2010 Olympic Rant #37 Vancouver to become Police state · 9.10.09 by colin newell
Fast forward to the future: Night sticks rain down on Olympic protesters as steel toe booted security forces kick the crap out of the elderly, pregnant women and anyone who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A sidewalk is drenched with blood. The air is filled with the cries of anguish and reeks with the smell of frightened humanity and tear gas.
Beijing? Tehran? Nope.
Vancouver during the first few days of the 2010 Olympics. Protesters wage a hide and seek battle of wits against largely out-numbered security forces – who are as ill equipped for this chaos as the mall cops they truly are…
Back to the present:
A proposed B.C. law would allow municipal officials to enter homes to seize unauthorized and possibly anti-Olympic signs on short notice, civil libertarians say.
Violators could be fined up to $10,000 a day and jailed up to six months, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association said Friday.
I could fill this page right now with bad things that I could do in society that would yield a lower fine and less jail time. Heck, I am sure I could accidentally harm or maim someone and get less jail time than that. Touch wood: Have never harmed anyone nor have I ever had any trouble with the law.
And yet here in 2009, protesters, culture jam experts, rabble, writers, conscience driven civilians and the like can be fined or jailed for speaking out against this rotten IOC establishment and their disgusting VANOC ilk.
Currently these same folks are being harassed and intimidated by the good folks at the Integrated Security Unit.
1 year ago when I started Anti-2010 blogging in earnest, I would have…
-Not taken myself very seriously
-Would not actually consider protesting the 2010 Olympics in person or in the street
-Was not really worried about my rights or the rights of others being trampled on
That has changed. And I think it has changed for a lot of folks. I think the average British Columbian is sick and tired of the concept of the Olympics. I truly believe we will never host another Olympics again (in B.C. and maybe in Canada in my life time.)
I am pretty darn sure that the 2010 Olympics are not going to come off without riots, without mass arrests, without loss of life.
And the blood with be on the hands of Gordon Campbell and his Liberals, as well as on Jacque Rogge and that doofus John Furlong of VANOC.
If you thought the Stanley Cup riots of 1994 were some kind of spectacle, you had better strap yourself in for the civil disruption of the Century.
My heart goes out to the residents of Vancouver – because within 5 months their city is never going to be the same again.
2010 Olympic Rant #35 silver spoons for Jacque Rogge Two strikes into a red flag moment - troubles with twitter
The Olympics are self destructive. With the threat of global warming we cannot afford such flagrant displays of excess and overconsumption. The best way to avoid 300,000 tons of emissions is for people to simply stay at home.
http://selfdestructivebastards.blogspot.com/2009/10/olympics-are-self-destructive.html
— Canada Guy Oct 21, 08:16 am #