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Just the latest on the G20 Martial Law from last June, where apparently police were given "wartime powers" with the secret "Public Works Protection Act" during the summit in Canada. Except they were more than wartime powers. They were used far beyond the original 1939 statute they were based on that just allowed police to question people choosing to enter public buildings while Canada was at war with Germany. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair "refused" to cooperate with the ombudsmen's investigation and wouldn't let his officers answer questions either. Then again: the matter of "who" gave them these powers is being largely ignored.
Today, the Toronto Star exposed what was obvious after the police Special Investigative Unit (SIU) absolved the police for any crimes committed during the G20 Summit: the tons of video and photo evidence proving otherwise. The acidic Rosie DiManno wrote the cover story with giant pictures of what was obvious: many police officers could be identified easily, either firsthand or by other officers who were in the pictures and saw others right beside them committing crimes. What is this narrative doing? What kind of relationships is this creating between the public and the police? What kind of policies can be implemented on all of us by this?
Below is an example of the Orwellian editorial changes to mainstream online articles after they're first posted, albeit a fairly mild one. But, we can still see how our reaction to this is changed by the end, or it's given to us. We're supposed to think that the right people are getting upset for us - and more upset than we want to get anyway. They're also ontrolling what is "official" or "accurate" criticism for us to parrot. If many of us hear otherwise, we'll authoritatively correct the person telling us based on this spin. The Canadian Press article on Yahoo Canada went from "questions" to "answers". This basically helps shut down our thinking about it.
However, if we understand how the story of the Toronto G20 Martial Law and how it's managed can be used by governments that acted criminally in the first place, then perhaps we can resist it. Our atomizing culture is supposed to leave all of us trapped alone at the mercy of the state, with no one to trust because there's no one we can talk to about this stuff. This includes cops given criminal orders and then hung out to dry later, just like soldiers at Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib were after following orders to torture. Ironically, we'll still likely see the cops being spied on more to make sure they follow orders - then given more criminal orders.
People should see how this process is executed daily to see how we're beaten down by it, including repeating the spin until we're dizzy and lies until we're liars. This affects every aspect of our lives, including our ability to value each other. If we're forced into parroting illogically subdued reactions to "wartime powers" being given secretly to police in Canada - and used - among a million other serious things - we won't respect each other. After all, if nobody is allowed to say anything serious, then it's hard to take them seriously. That's the world being created now on our watch. So, while we can stay informed, we should know the impact.
Living in the "Twitterverse" means - just a few years after "blogs" were first introduced - that even a few short paragraphs on a serious subject matter may be beyond the comprehension of many. We don't mind hearing bad news, but we don't want to hear much about it - or anything else. Since this process of "deliberately dumbing us down" (Charlotte Iserbyt) has been confirmed by many researchers and noticed and admitted by just about everybody, instead of just approaching info the way we "want" to, we need to understand "why" we want to. We also need to reach out to other people before our inability to think leads to our inability to act.
We often need to feel inspired to feel better - and then do something. So, here's the work of former Congressman Bob Barr who I recently heard on The Alex Jones Show (6/Dec/10). His organization Liberty Guard (.org) is creating a network of people opposed to new U.S. airport naked body scanners and "enhanced" patdowns (e.g. "torture" = "enhanced interrogation") who identify themselves as part of a "gang" with a simple card they download from a website. Beyond the need for legal teams to challenge a bunch of stuff, including "wartime" powers in Canada, the idea of cards to show you know others who want freedom isn't a bad idea.
Incidentally, checking in with Charlotte Iserbyt to understand the real purpose of (F)education isn't a bad idea, because even if we think we're fine, if we allow this "fascist mission creep" to continue, our abandoned children will be in charge and upset, or just used to the new fascist policies. Many people don't talk much to - or - about their children anymore since it's not in style. This is part of our scientific indoctrination through what we're given to repeat by our media. Now that so much corruption is public we can all see it, but don't know how to react, what to react to, feel hopeless or don't care. There's a reason for this. We should find it.
Peace,
BK
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Download - The Alex Jones Radio Show - December 6, 2010 - Commercial Free MP3
Talks with former federal prosecutor and a former member of the United States House of Representatives, Bob Barr. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election. Mr. Barr has filed a Freedom of Information Act request in response to the revelation that the the Department of Homeland Security has been keeping tabs on the Drudge Report and other prominent media outlets who have spearheaded a nationwide revolt against invasive TSA airport security measures.
