's Parry Sound-Muskoka riding.
The third chapter focuses on how the Department of National Defence developed a pension plan for its reserve force.
Harper won't care how much it cost in the end. Very dime was worth it in his mind, covering Toronto with military style police helped cover his embarrassment on how bland Toronto really is.
That, and the Wall to keep those nasty peasants at bay....
Read more here.
Monday, June 06, 2011
G20 Police: Name tags? We don't need no stinkin' name tags
Police have been removing name tags for decades in certain situations, it's what they do.
Seems to me that is sends a clear message to all us underlings: We the police are above the law, when it suits us. What'ca gonna do about it?
A student activist says Toronto police officers are continuing to violate their own policy by refusing to wear name tags while on duty.
The issue was raised last week as the public review continues into police actions during last year's G20 summit.
Many officers did not wear name tags on their uniform during the summit, which in some instances made it difficult to identify them in photos and footage during subsequent reviews into police actions.
Best bullshit in the story, hands down:
Mark Pugash speaks for the Toronto Police. He said all uniformed officers are required to wear name tags while on duty but said older raincoats are an exception.
He said the older raincoats are being replaced by new coats that have a patch for name tags, but could not give a timeline about when all of the older style of coats would be replaced.
"We have to be fiscally responsible, as we replace our coats, they'll be replaced with coats that allow the wearing of name badges," he told CBC News.
HAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oh my aching sides!
He's not as dumb as he sounds actually, this is Ford's Toronto, they'll buy anything.
Read more here.
Seems to me that is sends a clear message to all us underlings: We the police are above the law, when it suits us. What'ca gonna do about it?
A student activist says Toronto police officers are continuing to violate their own policy by refusing to wear name tags while on duty.
The issue was raised last week as the public review continues into police actions during last year's G20 summit.
Many officers did not wear name tags on their uniform during the summit, which in some instances made it difficult to identify them in photos and footage during subsequent reviews into police actions.
Best bullshit in the story, hands down:
Mark Pugash speaks for the Toronto Police. He said all uniformed officers are required to wear name tags while on duty but said older raincoats are an exception.
He said the older raincoats are being replaced by new coats that have a patch for name tags, but could not give a timeline about when all of the older style of coats would be replaced.
"We have to be fiscally responsible, as we replace our coats, they'll be replaced with coats that allow the wearing of name badges," he told CBC News.
HAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oh my aching sides!
He's not as dumb as he sounds actually, this is Ford's Toronto, they'll buy anything.
Read more here.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Canada's parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page: Idiot of the Day
These people have no idea how awful they come across...or do they?
The bill for security at last summer's G8 and G20 summits could have been much lower if the government had used more military personnel instead of police officers, Canada's parliamentary budget officer says.
Kevin Page's comments on Monday came in response to a CBC/Radio-Canada report that revealed the RCMP contracted hundreds of police officers from across the country to travel to Ontario for the two summits, and paid millions in premiums to them for working on days off or during vacations.
They really do have a "us vs. them" mentality.
And it's not just confined to those in *power*, as this commentator shows:
James in Kanata
There's a lot of ways to save money. One way would have been to lock up all the known "peaceful" protesters beforehand. A trip to NDP headquarters would have taken care of that. It just so happens to be illegal.
Using soldiers is fine but the left wing wackos that infest this country have a problem with "soldiers in the streets with guns". So be it. Police on overtime it is.
The Harper Era is bringing out the ugly.
Read more here.
The bill for security at last summer's G8 and G20 summits could have been much lower if the government had used more military personnel instead of police officers, Canada's parliamentary budget officer says.
Kevin Page's comments on Monday came in response to a CBC/Radio-Canada report that revealed the RCMP contracted hundreds of police officers from across the country to travel to Ontario for the two summits, and paid millions in premiums to them for working on days off or during vacations.
They really do have a "us vs. them" mentality.
And it's not just confined to those in *power*, as this commentator shows:
James in Kanata
There's a lot of ways to save money. One way would have been to lock up all the known "peaceful" protesters beforehand. A trip to NDP headquarters would have taken care of that. It just so happens to be illegal.
