Monday, June 28, 2010

G20 Summit-Fickle Democracy

Want to know how suddenly and unexpectedly your democratic rights in your democratic country can be overturned? Watch this video!

"Constant vigilance!" says Mad Eye Moody (from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter)


4 comments:

Kim said...

Wow.

Although I understand where the cops are coming from, perhaps there should have been a "police state" declaration before the summit so that these actions would have been legal? ;)

Anonymous said...

This guy should have been more understanding. The police were in a dangerous situation. He could have cooperated. Sometimes rights have to be suspended for the good of the community.

Kim said...

Hmmm ... I don't think anyone disagrees that the summit needed a different type of policing - only that if that was the case, there should have been a temporary law (or something ...) to make this 'legal', because as it stood, it wasn't legal.

Anonymous said...

O really, how about Martial law? R U kidding? Rights are fragile and this is obviously an abuse of his fundamental rights. And u know - if a citizen lies to a police officer, it is called Obstruct Justice. What do we call it when the police chief (and maybe even the premier of the province) lie?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/mcguinty-washes-his-hands-of-police-mistreatment-allegations/article1623731/

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