Whoa! A close look at the Paramilitary at the G-20-slideshow (In case you missed some)

[Are_grits_groceries]

"Our Man at the G20" Exclusive Slideshow: The Paramilitary View

http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2009/10/bagnewsnotes-our-man-at-the-g20-exclusive-slideshow-the-paramilitary-view.html

Reading about it and seeing bits and pieces was bad enough. These pictures give a closer look at the forces used there.

[baldguy]

1. Jodhpurs?

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. Close enough.

Did you see that muzzle on that dog? What? He has steel teeth?

All they needed was a commander with a monocle and a riding whip.

[baldguy]

6. Evil Overlord Supply must have had a sale.

[leveymg]

8. This guy?

Fearless Leader

[Are_grits_groceries]

9. Close enough nt

[vadawg]

3. wow your right its just like the nazis, how many poor protesters were killed,

how many now languish in concentration camps, we must take up arms to overthrow these nazis and the government they serve... over dramatize much....

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. I think this was a little much

for the G-20 protests. Who were they and what government entity did they represent?

And no, I don't trust them one damn bit. Never have. Never will.

Maybe you forgot the response at the RNC convention.

Overlook and dismiss much?

[Zix]

7. Oooooh, I see what you did there.

You tried to project a range of statements onto the OP so that it looked like it was saying something it wasn't. Probably dim-witted people who don't want to think will react to the emotional overtones of your projections rather than the content of OP. Nice!

[clear eye]

4. According to a comment by a news photographer present, it was worse than

what you can see in the slides.

They shot rubber bullets, stun-grenades and teargas cannisters for most of the day and well into the night, peppper sprayed people en-masse, drove around the city in armoured personnel carriers and did the 'Zulu-warrior' shield thumping thing. When people refused to move they stabbed them in the ribs with staves.

Passers by were assaulted along with demonstrators who offered up zero resistance either before or after. During the day a bunch of Black Bloc chumps turned up and trashed a Gap store. They were comprehensively told to piss off by the protesters who bundled them away.

Typically however, this one act of petty vandalism became the orthodox thumbnail 'history' of the event.

The media coverage was a complete travesty, whipping up paranoia beforehand (saying the protesters would turn up with weapons) and afterwards, downplaying an act of banana republic-style Police brutality on huge numbers of peaceful and diverse protesters. This has become the standard operating procedure of mainstream coverage of these summit protests.

On a personal note, the rumour is the teargas used in Seattle was obtained from the military and wasn't designed for use in urban areas as it was too potent. I can't confirm this but I do know that since covering that protest (without a gasmask) my breathing has never been the same, and a peak flow test from the doc says I've now got about 85 percent lung function, so I've got a smokers lungs, but without the enjoyment...

When police similarly attacked the crowd unprovoked at the 1968 Presidential Convention, the NYT called it a "police riot", and other papers picked up that frame. It's even more chilling than the event (which is disturbing enough) that in these times there is no critical MSM coverage. Nor is anyone debating how U.S. military can, simply by being integrated into "multi-agency response teams", not be prohibited by Posse Comitatus from being deployed here.