Using soldiers is fine but the left wing wackos that infest this country have a problem with "soldiers in the streets with guns". So be it. Police on overtime it is.
The Harper Era is bringing out the ugly.
Read more here.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Oh so *that's* why the G20 cost 1 billion
We're in the money, the skies are sunny
Police officers from forces outside the Greater Toronto Area brought in to work at last summer's G8 and G20 summits made millions of dollars through lucrative contracts paying them overtime and vacation rates, according to newly released RCMP documents.
CBC/Radio-Canada has obtained copies of RCMP contracts totalling $7 million for the hiring of 657 officers from 17 different local forces from coast to coast. The invoices detail how over the course of a week or two in June 2010, more than half of all the work performed by those officers was paid for at premium rates of 1½ or two times an officer's usual wages.
One of the most costly examples involves Montreal's police force, which submitted an invoice to the RCMP for 278 officers paid at "double time" for all the work they performed around the Toronto and Huntsville summit sites between June 19 and June 29, at a total cost of $3,342,578.
And here I thought the one billion went towards the Harper "I'm so embarrassed of Toronto" Memorial Fake Lake, and paying for Officer Bubble's lawsuits.
Read more here.
Police officers from forces outside the Greater Toronto Area brought in to work at last summer's G8 and G20 summits made millions of dollars through lucrative contracts paying them overtime and vacation rates, according to newly released RCMP documents.
CBC/Radio-Canada has obtained copies of RCMP contracts totalling $7 million for the hiring of 657 officers from 17 different local forces from coast to coast. The invoices detail how over the course of a week or two in June 2010, more than half of all the work performed by those officers was paid for at premium rates of 1½ or two times an officer's usual wages.
One of the most costly examples involves Montreal's police force, which submitted an invoice to the RCMP for 278 officers paid at "double time" for all the work they performed around the Toronto and Huntsville summit sites between June 19 and June 29, at a total cost of $3,342,578.
And here I thought the one billion went towards the Harper "I'm so embarrassed of Toronto" Memorial Fake Lake, and paying for Officer Bubble's lawsuits.
Read more here.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Toronto Police Association makes the move to stand up comedy
The head of the Toronto Police Association says it is "absolutely absurd" to suggest officers conspired to protect colleagues accused of breaking a man's shoulder at a G20 protest.
Haahahahahahah funny!
Ok, I got one. A priest, a rabbi and Officer Bubbles walk into a bar...
Read more here.
Haahahahahahah funny!
Ok, I got one. A priest, a rabbi and Officer Bubbles walk into a bar...
Read more here.
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty passes buck on G20, says to ask Harper..ask Harper hahahahaha
Translation: it was all Harper's fault. I saw him do it. It's him, it's him, it's him....waaaaaaaaaaa
or
Translation: It's up to Harper to call an inquiry...yes I know, Hell will freeze over first...that's the whole idea....
It's up to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call a public inquiry into mass arrests during the G20 weekend in Toronto last June, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Friday.
"I'm not sure if you've ever had this opportunity, and I know it's a difficult thing, but maybe you could put that question to the prime minister," McGuinty told reporters when asked if he would call an inquiry. "It was his G20, it was his G8, it was his funding. We in the province of Ontario had very little choice but to assume the responsibility of a host jurisdiction, and I think that's the kind of question you should put to that particular individual."
Read more here.
or
Translation: It's up to Harper to call an inquiry...yes I know, Hell will freeze over first...that's the whole idea....
It's up to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call a public inquiry into mass arrests during the G20 weekend in Toronto last June, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Friday.
"I'm not sure if you've ever had this opportunity, and I know it's a difficult thing, but maybe you could put that question to the prime minister," McGuinty told reporters when asked if he would call an inquiry. "It was his G20, it was his G8, it was his funding. We in the province of Ontario had very little choice but to assume the responsibility of a host jurisdiction, and I think that's the kind of question you should put to that particular individual."
Read more here.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
G20 law to be repealed by Ontario..until they need it again
You really don't think this is permanent, do you?