Alex also talks with whistleblower Charlotte Iserbyt who served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration. Iserbyt is the author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, a chronological history of the past 100+ years of education reform. The book argues that the academic meltdown in our public education system is intentional. It is now available at the Infowar Store. Alex also covers the latest breaking news and takes your call.
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Gulag Archipelago Excerpt on resisting tyranny
An excerpt from "The Gulag Archipelago" ... on how to resist fascism & tyranny. The lesson that is just as important today as it was half a century ago.
"During an arrest, you think since you are not guilty, how can they arrest you? Why should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make your situation worse; you will make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We did not love freedom enough. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself."
- The Gulag Archipelago (Paperback) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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G20 law gave cops 'wartime' power, resulted in mass rights violation: ombudsman
By The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – 1 hour 34 minutes ago
* A police officer looks on in front of a placard during a demonstration as the G20 summit draws to a close in Toronto, Sunday, June 27, 2010. Ontario's watchdog says the province was "opportunistic" when it granted police "wartime" powers during the G20 summit in Toronto.The result, ombudsman Andre Marin says in a report today, was a "mass violation of civil rights" during peacetime. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young (Photo)
TORONTO - The Ontario government was opportunistic when it gave police wartime powers during the G20 summit in Toronto, resulting in a mass violation of civil rights in peacetime, ombudsman Andre Marin said Tuesday.
The Liberal government quietly promoted the use of a "likely illegal regulation" to give police "extravagant" powers on the eve of the June summit, Marin said. Police, he added, compounded matters with deliberate miscommunication about the reach of their new powers.
"Apart from insiders in the government of Ontario, only members of the Toronto Police Service knew that the rules of the game had changed, and they were the ones holding the 'go directly to jail' cards," he wrote in his report.
More than 1,000 people were arrested during the G20 weekend in Toronto after a small group of protesters clad in black burned police cars and smashed store windows.
"Many of those stopped and questioned by police under the Public Works Protection Act were involved in demonstrations, but many others were simply Torontonians going about the activities of their daily lives," Marin wrote in his report, "Caught in the Act."
The act was used "to intimidate and arrest people who had done no harm," he added.
Police and politicians allowed everyone to believe the law gave police the power to demand identification and detain anyone within five metres of the G20 security fences.
In reality, the update of a 1939 law designed to protect public buildings during war allowed police to ask for identification from people entering the security zone, not outside it.
Marin said he was "bewildered" when Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair referred to a five-metre rule, which did not exist. It should have been called a five-kilometre rule given police were stopping and searching people very far from the G20 security fences, he added.
Blair refused to co-operate with the ombudsman's investigation and also declined to have his officers answer Marin's questions.
The original 1939 regulation was passed after Canada declared war on Germany, to protect public buildings such as courthouses. Its use during the G20 "was of dubious legality and no utility," Marin wrote.
"It was opportunistic and inappropriate to use a war measure that allows extravagant police authority to arrest and search people in the name of public works," he wrote.
"Here in 2010 is the province of Ontario conferring wartime powers on police officers in peacetime."
The decision by the Liberal cabinet should not have been kept shrouded in secrecy, added Marin.
"Going into the weekend of the G20 summit, no one knew about the regulation — not the public, not the press, city administrators or even key members of the Integrated Security Unit in charge of summit security," he said.
"Worse, the ministry's decision not to publicize the regulation entrapped citizens who took the trouble to inform themselves of their rights and wound up caught in the act's all but invisible web."
The ombudsman also blasted the Ministry of Public Safety for failing to ensure that police were adequately trained on the regulation, which he said contributed to the "chaos and confusion" on city streets during the summit.
"The ministry simply handed over to the Toronto Police inordinate powers, without an efforts made to ensure those powers would not be misunderstood," wrote Marin.
"It may have been the best kept secret in Ontario's legislative history. By changing the rules of the game without real notice, (it) acted as a trap for the responsible."
