[Vision2020] Happy 10th

[Dave]

This is the tenth anniversary of when I found out for sure that the 
first amendment of the Constitution was dead.  i.e. when the government 
used toxic chemical and percussive weapons on me for exercising my 
rights of free speech and to assemble.

This picture is a clip of stock footage used by Democracy Now! this 
morning which I highly recommend that people see.  Actually people 
really need to see and understand the very good Greg Palast segment that 
precedes the WTO one to understand why we were there.

Anyway, I am in the bottom left of this shot, and I am about to witness 
the officer (with the arrow conveniently pointed at him) shoot a woman 
(in yellow) at point blank range with a percussive grenade launcher.  
This is a crowd control weapon which is "supposed" to be fired over 
peoples heads.

Later, after we were brutally forced off of OUR street (I got peppered 
by rubber bullets, which I tell you hurt like the dickens! They left 
welts that lasted for weeks.), I heard a cry for help, someone needed 
water.  Turns out it was a friend of mine from Moscow, and she was 
providing assistance to the same woman.  The victim was fairly dazed and 
probably had a concussion, we later turned her over to a first aid 
patrol.  I hope to someday re-meet this woman, she would be easy to 
recognize with a star shaped scar on her forehead and all.

Oh yeah, and I guess it is also now illegal to enter Canada if you MIGHT 
be going to say anything bad about the Olympics (first segment).

Dave


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