Fortress Toronto: Secrets of the fence
...but IMHO gives little attention to those who have made the fence "necessary:"
A guide to G20 protesters
By THANE BURNETT, QMI Agency
Arrests in Ottawa bank firebombing
Ottawa police have arrested three men in the May 18 firebombing of an Ottawa bankG20: Anti-globalization protests wedded to violence
Mike Cassese/Reuters
Legitimate protests have often been hijacked by violent thugs pretending to be activists.
June 18, 2010 – 5:39 pm
Most Canadians won’t remember the name Carlo Giuliani. But for a day or two in 2001, the death of the 23-year-old anarchist protestor at the G8 Summit in Genoa was imagined to be a sort of Freedom-Flotilla moment for the anti-globalization movement.
Mr. Giuliani, a convicted petty criminal outfitted in balaclava and combat boots, died in the act of hurling a fire extinguisher at a police Land Rover — “direct action,” as protestors of the day euphemistically called it. In a famous photo, capturing one of the last instant’s of Mr. Giuliani’s life, you can see an officer peering out the vehicle’s back window, pistol in hand. The Land Rover appears somewhat isolated, besieged among the chaotic street bottles that unfolded in Genoa throughout the Summit.
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Mr. Giuliani, a convicted petty criminal outfitted in balaclava and combat boots, died in the act of hurling a fire extinguisher at a police Land Rover — “direct action,” as protestors of the day euphemistically called it. In a famous photo, capturing one of the last instant’s of Mr. Giuliani’s life, you can see an officer peering out the vehicle’s back window, pistol in hand. The Land Rover appears somewhat isolated, besieged among the chaotic street bottles that unfolded in Genoa throughout the Summit.
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