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Originally Posted by astarothel
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http://www.youtube.com/user/templeof.../0/oq8rkP1O5dA
check out all those provocateurs. oh wait...
Perhaps all those people were simply misinformed as to what a security perimeter and fence is actually for?
Take another look at the grise films while you're at it. The officers there show some incredible restraint in some cases. The guy that goes right up to the line and feels out their riot shields?
Since you were there you'd have seen plenty of aggressors that were most definitely not police agitators. Those people cost you your democratic rights as much as any law enforcement officer present did.
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The fence itself was police provocation, but lets leave that aside for the moment.
I never said anyone breaking stuff is an undercover cop. But once you accept this excuse from the cops that they can start busting heads, arresting anyone because of a few who are breaking stuff, then you leave the door wide open to abuse from police and planting of provocateurs. I saw this pattern repeated over and over and over again.
There is no reason as to why a few people breaking stuff should cost us our democratic rights, they can just arrest those few people.
Heres one example:
At the Montreal Jazz festival, 5 people smash up a store window. The cops let them do as they please, and 30mins after theyve left, they round up people attending the event and arrest them en-masse, charge them with horses, put them in cattle pens after removing their shoes on a cold hard floor, cram them in cells for hours and release them without charge. Whats wrong with that picture? We would never accept that for any other event, why isnt the same logic applied to political gatherings than the one applied to commercial gatherings? If you think about it a bit, well theres not many answers to that question.