Hacklab nerd caught in G20 security sweep

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Phillip Mills <phillip.mills1-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 2010-06-25, at 6:38 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
>
>> Those regulations were passed back in 1990, they're called the Public
>> Works Protection Act.
>
> And this was never their intent.

Oh, of course, they never _intend_ to use them this way... ;)

>> It would have been political suicide for him to refuse the
>> police.
>
> I think the next election would be a good time to make sure he understands that it was political suicide to agree with them. > I'm most irate that this was done -- like the invocation of the War Measures Act -- by a government that dares to label itself  > "Liberal".  Liberal isn't supposed to mean siding with cops to suspend civil liberties.

I don't know, Trudeau was a Liberal, and that was 34 years ago now.
When have the Liberals _not_ sided with the cops?

I guess to me the point is we shouldn't have to unelect a government
every time they mess up and allow the police to step all over our
civil liberties. People need to start _resisting_ the police directly,
and we need a police force that is 100% run by civilians. The police
cannot be allowed to govern themselves any longer, otherwise they will
continue to 'server and protect' only their cronies.

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