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Originally Posted by Extunarian
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So it's okay to vandalize property, start things on fire, and put the safety of peaceful protesters at risk because there were only a few hundred of them and they were outnumbered by police?
I'm not as worried about your vast one-world-totalitarian-nazi-government conspiracy as I am about this type of thinking:
"A group of anarchists broke away from the main, non-violent protest by trade unions and other groups around the summit conference centre and began smashing the windows of banks and chain stores and torching police patrol cars in the shopping and financial districts...Footage from the Canadian broadcaster CTV also showed them looting, and threatening photographers."
"This isn't violence," one masked protester told the Toronto Star newspaper. "This is vandalism against violent corporations. We did not hurt anybody. The corporations are the ones hurting people."
Now that is some rationalization right there.
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Its not a conspiracy, its what you can deduct from attending just one of those world-class protests. If youre not just trying to "win" here, and youre truly interested in finding out what goes on, just go to one. All it takes is one direct observation on how cops behave during these protests.
Heres one quote i found about how police are justifying all this repression:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1621198/
“Unfortunately, their criminal activity was made a lot easier by the complicity of the crowd,” he told CP24. “And so we had to contain and control the crowd in an effort to control those criminals.”
This is the exact same logic that US soldiers have been fed in Iraq, that anyone around someone firing on US troops is a fair target because they are "letting" them shoot on US soldiers.
So now every protester needs to be "controlled" (beaten up, penned, arrested and released without charges, intimidated) because they are "complicit" in the criminal activity.
Im not going to cry over a starbucks windows getting smashed, but i think its counter-productive to what these protesters who are using black block tactic are probably trying to accomplish. When they arent undercover cops accomplishing just what they set out for.
That being said, using this as an excuse for all the fascistic behavior you can be witness to if you go to one of these protests, is whats really criminal.