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ISU’s G20 Public Info Promised Our Rights Would be Respected
By Gary Morton, July 4th,
2010 at CitizensontheWeb.ca
Here is some information
published on the ISU’s web site, followed by my commentary.
The ISU
says
The ISU is
a joint forces team comprised of security experts collaborating together to
ensure the safety of the Heads of State, the community and minimize to the
fullest extent possible, the potential impact of police security operations.
The G20 Integrated Security
Unit remains committed to ensuring that Charter guaranteed rights and freedoms
are upheld, while ensuring that police officers carry out their sworn duties.
Charter states: Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms
*freedom of conscience and religion;
*freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the
press and other media of communication;
*freedom of peaceful assembly; and freedom of association.
The ISU
also encourages groups who are planning to voice their opinions at the
Summit
to reach out to the Community Relations Group in order to work with the police
in planning their protests within the legal framework. The Community Relations
Group (CRG) can be reached at 1-888-446-4047 or by e-mail at
crg-grc@g8-g20isu.ca.
Commentary,
Clearly our basic rights
under the Charter weren’t respected.
Various articles and
video I link to at citizensontheweb.ca and that are posted at You Tube and
medocoop.ca as well as in mainstream media show severe abuse.
The structure of the ISU
from the beginning was (still is) a formula for TROUBLE. The reason being the
RCMP and its security experts were in place at the helm. They are the group most
likely to decide on a strategy to have police agents dressed as Black Bloc at
the protest, and the group most likely to attempt a risky strategy allowing the
Black protesters to break free, attack decoy police cars and then escape to
damage the city. Video, especially from the air, shows that riot lines often
three deep could have contained the main march and all marches and guided them
to their end.
So we have a body
composed of two federal level police forces (RCMP in Command, along with
Canadian Forces.) Ontario Provincial Police and Toronto Police are also in the
ISU. This means that first at the federal level Stephen Harper and his
government were most responsible in overseeing the force and making sure Charter
Rights and the right to Peaceful Protest and Assembly were respected. At the
provincial level Dalton McGuinty and his cabinet were responsible and should
have made sure the rights of people in downtown
Toronto
remained respected and that no risky or exotic intelligence plans were put in
place. At the municipal level, Mayor David Miller and city council should have
vetted all police plans for the downtown as this is their city.
Instead we ended up with
a situation where all levels of government failed to show leadership and left
the city at the mercy of RCMP INTELLIGENCE.
And they ordered
Harassment and
surveillance of protest organizers and group members in their own homes right
from the start.
Mass search of all
people found out on the street at protest time.
Police attacks on main
marches, pre planned rallies, and peaceful protests like the one at the jail
The harassment, snatch
and arrest, often of ordinary people and non violent protesters out on the
street
Thus there was no
freedom of assembly, association or freedom of the press. Media members
(professional and citizen) were just as likely as anyone else to be searched,
grabbed, beaten or detained in mass arrests.
Since we now are certain
that this occurred, and we have hundreds of people that were detained without
charge along with thousands that were searched illegally, it is the responsibly
of all three levels of government to initiate a public inquiry with the release
of police video to learn.
Why this happened
Who was responsible
And were politicians
from the top down guilty of abdicating responsibly or ordering violations of
Civil Liberties.
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