Marin launched a 90-day probe after getting 167 complaints about the so-called secret law governing police powers during the G20.
http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/g20-law-gave-cops-wartime-power-resulted-mass.html
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G20 law gave cops 'wartime' power, resulted in mass rights violation: ombudsman
The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – 2 hours 40 minutes ago
* A police officer looks on in front of a placard during a demonstration as the G20 summit draws to a close in Toronto, Sunday, June 27, 2010. Ontario's watchdog says the province was "opportunistic" when it granted police "wartime" powers during the G20 summit in Toronto.The result, ombudsman Andre Marin says in a report today, was a "mass violation of civil rights" during peacetime. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young (Photo)
TORONTO - The Ontario government was opportunistic when it gave police wartime powers during the G20 summit in Toronto, resulting in a mass violation of civil rights in peacetime, ombudsman Andre Marin said Tuesday.
The Liberal government quietly promoted the use of a "likely illegal regulation" to give police "extravagant" powers on the eve of the June summit, Marin said. Police, he added, compounded matters with deliberate miscommunication about the reach of their new powers.
"Apart from insiders in the government of Ontario, only members of the Toronto Police Service knew that the rules of the game had changed, and they were the ones holding the 'go directly to jail' cards," he wrote in his report.
More than 1,000 people were arrested during the G20 weekend in Toronto after a small group of protesters clad in black burned police cars and smashed store windows.
"Many of those stopped and questioned by police under the Public Works Protection Act were involved in demonstrations, but many others were simply Torontonians going about the activities of their daily lives," Marin wrote in his report, "Caught in the Act."
The act was used "to intimidate and arrest people who had done no harm," he added.
Police and politicians allowed everyone to believe the law gave police the power to demand identification and detain anyone within five metres of the G20 security fences.
In reality, the update of a 1939 law designed to protect public buildings during war allowed police to ask for identification from people entering the security zone, not outside it.
Marin said he was "bewildered" when Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair referred to a five-metre rule, which did not exist. It should have been called a five-kilometre rule given police were stopping and searching people very far from the G20 security fences, he added.
Blair refused to co-operate with the ombudsman's investigation and also declined to have his officers answer Marin's questions.
The original 1939 regulation was passed after Canada declared war on Germany, to protect public buildings such as courthouses. Its use during the G20 "was of dubious legality and no utility," Marin wrote.
"It was opportunistic and inappropriate to use a war measure that allows extravagant police authority to arrest and search people in the name of public works," he wrote.
"Here in 2010 is the province of Ontario conferring wartime powers on police officers in peacetime."
The decision by the Liberal cabinet should not have been kept shrouded in secrecy, added Marin.
"Going into the weekend of the G20 summit, no one knew about the regulation — not the public, not the press, city administrators or even key members of the Integrated Security Unit in charge of summit security," he said.
"Worse, the ministry's decision not to publicize the regulation entrapped citizens who took the trouble to inform themselves of their rights and wound up caught in the act's all but invisible web."
The ombudsman also blasted the Ministry of Public Safety for failing to ensure that police were adequately trained on the regulation, which he said contributed to the "chaos and confusion" on city streets during the summit.
"The ministry simply handed over to the Toronto Police inordinate powers, without an efforts made to ensure those powers would not be misunderstood," wrote Marin.
"It may have been the best kept secret in Ontario's legislative history. By changing the rules of the game without real notice, (it) acted as a trap for the responsible."
Marin launched a 90-day probe after getting 167 complaints about the so-called secret law governing police powers during the G20.
http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/g20-law-gave-cops-wartime-power-resulted-mass.html
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G20 law gave cops 'wartime' power, resulted in mass rights violation: ombudsman
Keith Leslie, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – Tue, 7 Dec 7:27 PM EST
* Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin releases his special G20 report into the province's so-called "fence law" at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Tuesday December 7, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn (Photo)
TORONTO - Martial law ruled Toronto during the G20 summit after Ontario secretly gave police wartime powers, resulting in a mass violation of civil rights unprecedented in Canada, the provincial watchdog said Tuesday.
The deliberate misinformation surrounding a revamped Second World War regulation led people to wrongly believe police had the power to demand identification and detain anyone coming within five metres of the G20 security fence.
The law, in fact, applied only to people entering the zone.
Still, it should have been dubbed the five-kilometre rule given police were stopping and searching people far from the fences in the downtown core, ombudsman Andre Marin said in releasing the results of his probe into the controversial law.
