…as I am Torontoist’s official accredited journalist (well, one of two, but I do the writing bits) covering the G20 summit here in Toronto (motto: “When We Have An Economic Summit, We Have Earthquakes And Tornadoes Just To Make The Fucking Point”). Needless to say, this is totally awesome and I hope I get the opportunity to do Jello shots with Paul Krugman, but it also means I am basically not here for the next four days.
So head over to Torontoist and follow along with all the world summit skinny and, presumably, the eventual massive riots.
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Congratulations on the assignment, man. Give ’em hell!
Have a good time. Remember, only throw Molotov Cocktails when you’re sure the police are only carring batons.
Ask Krugman how it feels to be the Cassandra of Western Civilization.
See if you can get a country–any country–to adopt Rex TMWD as the ideal toward which they should aspire.
Veto:
G8 Summit
G20 Summit
Stephen Harper
Add:
Housing
Transit
3:10 to Yuma (2008)
Good luck, and watch out for protesters throwing shit.
Tell Krugmann that he has to stop threatening Germany with his beard. We got better beards here than his. :p
A man with five cans of gas and an array of weapons in his car was arrested Thursday near the G-20 site in Toronto, security officials said.
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Anything you care to admit to, Mr God King?
Just make sure you keep your papers on you at all times, citizen.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/828367–g20-law-gives-police-sweeping-powers-to-arrest-people?bn=1
>>Good luck, and watch out for protesters throwing shit.
There is no truth to the allegations that anarchists have ever thrown shit or urine at such summits.
We do throw bricks though.
Are you allowed behind the wall? What kind of massive pain in the ass is that?
Y’know, I had no particular problem with the G20, a large and expensive but so far as I could tell relatively well-intentioned and mostly harmless summit. At least, not until we started into the ‘special arrest powers’ and suchlike.
I suspect that the hugely heightened security will be a galvanizing factor in this matter; even those who had no intention of protesting to begin with may begin to consider doing so because they can be arrested for simply walking too close to a security checkpoint. Is it just me, or is this getting out of hand?
The security scheme is justified as Burlesconi’s position and personal guard of Fishspeakers transfer to whoever kills him.
I wonder how many of the rowdier protesters will be found to be wearing the Toronto PD’s footwear.
When the G20 was in PGH last year, it was weird just walking around and taking pictures of the scenery. You should take efforts to take pictures of some of the installed fortifications (chain link walls, etc) and then take a post-G20 picture from the exact same spot.