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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Lock them up: Why the... · 0 replies · +4 points

Wow. Is this the quality of "journalism" I can expect from this rag? No wonder I choose to get most of my news overseas. How anyone in this country can not be furious that we had, in Toronto, something akin to the War Measures Act enacted (illegal search and detention even priot to summit, violence at Queen's Park that was unprovoked AND THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE SPEECH ZONE, people denied legal council etc. etc. etc.) except IT WAS NOT ENACTED. Everything that was done was ILLEGAL. THERE WAS NO GOVERNMENT DECREED SUSPENSION OF RIGHTS. Not only that, but it's OBVIOUS that the entire thing was used as a free for all by RCMP and perhaps CSIS to stop and investigate people who acted WITHIN THE LAW for their (RCMP) own purposes. The whole thing stinks to high heaven and as a result we should have another McDonald Commission with a new name. Canadians should demand civilian oversight over all policing activities. And where, pray tell, did the 1,000,000,000 dollars go? To fund these organizations that deem themselves above the law? People can say the protesters are weak on this one... complaining about things that don't matter. I say, fall over journalism that doesn't understand the precedent that will be set by this summit if the policing activities are not investigated, should grow a pair themselves.