The more than 1,000 arrests and illegal detention of hundreds, or even thousands, of others during the June summit was a "mass violation of civil rights," said Marin.
"For the citizens of Toronto, the days up to and including the weekend of the G20 will live in infamy as a time period where martial law set in the city of Toronto, leading to the most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history."
Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau went to Parliament to hold a debate before enacting the War Measures Act in the early 1970s, but Ontario went out of its way to keep the new law on police powers quiet, said Marin.
"The government planned and premeditated not to communicate what authority it was relying on to execute searches and arbitrarily detain citizens, and that in my view is problematic," he said.
It was a "likely illegal regulation" that was used to give police "extravagant" powers, Marin added. Police, he added, compounded matters with deliberate miscommunication about the reach of their new powers.
"Apart from insiders in the government of Ontario, only members of the Toronto Police Service knew that the rules of the game had changed, and they were the ones holding the 'go directly to jail' cards," he wrote in his report, "Caught in the Act."
"Many of those stopped and questioned by police under the Public Works Protection Act were involved in demonstrations, but many others were simply Torontonians going about the activities of their daily lives."
The 1939 act, designed to protect public buildings during war, was used "to intimidate and arrest people who had done no harm."
"It's a civil rights land mine from World War Two," Marin said of the act used to give police extra powers.
"There was a cascade effect of state mischief that resulted in hundreds of detentions."
Police spokesman Mark Pugash said original legal advice given Toronto police on the law supported the five-metre rule.
"Their advice was this applied to five metres outside the fence," Pugash said Tuesday. "It was on the basis of that legal opinion that we trained our people."
Premier Dalton McGuinty refused to comment Tuesday, saying he hadn't read Marin's report, but Community Safety Minister Jim Bradley admitted the government should have done a better job of communicating the changes to the law.
"It is clear to me that we should have communicated the regulation much more directly, clearly and promptly," said Bradley.
Bradley refused to concede the Liberals had acted in secret and also declined to offer an apology for abusing people's civil rights.
Marin laughed at the government's admission that it could have done a better job communicating the changes in the law.
"Darn right you could have done better," he said.
"There was a premeditated, conscious decision not to announce the existence of the regulation or the reviving of this wartime act, this relic. The government essentially poked a hibernating bear, woke it up, and they didn't want the public to know."
Marin said he was "bewildered" when Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair referred to a five-metre rule, which did not exist. Blair refused to co-operate with the ombudsman's investigation and also declined to have his officers answer Marin's questions.
Pugash said that on the day before the G20 was to begin, police got a new legal opinion stating that the rule applied to inside the fence.
"The first thing (Blair) did was make sure frontline people had that information," he said, noting the only arrests made under the law came before the second legal opinion.
Pugash said that "in a perfect world" efforts would have been made to inform the public of the change in the rule, but officials felt it was more important to make sure frontline officers got the information.
"At that point on the Friday things were heating up, there was a lot of urgent activity for the police," Pugash said.
The original regulation was passed after Canada declared war on Germany. Its use during the G20 "was of dubious legality and no utility," Marin wrote.
"It was opportunistic and inappropriate to use a war measure that allows extravagant police authority to arrest and search people in the name of public works," he wrote.
"Here, in 2010, is the province of Ontario conferring wartime powers on police officers in peacetime."
The decision by the Liberal cabinet should not have been kept shrouded in secrecy, added Marin.
The ombudsman also blasted the Ministry of Community Safety for failing to ensure that police were adequately trained on the regulation, which he said contributed to the "chaos and confusion" on city streets during the summit.
"It may have been the best kept secret in Ontario's legislative history," said Marin. "By changing the rules of the game without real notice, (it) acted as a trap for the responsible."
Marin launched a 90-day probe after getting 167 complaints about the law.
The New Democrats said Marin's investigation was limited in scope and there should be a full public inquiry.
However, the Opposition said there was no need for an inquiry if McGuinty would answer all the questions about the law and fire former Community Safety Minister Rick Bartolucci.
"We actually had a premier of the province of Ontario and a minister of the Crown that brought forward an illegal and unconstitutional law," said Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak.
"They didn't have the guts to put it out in public and say why they thought it was necessary and conspired to keep it buried away from the public for weeks."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/g20-law-gave-cops-wartime-power-resulted-mass.html
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