You see... the billion dollars spent was a provocation, look at these people, they are not protesting the international bankster cabal, nor the media, nor the corporations, not even the PUPPETS (front men, patsies) pretending to discuss the "interests of human kind". They have been reduced to protesting the security budget itself, as scripted, when told to, and in their designated zones, the entire initial purpose of the so called protest (which was a DOA as I have thoroughly explained) has been overshadowed by the billion dollar security figure. Not only do they now get people acclimatized to the police state (using those same peoples taxes to pay) they also detract attention away from the primary source of the problem. Its bloody absurd. Fucking hopeless. Keep your eye on the prize!!!
A man wearing a giant replica of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's head led G8 and G20 protesters through Toronto's banking district on Thursday in a peaceful show of opposition to the summits' $1-billion price tag.
At least 30 people, many of them in business attire, paraded near the intersection of King and Bay streets. They handed out fake $1-billion bills in what organizers called a tongue-in-cheek commentary on spending for the summits at a time when foreign aid is facing cuts.
The parade ended at Union Station, Toronto's main train station, where protesters covered in an oil-like substance — actually chocolate — danced.
Police on bicycles monitored the protest, which was organized by At the Table Coalition, an umbrella group of non-profit groups.
The group is calling on Harper "to commit to the Robin Hood Tax, a 0.05 per cent Financial Transaction Tax on speculative trading that could raise billions each year for fighting climate change and poverty both at home and abroad," the group said in a statement.
Near the security fence around the Rogers Centre, workers pulled small trees out of the ground, roots and all. Meanwhile, on Front Street east of Bay, police ordered a host of cars, motorcycles and scooters towed away.
The Integrated Security Unit, which is co-ordinating policing for the G20 and made up of RCMP and other police officers, said the deforestation of the security perimeter was a pre-emptive measure designed to thwart any adventurous protestors who might be tempted to uproot the saplings themselves for use as weapons.
The trees will be hauled away until the summit is over, when they will be replanted.
The mass round-up of motor vehicles, meanwhile, was the result of the start of new parking restrictions in force for the summit.
Taxi stands in the security zone were moved east and, in turn, displaced parking zones in the area.
Police put up signs warning drivers of the change, but several didn't see or didn't heed the warning.
"They should have checked and seen that changes are in effect. People are a creature of habit and they didn't check," said Constable Wendy Drummond, spokesperson for the ISU.
She said cabbies complained, prompting officers to roust the vehicles.
Police did offer some respite to the unpleasantly surprised motorists by waiving fines on any vehicles towed on Tuesday. Anyone who gets ticketed and towed Wednesday, however, will be expected to pay up, Constable Drummond said.
Homeless persons in Toronto will be facing more challenges in the next few weeks because with the raising of the security fence also comes the clearing out the “undesirables” from within. Toronto officials say that homeless persons will need to make ‘alternative arrangements’ during the summits if they normally occupy the area that will be enclosed by the security fence. While Toronto summit support staff said that they have made it clear that there are shelters available and homeless persons will need to leave the area during the summit homeless persons who were interviewed were unaware that this was the case. Any homeless persons who are still inside the perimeter when the summits start will be arrested and jailed. Given all the money being poured out so international media can enjoy a pretend lake, that security teams are paid overtime and well fed and have three and four star hotels to stay at, where’s the shelter and warm meals for members of Canada’s own population?
According to the national post (privately owned post) the Canadian government (special interest zionazis) are planning on spending nearly 1 billion to cover the security and facilitation costs of the upcoming G-Unit meeting.
While protesters plan their pilgrimage to the red zone, and utter empty threats of resistance at this meaningless affair, the authorities are capitalizing on this galvanic reaction by using it as an excuse to justify the excessive security of the event, which is also falsely justified on the ground of preventing terrorism (which we all know is for the most part fabricated or exaggerated). Of course they realize that the protesters will be even more set off by this gargantuan figure (the most ever spent on a G20/ G8 gangster party events in history),and will provoke them even more, which will prompt EVEN More security. This perpetual cycle is inevitable, because like all G20/ G8 protests, or most protests, the goal is not to bring forth actual change, rather to scream and bellow maniacally at a row of emotionally detached mercenaries, while riding on the hope that someone behind this row of soldiers will sympathize with this collective disdain for their deceptions, and somehow change things for the better. When deep down we all know it will not. You do not ask for freedom, and you certainly do not beg for it, because surely what you will be given is but a more refined and decorated form of oppression. The common excuse is that "we want to be heard"... You think they don't know what you want? LOL!!! I assure you, they know already. . If you are serious about bringing forth actual positive change, you will not brush this warning as idealist jabber and simply continue indulging your romanticized notions of protest, and the hope that your street party will accomplish anything more than providing more cause to their selfish cause, you will take some initiative and start thinking for yourself. You will organize on your OWN TERMS. You are likely leaning towards writing this off as cynicism; yet I assure this is realism, we all need to stop repressing it and face the facts, before it is too late.
5 Reasons why this kind of protest is counterproductive to its desired end
1)With no intention to revolt, the unconscious attention is to be beaten to a pulp by your own tax dollars. This is a cathartic exercise in nature, a mere reaction. It is far from strategic.
2)When you plan your protest around their schedule (waiting for all the puppet leaders to converge on the symbolic affair) you are not protesting the circumstances nor the problems associated with that affair (those decisions made 364 other days of the year) you are merely protesting the event itself. The point of which is meaningless. They love it when we wait for them.
3)10 years ago spending this money for security would seem well beyond absurd, however now we have acquired a tolerance for such extensive measures, only because every protest since this time has been a half assed evasion of the truth; THAT IF YOU WANT SOMETHING FROM THESE PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO FUCKING TAKE IT.
4)It is a convenient opportunity for provocation, and will only justify 1.5 billion on the next facade, and prompt a general increase in security and freedom stifling legislation in the host nation.
5)The leaders of these nations are merely spokesmen for multinational business interests, and banking cartels. Protesting their symbolic gathering of solidarity to topple the oppressive oligarchy that reigns overhead, is like trying to kill a weed, by picking at its green with small tweezers. Make no mistake, these weeds are round-up ready, so please... THINK.
-Nathan Human
This is not rebellion, this is sensation seeking. (image below)