"Only in my nightmares is this my Canada"

Montreal Simon: The G20 Gorilla Show: My Video
As I said about a week ago, I've always
wondered what it would be like to live in the kind of police state
Stephen Harper would create, if he ever got a majority.



Well now I
know.
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Let the protesters protest

CathiefromCanada: Let the protesters protest
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Even Lloyd Robertson and Lisa LaFlamme looked
uncomfortable when they were talking about the new secret Ontario
law that basically criminalizes
dissent and would have allowed wholesale arrests of G20 protesters
at tomorrow's big rally. As Marcus
Gee writes:

Canadians who are simply walking along the
street are under no obligation to tell police their name or agree to be
searched. “Papers, please,” are not words that people in this country
need to fear.

Police -- who actually must be pretty bored,
with thousands of them standing around day after day with virtually
nothing to do -- are already
abusing their shiney new law:. . . once the erosion of
rights starts, it’s hard to stop. On Friday, Toronto police were
stopping and searching people entering Allan Gardens, a public park
about three kilometres from the fenced off-zone where the G20 leaders
are due to arrive Saturday.
“We just want to make sure you’re not
carrying anything dangerous,” one officer told me, after asking for
identification, as another flipped through my notebook.
The problem,
it seems, is that anti-G20 protesters were having a (perfectly legal)
rally in Allan Gardens prior to setting out on a march.
“Do you have
anything here that might hurt me?” the officer said as his partner
looked through my glasses case.
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