The Ontario government says it will repeal a decades-old law that it used to give law enforcement officials controversial new powers around the site of the G20 summit site in downtown Toronto last summer.
The move comes after former chief justice Roy McMurtry released a report Thursday criticizing the Ontario government for its secrecy in applying the Public Works Protection Act — enacted in 1939 to protect infrastructure works from wartime enemies — to the area around the G20 summit, which ran June 26-27.
"The Public Works Protection Act raises issues regarding the liberty and security of the person in providing for warrantless searches and stopping for identification," writes McMurtry in the report. "[The] potential for abuse is beyond troubling, to say the least."
At least, it gave us Officer Bubbles. At worst, it gave free reign to some of the more regrettable tendencies of the Harper regime.
Read more here.
The Ontario government says it will repeal a decades-old law that it used to give law enforcement officials controversial new powers around the site of the G20 summit site in downtown Toronto last summer.
The move comes after former chief justice Roy McMurtry released a report Thursday criticizing the Ontario government for its secrecy in applying the Public Works Protection Act — enacted in 1939 to protect infrastructure works from wartime enemies — to the area around the G20 summit, which ran June 26-27.
"The Public Works Protection Act raises issues regarding the liberty and security of the person in providing for warrantless searches and stopping for identification," writes McMurtry in the report. "[The] potential for abuse is beyond troubling, to say the least."
At least, it gave us Officer Bubbles. At worst, it gave free reign to some of the more regrettable tendencies of the Harper regime.
Read more here.
Friday, April 15, 2011
A British high court deems London G20 'kettling' illegal, thus confirming the f*cking obvious
This won't change a thing, as police are the last to get the "cut out the illegal activities" memo...
The kettling of G20 protesters in London was illegal, a British High Court has ruled in a case with sweeping implications in Toronto.
The decision Thursday by the Queen’s Bench justices said police were working “in good faith” but still overreacted when they corralled 4,500 people inside a Climate Camp in London for three hours on April 1, 2009.
“The police may only take such preventive action as a last resort catering for situations about to descend into violence,” the Queen’s Bench justices.
“The test of necessity is met only in truly extreme and exceptional cases.”
“This is groundbreaking,” lawyer John Halford, representing the claimants Hannah McClure and Josh Moos, told the Toronto Star. “Never has there been a judicial review challenging a mass use of force by a lot of officers at once.”
This was “the blunt instrument being used when a scalpel is available,” he said.
“It is not necessary to make thousands of others suffer because police can’t be bothered to arrest the ones who are responsible.”
To our younger readers: There has been a highly successful campaign by our leaders to demonize any form of protest.
"Filthy hippies..."
Having protests thus discouraged, it's a free for all for those in power.
How convenient...
If you find you're being fucked over by government etc, speak up, protest. If you don't, power will walk over you as if you were an old doormat. They will wipe their boots on you in contempt.
Read more here.
The kettling of G20 protesters in London was illegal, a British High Court has ruled in a case with sweeping implications in Toronto.
The decision Thursday by the Queen’s Bench justices said police were working “in good faith” but still overreacted when they corralled 4,500 people inside a Climate Camp in London for three hours on April 1, 2009.
“The police may only take such preventive action as a last resort catering for situations about to descend into violence,” the Queen’s Bench justices.
“The test of necessity is met only in truly extreme and exceptional cases.”
“This is groundbreaking,” lawyer John Halford, representing the claimants Hannah McClure and Josh Moos, told the Toronto Star. “Never has there been a judicial review challenging a mass use of force by a lot of officers at once.”
This was “the blunt instrument being used when a scalpel is available,” he said.
“It is not necessary to make thousands of others suffer because police can’t be bothered to arrest the ones who are responsible.”
To our younger readers: There has been a highly successful campaign by our leaders to demonize any form of protest.
"Filthy hippies..."
Having protests thus discouraged, it's a free for all for those in power.
How convenient...
If you find you're being fucked over by government etc, speak up, protest. If you don't, power will walk over you as if you were an old doormat. They will wipe their boots on you in contempt.
Read more here.
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