Meet Officer "Bubbles" in the vid below. He epitomizes the Toronto police and G20 Security people. He's rude, intimidating, coercive and disproportionately aggressive. I suspect his behaviour is jerky in other ways as well. He cares little for Charter Rights and Freedoms and he has the sense of humour of an angry two year old. Take a look at the young woman he is being mean to. Are you kidding me, Officer Bubbles? And catch that first look by the female officer beside Officer Bubbles as she realizes what kind of spiel he is about to do. Is she embarrassed to be standing beside him or am I reading too much into her facial expression?




Officer Bubbles got under my skin even though his behaviour is mild compared to the criminal behaviour of many other police officers, the ones who assaulted and injured peaceful citizens, who ripped a prosthetic leg off an amputee (because he might take it off himself and use it as a weapon!), and the ones who tossed innocent citizens into cages, denied them legal counsel, food, water and sanitation.

The following vid is from the same neighbourhood of Toronto. My daughter used to live there. It got me thinking about how this kind of oppression could be mounted in anyone's neighbourhood, anywhere in Canada. In asking police forces to serve and protect us, are we safe from them and those who control them? Do you want to trade the security provided by police services for the loss of Charter Rights? Is that a fair thing to ask of a population? What if it is not even being asked? What if it simply is ordered, part of a big plan by unseen individuals?



Of course police forces across the country are watching Toronto to see what they can get away with in the future. The cages purchased for the G20 and used to detain a thousand in Toronto can be easily transported to any location in Canada -- far easier than building jails for mass arrest. Canada now has the capability to incarcerate masses of people in short order -- anywhere in the country. That is what the G20 has done for us. The mechanisms and tools are in place. A billion dollars didn't buy just security for the G20 bosses. It bought the tools, procedures and protocols for trammeling dissent and incarcerating hundreds, if not thousands. It bought a big step toward the police state that the conspiracy theorists keep yammering about. A billion dollars of our money has been used to buy what is needed to oppress us.

The only thing missing is the legal right to behave as they did and yet, the police acted as if they did have the legal right to behave as they did. The often brutal "catch and release" strategy is abhorrent as well as patently illegal. Is it a precursor to the legalization of extraordinary police powers at the whim of politicians or even police chiefs or upper level bureaucrats?

We cannot let them get away with the illegalities and injustices of the Toronto G20. We must support all initiatives to bring to justice the criminal elements among police, their leaders and their political bosses. We must not only take back the streets, but take back our country. It is more than a matter of shameful behaviour by a police force. Much more. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been violated multiple times. The police have committed assault multiple times. Citizens have been deprived, humiliated, victimized and traumatized by those who are charged with protecting them. Peaceful dissent has been re-framed as criminal behaviour, though it is the response to peaceful dissent that has been criminal.

We are being tested. Some people want to be able to exercise absolute authority over us at some point in the future. Is this such a far fetched notion now?