Living In A Fascist State
That's what righteous protesters at the G20 summit consider Canada to resemble; a fascist state. They have the guaranteed freedom of peaceful assembly and protest. They live in a liberal democratic country. Their education compares with among the finest in the world. This is a vital observation, since many of the peaceful demonstrators - the protesters who come out in sympathy with the under-developed world, and the poor who live anywhere, including within this country - are often represented by the offspring of the comfortable middle-class.
This is a country where social welfare and health-related spending takes a huge whack out of government coffers. Tax funded, of course. To benefit the entire society. And it does, by and large, although private enterprises of a philanthropic and humanistic nature also do their best to assist in looking to the welfare of the indigent, the ill, the drug-and-alcohol addicted; those who live on the streets. For it seems that every country has its unfortunates, and it is incumbent upon the government and the citizens of every country to aid those needing it.
It is in countries like Canada that true regret exists that not all individuals are capable or willing or responsible to look after their own fortunes. No one in this country will starve, however, and there are accommodations, however raw, available to look after peoples' basic needs. Not, unfortunately, other needs, those which attenuate their lifespans and their health conditions. This is where personal responsibility enters the picture.
This is not a police state. The little lefty-absorbed, human rights-supporting university students who express outrage that the police have bundled those whose behaviour is threatening and dangerous to others into brief incarceration, and who speak of the bilge they were served passing as food, and who indignantly declare this to be a fascist state are deluding themselves, but not others. They are play-acting at being mature, responsible adults.
The mature, responsible adults are those who live in the neighbourhood that has been trashed. Who have reason to feel put upon and indignant, and who declare it their belief that these protesters should be put where they belong, behind bars. We should, of course, draw a line between the legitimate protesters, those who take grave affront at the very idea that a group of world leaders, some of them autocratic, some tyrannical, some twisted by ideology or by fundamental theism, should control the lives of ordinary people.
Often enough it is for the ordinary people of the countries involved to decide whether they wish to effect a change, if they can. And it does rankle to see some of the countries which in fact pose a real threat to the world order, assembled in Toronto, alongside some of the more impeccably respectable world leaders - although even within that group there are some questionable candidates for an insane asylum at worst, prison at best.
Assemble, and protest if you will, if it makes you feel better, if it relieves you of irritation, of the feeling of helplessness, of disregard for authority. Anarchic intent of a peaceful variety can be expressed legitimately. But here's the rub; those peaceful protesters who feel they have a legitimate grievance and want to have their voices heard, must realize their presence has been infiltrated by violent thugs. With criminal intent to violet action.
Who rampaged through the streets of Toronto, and continue to do so. They have few scruples, as is evidenced by their vicious beating of a female security guard in front of a bank they trashed. They represent sewer rats, scrambling out of the sewage grates, and in fact, they did just that. They also hid behind bushes, to spring out at opportune times to do their thing. And their thing is to sow chaos, simply because it is so invigorating, at such times of great social tension, to confront and to compromise others' safety.
Because we live in a free society, thugs can come out of the woodwork, or out from under their usual damp, rocky places to pose as ordinary citizens, then swiftly alter their clothing to black complete with face masks; posture, threaten, provoke, smash, and run for the safety of anonymity back into plain clothing, counting on their activities not being detected and apprehended in a timely manner. A pair of Summits costing the nation a billion dollars?
Well, here's the reason for all that elaborate security training, overtime, hotel booking, and protective fencing to ensure that groups from PETA, known for their enthusiastic violence, and violence-prone home-grown anarchists, and the sinister Black Block brigade don't create an untenable chaos. Which they most certainly set out to do. And managed, despite all the combined security, to give Toronto residents a show of what their normally decent city is not comprised of.
Tossing firebombs at police vehicles, then happily circling the result, with the sightseers eager to snap as many photos of civic 'unrest' and 'disobedience' as they possibly can. People prone to celebrating the lower animal within, burnishing their credentials as courageous provocateurs, intent on sticking it to The Man, certified psychopaths, happy at this opportunity to wreak havoc and thumbing their nose at security, had an absolute ball. Which isn't quite yet concluded.
"We're here and we're here to fight. Let's take back our streets!" These aren't the grandmotherly activists, the folksy concerned, the people concerned about welfare rates and those with disabilities, the animal rights seal hunt protesters. And oh yes, the anti-Israel groups who will not let any occasion slip by whatever the protest, to haul out their incendiary Jew-bating signs just to let the world know they haven't gone away.
"We're here because we want to confront the security apparatus, we want to confront the borders that we face." "The passion for freedom is stronger than all prison walls." Fatuous, egregiously-stupid statements that are utterly meaningless in a free society, guaranteeing ingrates their rights to protest whatever they wish, but not in whatever manner they wish to do so. There are those among the protesters who will eventually grow up; this, part of their growing pains.
