Why all conservative voters should be ashamed

This, apparently, is what THEY voted for:

Pure, unadulterated human rights abusage. Riot thugs charged a peaceful protest this afternoon at the corner of Queen and Spadina in Toronto (note Steve’s Music Store in the backdrop.) There is no excuse for what they did. All the protesters did was sing “O Canada”, with emphasis on the words “We stand on guard for thee”.

Apparently, they are the only ones who did.

The G-20, as Jesse Rosenfeld astutely points out in the UK Guardian, is an expansion of the failed G-8 in the aftermath of the global capitalist economic collapse. It was all about changing nothing, except maybe for the worse. It’s all about capitalist globalization over and above all human rights, dignity and national sovereignty. (Harpo said so himself.)

Rosenfeld, incidentally, was singled out by riot thugs and beaten and held incommunicado for over 24 hours for that. He was one of many journalists to suffer a “detention” for covering the summit–and its many detractors. (There were more detractors than boosters for the G-20 bullshit. Doesn’t that tell anyone anything?) Another Jesse, The Real News’s Freeston, was beaten up, and two photographers for the arch-conservative National Post were jailed!

Gee, it’s as if the “authorities” didn’t want the media reporting an uncontrolled, unscripted version of the story, eh?

Well, of course they didn’t. That would have been giving too much freedom of speech to the dissenters. And as my friend Sol points out, dissent is now illegal. You can’t even march up to the “security fence” to state your viewpoint without being hassled for a fucking ID, for fuck’s sake. And this draconian law was passed in secret!

Meanwhile, the going meme in the compliant whore media is that “peaceful protests turned violent”. Bull-fucking-SHIT they did! If the media were fully honest, they would come right out and say “Peaceful protests were attacked by fully-armed riot police in an effort to quash all dissent”, because that’s just what happened! Again, my friend Sol is your go-to guy for what’s wrong with this meme.

And of course, this meme is part of a larger strategy: Make all dissenters out to be criminals. Marginalize them all. And if they don’t make violence themselves, throw in a few provocateurs and let THEM provide all the necessary pretexts.

There’s just one problem with this: Nimble citizen journalists are now blogging. And they can spot the discrepancies with ease. Case in point: These two posts by Dammit Janet. Interesting how provocs wear the same shoes as the cops, no? And even more interesting how the cars deliberately left out to be torched were NOT working Toronto cop cars. (Wrong numbers. Also, one was missing its plates. Hmmm.)

The major media are doing a very half-assed job. Not surprising; their job is to prop up the existing order, not undermine it with too many pesky, incriminating facts. A pity it’s all crumbling around them, and the questions are too many, too pointed and too hard to be “answered” with facile lies anymore. The fascism is naked now, and so’s the emperor.

The only remaining question is, what are WE going to do about it?

PS: Here is one place to start.