Dear Nazi-sympathizers,
It's changed colours, it's dropped the fruity moustaches, it's even changed names... but here it is, right here, in Toronto, right now - full fledged Nazi-style police-state restrictions, enforced by T.A.A.P.S. To be honest with you, if I was more of a melodramatic person, I'd probably say something like, "alright, I'm officially going to blow my head off now". Truth is, that wouldn't change anything, and it would be one less "terrorist" for them to worry about.
You can say I'm overreacting all you want. You can say I'm looking at all this the wrong way. You can justify this however you want. None of your mental-acrobats take away the fact that there is no such thing as freedom of speech anymore in this country. If you disagree, head on down to the G20 Summit June 26/27, see how close you can get to the building where the world leaders are meeting, grab a megaphone, and try to prove me wrong. See how many seconds you last until you get maced, tazed, or beaten senseless. Welcome to hell. Medicate yourself to ignore it however you choose, but it's still here.
If you limit even ONE person's freedom to speech, you are limiting EVERYONE'S, because you are proving to the rest that they cannot say what the limited person was attempting to. Wake up people, we have to do something about this.
Trinity-Bellwoods park to be G20 protest zone
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Trinity-Bellwoods Park on Queen St. W. will become the designated protest zone for the G20 summit on June 26 and 27.
Updated: Wed Apr. 28 2010 6:54:29 PM
ctvtoronto.ca
CTV News has learned of a plan to try to keep activists far away from the G20 meetings at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this June, by creating a designated protest zone in Trinity Bellwoods Park.
The park is located roughly 2 kilometres away on Queen Street.
Police spokesperson Meaghan Gray would not say whether officials are expecting violent protests.
“I don’t know what we are expecting,” she told CTV Toronto. “We are strongly encouraging anyone who wants to protest during the G20 to use that location.”
It’s not the first time a designated protest zone has been created for the G20. Last year, police used the same tactic in London.
One woman who lived in London at the time, and who now resides in Toronto near Trinity Bellwoods, says she can understand the reasoning behind the zone.
“It was peaceful and they just camped out there,” she said of the London zone. “But obviously things could escalate, and you don’t want to see horrible things happen.”
Another nearby resident, Philipe Fiorio, said the park would be a poor choice for the zone.
“If you look around, there are kids playing. It’s a family area,” he said.
Police said they will transmit live video of the protests to world leaders in the Convention Centre -- if they choose to watch.
With a report by CTV Toronto’s Austin Delaney