There are others whose psychotic impulses to upturn societal norms and agitate violently for their own juvenile satisfactions who will never represent anything but a black rim of decay and monumental personal failure to outlive adolescent social aggression. Posturing, pustulent, craven, and sadly miserable relics of days when troglodytes roamed the Earth.
This is a country where social welfare and health-related spending takes a huge whack out of government coffers. Tax funded, of course. To benefit the entire society. And it does, by and large, although private enterprises of a philanthropic and humanistic nature also do their best to assist in looking to the welfare of the indigent, the ill, the drug-and-alcohol addicted; those who live on the streets. For it seems that every country has its unfortunates, and it is incumbent upon the government and the citizens of every country to aid those needing it.
It is in countries like Canada that true regret exists that not all individuals are capable or willing or responsible to look after their own fortunes. No one in this country will starve, however, and there are accommodations, however raw, available to look after peoples' basic needs. Not, unfortunately, other needs, those which attenuate their lifespans and their health conditions. This is where personal responsibility enters the picture.
This is not a police state. The little lefty-absorbed, human rights-supporting university students who express outrage that the police have bundled those whose behaviour is threatening and dangerous to others into brief incarceration, and who speak of the bilge they were served passing as food, and who indignantly declare this to be a fascist state are deluding themselves, but not others. They are play-acting at being mature, responsible adults.
The mature, responsible adults are those who live in the neighbourhood that has been trashed. Who have reason to feel put upon and indignant, and who declare it their belief that these protesters should be put where they belong, behind bars. We should, of course, draw a line between the legitimate protesters, those who take grave affront at the very idea that a group of world leaders, some of them autocratic, some tyrannical, some twisted by ideology or by fundamental theism, should control the lives of ordinary people.
Often enough it is for the ordinary people of the countries involved to decide whether they wish to effect a change, if they can. And it does rankle to see some of the countries which in fact pose a real threat to the world order, assembled in Toronto, alongside some of the more impeccably respectable world leaders - although even within that group there are some questionable candidates for an insane asylum at worst, prison at best.
Assemble, and protest if you will, if it makes you feel better, if it relieves you of irritation, of the feeling of helplessness, of disregard for authority. Anarchic intent of a peaceful variety can be expressed legitimately. But here's the rub; those peaceful protesters who feel they have a legitimate grievance and want to have their voices heard, must realize their presence has been infiltrated by violent thugs. With criminal intent to violet action.
Who rampaged through the streets of Toronto, and continue to do so. They have few scruples, as is evidenced by their vicious beating of a female security guard in front of a bank they trashed. They represent sewer rats, scrambling out of the sewage grates, and in fact, they did just that. They also hid behind bushes, to spring out at opportune times to do their thing. And their thing is to sow chaos, simply because it is so invigorating, at such times of great social tension, to confront and to compromise others' safety.
Because we live in a free society, thugs can come out of the woodwork, or out from under their usual damp, rocky places to pose as ordinary citizens, then swiftly alter their clothing to black complete with face masks; posture, threaten, provoke, smash, and run for the safety of anonymity back into plain clothing, counting on their activities not being detected and apprehended in a timely manner. A pair of Summits costing the nation a billion dollars?
Well, here's the reason for all that elaborate security training, overtime, hotel booking, and protective fencing to ensure that groups from PETA, known for their enthusiastic violence, and violence-prone home-grown anarchists, and the sinister Black Block brigade don't create an untenable chaos. Which they most certainly set out to do. And managed, despite all the combined security, to give Toronto residents a show of what their normally decent city is not comprised of.
Tossing firebombs at police vehicles, then happily circling the result, with the sightseers eager to snap as many photos of civic 'unrest' and 'disobedience' as they possibly can. People prone to celebrating the lower animal within, burnishing their credentials as courageous provocateurs, intent on sticking it to The Man, certified psychopaths, happy at this opportunity to wreak havoc and thumbing their nose at security, had an absolute ball. Which isn't quite yet concluded.
"We're here and we're here to fight. Let's take back our streets!" These aren't the grandmotherly activists, the folksy concerned, the people concerned about welfare rates and those with disabilities, the animal rights seal hunt protesters. And oh yes, the anti-Israel groups who will not let any occasion slip by whatever the protest, to haul out their incendiary Jew-bating signs just to let the world know they haven't gone away.
"We're here because we want to confront the security apparatus, we want to confront the borders that we face." "The passion for freedom is stronger than all prison walls." Fatuous, egregiously-stupid statements that are utterly meaningless in a free society, guaranteeing ingrates their rights to protest whatever they wish, but not in whatever manner they wish to do so. There are those among the protesters who will eventually grow up; this, part of their growing pains.
There are others whose psychotic impulses to upturn societal norms and agitate violently for their own juvenile satisfactions who will never represent anything but a black rim of decay and monumental personal failure to outlive adolescent social aggression. Posturing, pustulent, craven, and sadly miserable relics of days when troglodytes roamed the Earth.
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