Enough already!

[deathpixie]

Apparently there's a protest happening at police headquarters at 5:30 and we've been told to be out of our building by 4:30. While I don't exactly mind the early leave time, I was planning to swim tonight. Only the YMCA is near the police station and for my own safety I've been told to avoid it.

Stupid anarchists. Go home to mommy and daddy already.

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[ferox.livejournal.com]

Pretty much everyone has already said it but: I'm really quite angry over both sides of this story. On the one hand, you have police being overly handy with the sending people into lock up. On the other hand, you have a whole lot of masked, rich white kids breaking shit and forcing the police into making statements that are affecting the people who sit on the third foot, the peaceful protesters, who want their voice heard but are being jailed because those other protesters did it wrong.

I was talking last night with a friend who put it quite oddly-well; "I think ideas like chat roulette have shown us that when people get the chance to do something "wrong" without identification or reprimand, they're going to do it. They've turned the G20 into their own game of chat roulette but with masks and broken windows instead of strategic crops and flashing."

I also think it's helpful to separate. I do not put "protesters" into the same category as "anarchists" into the same as "vandals". In fact, I feel very few of the vandals ARE protestors, merely opportunists.