So apparently it takes three big strong police officers to manhandle one guy. Naked and handcuffed.Don’t know whether this is before or after they beat the shit out of him.And please, spare us the pathetically transparent bullshit about security. There…
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Mistakes were made, Bill Blair says | #G20
So Bill Blair’s had some time to reflect on last summer’s G20 clusterfuck, and good and loyal servant he is, he’s graced us with a report. Among other things, he praises his officers for “facing danger and extreme provocation.”Indeed. Takes a special k…
Continue readingSo Toronto cops think they’re the #G20 whipping boys?
From … guess which piece of birdshit-catcher. The usual “police morale is low” bullshit. A sample:The situation has worsened with each new allegation of police brutality and little has been done to restore the faith in those sworn to serve and protec…
Continue reading@cityslikr on the danger – and stupidity – of looking for false equivalencies
An Open Letter To Councillor Josh Matlow « All Fired Up In The Big SmokeThere’s nothing that says “balance” is sacrosanct. When one side of an argument is based on facts, reflection and careful consideration of evidence and the other side is based on …
Continue reading‘Respect for Taxpayers’ is a load of crap
True, I may be undermining weeks of arguing for engaging the people we disagree with in a spirit of openness and respect. And name-calling isn’t going to help us show them how they’re actually voting against their own interests, or reveal the corporati…
Continue reading@marcusbgee is right about Bloor Street, but for the wrong reasons
Ah, Marcus. The Globe’s ideologically reliable municipal-affairs curmudgeon is kind of like a stopped clock that way.Of course, the analogy only goes so far, because you don’t have to ask a stopped clock why it’s right twice a day, and that’s a degree …
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Following the example of my friends impolitical and pogge.
A few years old, but like a fine wine, it ages well …
Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo by hammockmusic
Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo by hammockmusic
Continue readingOn the Canucks Riot, Protest, and Division : Politics, Re-Spun
On the Canucks Riot, Protest, and Division : Politics, Re-SpunAnd more.Good lord, someone’s actually pointing out the class dimension inherent in the Vancouver riot, and drawing the connection between that and the corporatist power structure’s nasty li…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate » When You Don’t Know Your History, You’re Bound to Make Up S@@t
The Sixth Estate » When You Don’t Know Your History, You’re Bound to Make Up S@@tAnd again. Either the Vancouver Police and the corporate media are taking stupid pills, or they’re serving some agenda. Now let’s think about this: who benefits from …
Continue readingPorcupine blog: Explaining Conservative Support Among “Ordinary People”.
Porcupine blog: Explaining Conservative Support Among “Ordinary People”.I can’t believe I haven’t seen this until now.
Continue reading@thekeenanwire, #TOpoli and that whole ‘deserve’ thing, redux
Go and read this piece from Ed Keenan in The Grid.
He’s right of course, and you don’t need a master’s degree in public administration to know that public services cost money. And you don’t need cheap childish gimmicks, either.
The troublesome part i…
Continue readingOn The Road To Metropolis « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke
@cityslikr’s pal Urban Sophisticat on the Six Sigma sickness currently afflicting our municipal leadership. Read it now.
On The Road To Metropolis « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke
Dude’s bang on. We’re not talking about leadership or vision any more, …
Continue readingOpposing the #HarperRegime: thinking strategically over the next four years
Sorry, dear friends. This is going to be one of those times when I try to get cerebral, but not too cerebral, and end up sounding like a wanker. Business as usual, in other words.
In the context of last week’s Twitter exchange with @thekeenanwire over…
Continue readingSleaze, slush funds and the Auditor-General’s report: This is supposed to make a difference?
With the release of Sheila Fraser’s report detailing a record of malfeasance and misdirection regarding G8/G20 spending, a whole raft of familiar patterns re-emerges.
Sleaze, slush funds, money earmarked for border infrastructure spent in Huntsville (…
Continue reading@thekeenanwire and the police / government / society we deserve
Over at The Grid, Edward Keenan’s got a thoughtful and compelling piece about the police assault on Dorian Barton at last summer’s G20, and the shameful saga surrounding the SIU’s on-again, off-again attempts to investigate.
We all know how that song …
Continue readingThat ‘disrespectful’ Brigette sparks the wrath of Ottawa’s Villagers
Really, it’s just so awkward when the lower orders forget their rightful station in the order of things.
The harrumphing, glaring and disdainful sniffing from the self-appointed members of Ottawa’s elite is palpable. The political and media establis…
Continue readingRe Brigette DePape: I will now eat my words
What was I saying about having to build an extra-parliamentary opposition?
This young woman shows us all how it’s done. If saying she’s got cojones makes me sound sexist, I apologize and beg your indulgence, because it’s said in a spirit of unabashe…
Continue readingAccountability from the #G20? Not gonna happen
From the Tumblr a couple of hours ago.
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Harper’s "tough on crime" bill: meaner, more expensive, and not making us any safer
From the essential Alex Himelfarb, another beautifully written and persuasively argued essay detailing everything wrong with both the omnibus crime legislation and the nasty, vindictive and short-sighted sentiments behind it.
It’s sadly ironic, he wri…
Continue readingThe challenge we face
I know, I know. I spent far too much time and energy on it, to no avail. What can you do?
But reaching people like that is what we have to do, and it doesn’t do any good to just write them off as zombies or shallow dullards incapable of critical thoug…
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