G20 Summit
*WARNING* I'm a hothead on this topic and my words will be harsh. It is warranted.
The G20 summit was held in Toronto over the weekend (as everybody knows) and I'd like to express how it felt to be in the city when this debacle unfolded.
For about a week prior to the summit I noticed changes to the downtown core. All mailboxes were removed. Then bus shelters. Then garbage bins- they taped plastic bags to telephone poles- just like last year's garbage strike! awesome, huh? Then all PARK BENCHES were removed. Then major statues were moved by crane (for fear of defiling). Windows were boarded up all over downtown- what the fuck is going on here?
Is there a Level 5 Hurricane on the way??
Then the armies of cops started to appear, day after day. RCMP, other provincial cops, York region cops, gazillions of police officers.
With each passing day towards the summit citizens started to stop going downtown unless they had to. The vibe was so negative and oppressive.
I started to get angry. Who organized this? Who was the genius who decided Toronto was the city where this was going to be held? Disrupting local businesses and citizens lives beyond belief so a few empty-headed "leaders" can sit around a conference table and make piss-poor decisions on the world's behalf? Fuck I was getting mad. I don't protest in the streets because that is simply pointless. I've never seen a protest that went well, that got something accomplished. You're just asking for a baton upside the head...
It was truly sickening to see the destruction caused by some "anarchists" but it was even more sickening to see the lack of police response.
Cop cruisers were set on fire, with radicals stomping on the roofs- where were the police? That's right: nowhere near the scene until the cars had been burning forever. Where were the cops when so many windowfronts were smashed? When the shit was going down? That's right: on some other non-vital street, in their riot gear, waiting for a clue or message on what to fucking do.
And now we have our douchebag Mayor Miller grovelling to Harper about compensation for damages, which I'm sure Harper really cares about..
Our PM calls the summit a "resounding success", and that these types of meetings will always attract "hoodlums".
Excuse me, Mr. Prime Minister, but where do you get off brushing this disaster off? You charged the taxpayers 1.3 BILLION for your little meeting, left a major city reeling from a police state environment which resulted in unprecedented vandalism and destruction.
All for what? And we were given how much notice that this was all going down? Next to NONE!
A shitty "conference" that you could've easily done by video? Get all heads of state on a timing to be "Live" on satellite and voila! No damage to property, people's sanity or police cars! But Shithead Harper does not care at all. He is a true psychopath. I see through him so much it's insane. He has no conscience whatsoever. I'm disgusted that he is Canada's Prime Minister. But we have no one else either. The Liberal party is all but extinct and the majority of ignorant Canadians think Harper is doing a fantastic job. It's sad beyond comprehension.
Did you know that special fancy license plates with the G20 logo were made for special cars?
Did you know they spent 1.2 million on a fake lake that the leaders wouldn't even SEE during the summit? It was at the media pavillion!
Did you know that they spent almost a BILLION on security alone? And that they "secured' JACK FUCKING SHIT FOR THAT MONEY???
I asked 4 different cops on the street why they picked Toronto. Here's the answers I got:
1. It was coin toss
2. It's "good for business"
3. I don't know
4. It's "our turn"
The cops had no answer as to why Toronto was chosen. No one fucking knows. They shut down one of the biggest cities on the planet (imagine the disruption to business and lives!!!!) for NOTHING. For Fuck-All. I'm still pissed off about it. No one has apologized to the citizens of Toronto for being subjected to such insulting chickenshit.
I couldn't walk around my city for three fucking days because a bunch of empty-headed morons decided that they would hold a meaningless pow-wow. A pow-wow on the global economy no less!
How does it fucking look spending truckloads and truckloads and truckloads of money when you're trying to be "fiscally responsible?!??!
FUCK RIGHT OFF.
(I told you I'm a hothead on this one..)
I want Stephen Harper on his knees before the Canadian people. He owes us big time.
But he doesn't care.
He's " a person without conscience"
He only cares about himself.
When the world economy truly tanks where will he be and what will he say?
"I told you so?" HA
he will be saying
"I GOT MINE".
Last edited by Johann; 08-25-2010 at 01:07 PM.
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