Email Report of G20 Police Breaking Into Homes

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:11 PM, XXXXX XXXXXX wrote:

The cops were on a mission. All neanderthal aggression. Nice on the video clip. We caught the tail end of people running away but didn't see how it started as we were watching from another side of the roof.
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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:46 PM, XXXXX XXXXXX wrote:
Twas a picture I saw online. The video of the police charging after the peaceful crowd sang O'Canada is insane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heb9BXjYcII

Stay safe!

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:41 PM, XXXXXXX XXXXXXX wrote:
Hey!! We were safe on the roof until a small squadron of cops came up and made us all lie down. We won them over in the end. The cops actually broke in through our neighbours place, by picking their locs, to make it up to the roof. (The neighbours were up on the roof with us.) Crazy times...

Using Public Works to Limit Public Rights

What is the the Public Works Act?

The intent of the Public Works Protection Act is to protect critical public works like power plants and water reservoirs, where someone can do real damage to public safety and the community. However in this instance, private property - the Metro Convention Centre & Deerhurst Inn - is being declared a public work and the law is being used not to protect a public work but to control political participation.

Why was this new law needed?

The Criminal Code already covers acts of violence and destruction of property. Under this new law, police can arrest anyone not providing requested identification or who decline to be searched, even if that person has not committed a crime and is not a threat to public safety. The police have not issued a public statement detailing the need to detain people who are not breaking the law.

How was this new law passed?

At the request of Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and without any public debate whatsoever, the government quietly passed a law classifying the private Metro Convention Centre and Deerhurst Inn as public works for the purposes of increasing police powers while decreasing civil liberties. This new law will not be officially published until 1 week after it has actually expired so the public was unaware of its existence until police started using it to arrest people.

How is this new law being applied?

If the reasoning behind the new law was to help the police manage large outbreaks of violent protest, no one yet arrested under this new law was protesting violently nor were they breaking the law and the police haven't yet declared to the public how they intend to apply arbitrary detention. As a result it appears to the public that the police arrest people simply because they can.

Why wasn't the public told?

With the largest summit security budget of all time, police public relation officers did not inform protest organizers about the new law, knowing full well that these groups were distributing 'citizen's rights' communications which were incorrect with regards to the new law. Many unnecessary confrontations with the police, where the public thinks incorrectly that their rights are protected, would have been mitigated if police outreach simply provided the correct information much earlier. However by surprising everyone right when the summit starts, the public is unable appeal this police-initiated government decision.

How can the police be trusted to protect the public's rights when they are conspiring in secret with the government to take them away?

They can't. Perhaps it's time to consider electing our police chiefs.

* Reference link:
Public Works Protection Act
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90p55_e.htm

The Bellyflop of MP Del Mastro

*sung to WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD by Gordon Lightfoot *

The legend lives on from the G20 on down
Of the fake lake they call Reflective Pool
The fake lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When access to Huntsville turns gloomy.

With a load of H-2-0 - 57,000 dollars more
Than the fake lake will cost when it's empty
Those flying canoes, they were bones to be chewed
When the gales of G20 came early

The PM was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some big speech in Europe
As big budgets go, it was bigger than most
Whatever experts say, we'll believe'em.

Concluding some terms with a couple of security firms
When we found out they don't have a licence
And later that night with our televisions on
Could it be sinking polls we've been feeling?

The piped-in bird song made a tattletale sound
As a reporter falls over the railing
And every man knew, as the PM did, too,
T'was the witch of the fringe groups come stealing.

The dawn came late and protesters had to wait
Then the LRADs of police came a blaring
When the tasers came out, they were feeling some pain
In the face of 10,000 policemen

When supper time came the old cook came on deck
Saying I got some Muskoka chow here to feed ya
At 7PM the big jumbotron caved in
But we watched the World Cup round the corner.

The PM wired in he had water coming in
And the fake lake and media were in peril
Then later that night, with an election out of sight
Came the belly flop of MP Del Mastro.