Remember when Paul Martin and Scott Reid warned us that Stephen Harper had a hidden agenda to send soldiers with guns onto the streets of Canadians cities? Well if you listen to some of the more extreme voices on the left hand side regarding this G20 Summit, you might very well be convinced of a spooky hidden agenda. Was moving the G20 to Toronto just a rouse for Harper to invade Toronto? Can we expect to see tanks rolling down Yonge Street? These are the kinds of questions that we need to be asking right now!
But on a more serious note, have you noticed the rising tension between the anarchists and the anti-globalizationists? They have strategically co-existed in the past under the "enemy of my enemy" mantra as a way to maximize the number of people who show up at a protest. I'm sure most anarchists are against globalization, but I'd say the majority of anti-globalizationists are not anarchists. One group wants no government and to live in a lawless society, while the other wants big government to buy them a house and subsidize their salary if they don't feel like getting a job (and no international commerce or consumption of fuel).
I attended the Opening Ceremony protest in Vancouver that featured a variety show of different protest groups. You had the anarchist clowns running around dressed up like Ninjas kicking over garbage cans and smashing windows, then you had the people dressed up like trees lobbying the government for more money and free houses. I was standing beside a group of tree people when a squad of anarchist ninjas ran by, and the tree people did not look impressed. You could cut the tension with a chainsaw. How are you supposed to get a free house and subsidized wages with no government? They are ideologically opposed to each other, unlike the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Canada.
They just talked about this on CTV's Question Period and one pundit said this G20 price tag would have been a lot smaller had we used the military instead of the RCMP (lower wages and no overtime pay), then Taber started laughing hysterically and said "you can't have soldiers with guns in the streets of Toronto."
ReplyDeleteTaber is even more annoying on television than in print.
Funny thing is the media seem to have selctive amnesia and don't remember that in 2002 the Chretien Liberals spent well over $300 million to have the G8 at Kananaskis.
ReplyDeleteThis G8 being teamed with the G20 in Toronto of course is going to be costly, blame the terrorists, anarchists and their useful idiot followers for that.
Bruce
The Chretien Liberals spent well over $300 million in 2002 for the two day G8 in Kananaskis, of course a G8 in Huntsville combined with the G20 in 2010 in Toronto is going to cost.
ReplyDeleteWant to save a billion a year?
Scrap the CBC.
Potato/potatoe - what is the difference between anarchists and anti-globalwarmists - I say not much. One group wears Che t-shirts and camouflage face bandannas and the other wears black baclava's and camouflage pants. They all destroy property, set buildings and cars on fire and throw poop bombs. They want chaos. Labels matter little in this tight little world of mindless followers.
ReplyDeleteLet's have an open audit of the CBC.... Let's see how much Terry, Peter and Kady spends to bash the PM of Canada..... Let's see how much was spent on the Jafer affair..... Let's see how much it cost to send a reporter to the sunny south to interview, but failed to look at video at the Charlottetown airport until Peter said after it was over and he thought he could bash the PM... it really wasn't that bad.... Why didn't he ask Easter who his informer at the airport was before time to bash the PM!!!!
ReplyDelete"Is Harper preparing to invade Toronto?"
ReplyDeleteI thought the Prime Minister had to get the OK from parliament in order to invade a foreign country.
Perhaps the media understand it would have better rating if the thugs had an ability to disrupt and do more property damage.
ReplyDeleteIf this goes on without unlike COP15, Quebec City, Pittsburgh the media will have a difficult time talking about the police state under the CPC.
Fife appears to have a crush on Chretien, it is almost a creepy as Mansbridge and the weather girl.
Do you remember Chretien's joke about fellow Canadians being pepper sprayed at the APEC inquiry?
Donolo was busy complaining to the CBC about the bias of Terry Millewski.
http://canadiansense.blogspot.com/2010/01/memories-of-liberal-democracy.html
Good one Joe - Toronto is a bastion of lefty, mental instability in a sea of ordinary Canadians. Between Toronto Transit, Mayor Miller, Dalton McGinty, NDP and the Liberal Party of Toronto, you have to wonder at the effects of smog on the population. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteThey should have these summits up north where the crazies are less able to get to.
ReplyDeleteIt should be almost temperate now in the land of the midnight sun.
Even if you have to build the infrastructure, it's gotta be less than in Toronto.
Tows is a retard. I feel sorry for Harper that he is surrounded by so many weak ministers. I can understand why he centralizes so much power in the PMO.
ReplyDeleteThis Conservative routine of crying that the "LIberals did it" or the "Liberals made us do it" are examples of spectacularly weak leadership. Ironman Harper is a huge wimp or the strongest willed leader of all time, depending on when it suits the Conservatives. LAME.
Gee anonymous, that kind of name calling shows an extreme insensitivity to the mentally handicapped. Shame...
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