All Too Familiar Scenes Means it's Time to Cancel the G-20

At the G-20 in Pittsburgh, in 2009; a wall of riot police attacked and cornered students on the stairs. Citizens were kidnapped, arrested and beaten, when they tried to protest against the bailing out of the corporate sector, while failing to address unemployment.

Journalists were also targeted and beaten.

Police Provocateurs were used to incite violence, giving reason for further brutality.

At the G-20 in London England, police brutality shocked citizens.

Police Provocateurs were used to incite.

One man was killed and others beaten, arrested and kidnapped. Journalists were targeted.

At the G-20 in Toronto, police brutality shocked citizens.

Police Provocateurs were used to incite.

Journalists were targeted beaten and arrested.

There is a pattern here. A message.

A committee is currently investigating complaints, but their scope is limited. We need a full public inquiry.

Only a full public inquiry will get to the bottom of the overwhelming evidence of civil rights abuses at the G20 meeting in Toronto, a New Democratic MP said Monday. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) told a news conference that to do otherwise is to accept Canada is becoming a police state where the toe of a cop’s boot or punch in the gut is the rule of law.

Davies said not only has it been proven that police falsified evidence to justify widespread arrests – the largest in Canadian history – they also manufactured evidence, including so-called weapons seized from completely separate incidents. “What we need is a full public inquiry, we need a judicial inquiry, we need an independent inquiry, we need an inquiry with full powers to hear sworn evidence, subpoena witnesses and compel the production of all relevant documents,” he said.

“If not, one of the most shameful and largest mass violations of Canadians’ rights by police and the state in Canadian history will go totally unredressed. We live in a democratic state. We do not live in a police state. We live in a country that is supposed to be governed by the rules of law, not the rule of force.”

I think it's time to put an end to these summits, because they appear to be a test for martial law, around the globe.

But if you want some bragging rights, there was a journalist being interviewed, who had covered all three of the above G-20s, and stated emphatically that Toronto was the worst he'd ever seen.

Go Canada.