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That's the way I understand the situation as well - which is why the story doesn't seem to jive.  If the police had infiltrated this group in the months prior to G20, they had all sorts of online postings regarding Black Bloc tactics, and they had the time and wherewithal to plan and conduct...

My understanding (acknowledging that I don't have all the facts) is that the police had infiltrated this particular group for months prior to the arrests made during a (presumably deliberate) early morning raid on the U of T campus.  Would that make a difference?

Fair enough.  We'll see how the story develops...

So there's nothing unusual about laying charges against only 2% of the people you actually detain?

November 4, 2010 "90 officers facing disciplinary action for hiding their identity at G20" http://www.thestar.com/news/torontog20summit/article/885563--90-officers-facing-disciplinary-action-for-hiding-their-identity-at-g20 From that article: So much for freedom from arbitrary arrest...

What's the point of fighting for anything if we become the "wrong" that we struggle against?

It's called <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem>argumentum ad hominem.</a>  If an argument truly makes sense, than it does so regardless the person putting it forth.  An attempt to show the invalidity of a premise by discrediting the speaker rather than the idea is a logical fallacy.

This is irrelevant. An argument's cogency has nothing to do with the person espousing it.

Omar Khadr belongs to an Al Qaeda family that, as far as I can tell, only likes Canada when it is time to take advantage of our health care after they've been injured while waging war in support of establishing a global Islamic caliphate.  It's parisitic. But sentencing him to 40 years in...

I'm not surprised that there are so many people claiming to have been wrongfully arrested.  It seems as though cop cars were torched and windows smashed by only a few dozen people at most.  How is it that well over 1000 found themselves detained?

I was there.  My LAV CASEVACed Bulletmagnet after he was hit by the same shrap that got Mellish and Cushley.  It was a Taliban Spig 9, not friendly fire. Jack Harris is a tool.

Protecting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is more important than women's shelters, breakfast clubs, and most other things the government could be spending money on. We have some common ground, then. I don't see what else in your post is relevant to the discussion though.  If there are...

We will be reassured that Canada is not a police state. There are widespread allegations of police misconduct.  While I admit that some of these allegations come from criminals attempting to distort the facts to promote their fringe group agenda, there are many reasonable, moderate, regular...

A little bit of Alternative Media to fuel the fire... http://vimeo.com/13097041 I maintain my position that there needs to be a public inquiry and that people need to be held accountable.

Fair enough.  I really didn't intend to sidetrack this discussion on the difference between the police and the military. The purpose of that comment was to show that I'm usually pretty sympathetic to the police.  Even if you were to remove that particular sentence from my post, my argument...

You should be embarrassed to put up that MP badge as your avatar, and then go on posting these kinds of inflammatory and discriminatory comments.

Maybe "loophole" wasn't the right word, but you got the jist of my argument.  With all the allegations of arbitrary arrests the day before and with the confusion over what the police were legally allowed to do, there was very little choice for people but to give consent. Believe me when I say...

I've been posting on this forum since 2002.  That's eight years of posting history you can go through and judge for yourself whether I'm a reasonable guy, or just some punk with an anti-authority agenda.  Besides that, all I can do is tell it like I saw it. I think it's quite possible that the...

Here's the thing though: I personally saw at least a half dozen people searched and arrested well outside of the security zone, and nowhere near any unruly protest. To be fair, I have strong suspicions that at least one or two of those people were actually criminals who had been engaging in...

WTF? There must be a better way to get this guy some boots...