{"id":13324,"date":"2010-06-29T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13324"},"modified":"2010-06-29T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:59:08","slug":"g20-security-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/29\/g20-security-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 Security Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LsnGpIRQzkU<\/p>\n<p><em>An eyewitness account of how the police allowed the Black Bloc to rampage through the downtown core for one and a half hours before launching attacks with pepper spray and batons on legally assembled demonstrators<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/829902--mcquaig-police-bankers-exempt-from-austerity\" target=\"_blank\">Linda McQuaig<\/a> of the Toronto <em>Star, <\/em>here are the security costs for G20 conferences in Toronto, London and Pittsburgh, and it reveals a breathtaking disparity, particularly when you consider the outcome:<\/p>\n<p>Toronto, June 2010 &#8212; $930 million<\/p>\n<p>London, April 2009 &#8212; $28 million<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh, September 2009 &#8212; $12 million<\/p>\n<p>Arrests in Toronto: 900, the largest mass arrest in Canadian history &#8212; that&#8217;s almost double, by the way, the total number of arrests during the October Crisis of 1970.\u00a0 Among those arrested or detained in Toronto: journalists, by-standers, people waiting for a bus, as well as hundreds of peaceful demonstrators exercising their constitutional right of free assembly.<\/p>\n<p>And yet the police stood by while Black Bloc vandals smashed windows and set curiously abandoned police vehicles ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Harper&#8217;s initiative, G20 countries are committed to cutting deficits in half by 2013, robbing our economies of much needed stimulus.\u00a0 This will mean cuts to education, health care, and unemployment insurance.\u00a0 Think how much the billion dollars spent on self-evidently bad security is needed now.\u00a0 We can afford Harper&#8217;s debutante ball, but apparently not the maintenance of social services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canadians Demanding a Public Inquiry into Toronto G20&#8221; Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=135629036463012&amp;v=wall%29\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LsnGpIRQzkU An eyewitness account of how the police allowed the Black Bloc to rampage through the downtown core for one and a half hours before launching attacks with pepper spray and batons on legally assembled demonstrators According to Linda McQuaig of the Toronto Star, here are the security costs for G20 conferences in Toronto, London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,33,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-current-events","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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