Comments on: Weekend of weekends (part 1)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:06:07 +0000

I'd be happy to put all those people who are convicted of a crime during the G20 to work off the damage, Stanya. Like people used to do. Orange jumpsuits and ankle chains :)

By: Stanya

Stanya — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:22:18 +0000

Dear Patrick,you gave us beautifully true pictures of what've happend in Toronto during G20 and G8, thanks for that. We were watching all days and you are right, at the begining it was all peacefull until those stupid black blockers and their followers didn't come into the picture. Our police was remarkable and truly I admire them, they treated the situations with great overlook and really well. I would think in some situations they should be sharper. All the media should speak truth the same way. I am almost positive that Mr. Toronto was one of those idiots otherwise his comment wouldn't be so stupid. Whatever was happenig these days in Toronto was remarkably ridicoulus. Summit was wortless, they didn't produce anyting worth of this enormous amount of money spent for their security and whole thing was crowned with visitors stupidity and negligence. How dare they to protest in the name of human rights by braking and destroying other people's property and damaging our beautiful Toronto. In my opinion somebody was responsible for whole miserable idea of Summit held this way in Toronto and those people should be punished for all the damage not only material damage but also for spending such enormous taxpayers money and for WHAT?

nd how to heal this wounds?

There is no better way to make citizens happy than pleased us with another taxes hence HST. Shame on all of our governments. Instead of to take better care of their own people and country they spent money for anybody and everything else in the world trying to make us beleive that it will bring Canada on the world map. How idiotic.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:38:26 +0000

A salient point, Mr. Toronto. I've heard much the same thing from many of the "protesters" marching the streets.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:31:22 +0000

That was probably a wise move, Teena. Anyone there really had to be prepared to be considered part of the mob.

By: Mr. Toronto

Mr. Toronto — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:46:14 +0000

You sir, are a douchebag.

By: Teena in Toronto

Teena in Toronto — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:09:52 +0000

I started away from it all.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:59:51 +0000

Hey James, the "matrix of power" thing sounds like the same stuff being peddled by the likes of infowars.com (the video you see here — banners being flown at the protest). To be honest, anyone using that slogan sounds kinda dumb to me. Propaganda runs both ways, that was made clear over this past weekend. I'm glad to have witnessed the events first-hand and can tell you without a moment's pause that some of the things being said by the protesters are nothing short of bold-faced lies. The problem is that these yahoos are mixed in with legitimate protesters and their message is quickly illegitimized because of it.

When you're in front of a protest group screaming "you can't tell us to shut the fuck up!" — and they're being escorted down a street by police, blocking traffic, etc. you gotta wonder what's wrong with them. No one was even asking them to keep it down let alone shut up. People shouting "these are our streets!" with heavy French accents is another bit of stupidity that I can't get over. No, not their streets. *sigh*

By: James

James — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:49:22 +0000

Great post, Patrick. Nice to hear from the front lines. The ones being quoted by the media in Seattle sound sincere but perhaps guided by something other than narcissism. However, just because you can say "matrix of power" doesn't make you an intellectual or suggest that you even know what it means.

Peace,

James