A conspiracy involving municipal, provincial, and federal governments and their respective departments saw the secret passage of laws restricting your freedoms and granting unprecedented powers to police and military personnel to interact, arrest, and detain you without charge or right to a lawyer. And it wasn't the first time in 2010 that this has happened in Canada. During the Olympic Winter Games held in mid February in Vancouver and area, curiously also costing approximately a billion dollars for security alone, black-clad storm troopers enjoyed similar latitude. Some refer to the Olympic security Goliath as the proving grounds for the G8/G20 Summits.
In addition to the fascist and unchecked powers the cops were secretly granted, they employed tactics the most ruthless dictators of history freely used, including the use of agents provocateurs, to lead, incite, and participate in acts of violence, sabotage, vandalism, crime, and general riotous behavior. All of this was designed to undermine the legitimate and legal peaceful protesters exercising their rights under properly enacted laws. Perhaps these tactics were the means necessary so the governments and organizations involved could point the finger at unruly mobs of criminals to justify the end costs of "security,' which, by the way, we still await to be made public.
This was in passive Canada. It would take volumes upon volumes to cite similar abuses in the United States in the past several years alone.
The above two recent examples were used by your governments to desensitize you to losing your freedoms without consequence. Depending on your politics, you might be able to dismiss your government's abuse as some sort of imperative. Regardless, what about next time? There will indeed be a next time. Where will you draw the line now that the envelope has already been pushed this far?
And that's my take.
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