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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>...those who make peaceful r{3voJ}ution
impossible... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The display of increasingly brutal, arrogant,
and astonishingly stoic inhuman/robotic/Borg-mind paramilitary police
muscle at the economic summit G20 events (London, Pittsburgh, Toronto) and
at the political conventions of both major parties should be one hell of a
concern for everyone.</FONT></DIV>
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<P>"The fact that there were no serious injuries arising from all of the
actions of the police over the course of the weekend is quite frankly
extraordinary under the circumstances," said [Toronto] police chief
Bill Blair. Officers "showed remarkable restraint in the face of
enormous provocation," he added. "They did their jobs."</P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000>A fully armed and armoured cop holding the
hapless female victim down by the neck is for sure fairly remarkable
restraint. One can imagined the silly girls might even
have addressed her adversary with
some (*gasp*) disrespectful expressions of dismay.
Provocation indeed. Who could resist threatening them with rape under such
conditions? After all they didn't *actually* "rape" them now did
they? </FONT></P>
<P dir=ltr></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>For those who point out "frankly
extraordinary" (under the circumstances) non-violence on the part of the
police (paucity of bloodshed unto loss of life) -- that is more of a
characteristic of the protestors than of the police. There was no real
test of how far the police would go because of how far the protestors were
willing/able to take the matter.</FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When the awareness of oppression finally sinks
in and reaches the point that the oppressed are more willing to die than to
suffer their chains, then it will be difficult to speak of "remarkable
restraint" in such sanguine tones.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>From: "C. G. Estabrook" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>galliher@illinois.edu</FONT></A><FONT size=2
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 9:09 AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Oh,
Canada!</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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face=Arial>G20 cops ‘threatened women with rape’<BR>By Daniel
Tencer<BR>Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 -- 8:33 pm<BR><BR>Journalists covering the
G20 summit in Toronto, Canada, last weekend have <BR>accused the local police of
threatening them with rape, using male officers to <BR>strip-search young women,
and even inappropriately touching an underage girl.<BR><BR>Four reporters have
filed complaints with the province of Ontario's police <BR>oversight agency.
According to the Canwest News Service, those four include <BR>Jesse Rosenfeld, a
freelancer for the UK's Guardian whose alleged beating at the <BR>hands of
Toronto police was chronicled on Twitter, as well Amy Miller of the
<BR>Alternative Media Center.<BR><BR>Miller told a press conference earlier this
week that she had her press pass <BR>ripped away from her and was "throttled by
the neck and held down" while trying <BR>to record a confrontation between
police and protesters. She was detained for 13 <BR>hours in a cage in a
converted film studio on the city's east side, along with <BR>about 25 other
women.<BR><BR>"I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be
gang-banged, I <BR>was told that I was never going to want to act as a
journalist again by making <BR>sure that I would be repeatedly raped while I was
in jail," Miller said.<BR><BR>Miller described the police's alleged behavior as
"repulsive and completely <BR>inappropriate."<BR>Story continues
below...<BR><BR>She also said she saw women being strip-searched by male
officers, and that many <BR>of the women who emerged from detention were
"definitely traumatized."<BR><BR>Reporters also allege that "one under-aged girl
was improperly touched by a male <BR>officer while held at an Eastern Ave.
detention center," the QMI news agency <BR>reports.<BR><BR>In a rare criticism
of Canada, Amnesty International called on the country's <BR>political
leadership to hold a public inquiry into the policing of the G20 <BR>summit,
which ran from June 26 to 27 and attracted between 10,000 and 25,000
<BR>protesters. All told, more than 900 people were arrested during the summit
-- <BR>reportedly a record high for this kind of summit meeting.<BR><BR>Faced
with growing criticism, political leaders and Toronto police chief Bill
<BR>Blair have been fighting back against accusations that the police response
to a <BR>gang of black-clad anarchists setting police cars on fire and breaking
windows <BR>was excessive.<BR><BR>Chief Blair held a conference Tuesday where he
described the vandals as <BR>"terrorists" and put on display a cache of weapons
evidently seized from <BR>protesters at the summit. But the public-relations
triumph turned to <BR>embarrassment when it emerged that some of the weapons on
display were not <BR>related to the G20 protests.<BR><BR>The Toronto Sun reports
that some of the weapons there, including arrows seized <BR>by police near the
G20 site, were toys that belonged to a man who was on his way <BR>to a fantasy
role-playing game when he was stopped by police, a day before the <BR>G20
summit.<BR><BR>The Canadian Civil Liberties Association said that police conduct
during the <BR>meeting of the leaders of the world's top economies, was "at
times, <BR>disproportionate, arbitrary and excessive."<BR><BR>The response to
pockets of criminal activity was also "unprecedented, <BR>disproportionate and,
at times, unconstitutional," the rights group said in a <BR>report.<BR><BR>The
abuses "exceeded the threshold of a few isolated incidents" and "they demand
<BR>accountability," it said in calling for an inquiry into police
conduct.<BR><BR>Toronto's mayor and police chief Blair said the city's Police
Services Board, a <BR>civilian oversight panel, would review the squad's
actions, which they also <BR>defended.<BR><BR>"The fact that there were no
serious injuries arising from all of the actions of <BR>the police over the
course of the weekend is quite frankly extraordinary under <BR>the
circumstances," said police chief Bill Blair.<BR><BR>Officers "showed remarkable
restraint in the face of enormous provocation," he <BR>added. "They did their
jobs."<BR><BR></FONT><A
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