As Canada's Democracy Trembles, a New Global Architecture Emerges

[kpete]

Source: IPS

As Canada's Democracy Trembles, a New Global Architecture Emerges
Anthony Fenton

TORONTO, 28 Jun (IPS) - Nearly 600 people were arrested as global leaders and elites met behind a fortified perimetre during the G8 and G20 Summits in Huntsville and Toronto this weekend.

The tension was palpable on the subway as the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) announced that under a "police directive" all routes in and out of the downtown core would be suspended midday Saturday.

Several blocks north of the protests that were the assumed cause of the transit shutdown, IPS observed a police officer conducting random searches of pedestrians. Asked why he was doing so, the officer, who refused to identify himself, replied, "Do you want to be responsible for a terrorist attack?"

The officer stated that the transit system was shut down due to a "terrorist threat" posed by anarchists, that a cache of Molotov cocktails had been discovered, and that the crude weapons were "all over the city".

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[DJ13]

1. Its almost like the elitist leaders had to hide because they know their decisions arent popular

Nah, that cant be it.....

[billymayshere]

2. How many pissed off peasants do you think ever got across those moats?

[Odin2005]

3. "Terrorist Anarchists"? They aren't even bothering with original BS anymore.

[grasswire]

4. how can this happen?

I don't think a state cabinet in the U.S. could get away with this:

"The stealthy side of this process revealed itself on Thursday, when police arrested an individual under the 'Public Works Act', a provision passed in secret by Ontario cabinet officials earlier this month that allowed police to question, search and potentially detain anyone within five metres of the G20 security fence."

In secret? What the hell?!

[unkachuck]

5. it seems the fascists....

....are alive and well in Canada....

"...that allowed police to question, search and potentially detain anyone within five metres of the G20 security fence."

....we need to convene the P6.8 Billion Peoples Conference next year in Toronto to determine if we, the citizens of the world, wish to continue to support these fake democracies and fake economic systems that we all seem to be living under....fascism by any other name is still fascism....

[lunasun]

6. let me know when to be there!!!! nt