Adam's Ideas

This stuff makes me sick. The USA continues to disappoint me in how it deals with dissenting views to those of the elite. Good thing Obama brought chan- wait a second.

Here the police use an arrested protester as a trophy in a photo-op:

The moral of the story: never go to Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile, here in Canada we have police officers dipping into victims’ cash.

It’s a good thing I forgot I had this blog during the London G20 get-together because that would’ve kept me busy blogging too.

This post exists because I saw the following video from the G20 gathering in Pittsburgh. It shows an unmarked vehicle take somebody off the streets and shoved into a car without any notice as to why the individual was kidnapped by people in military uniform – not police.

New-ish tactics used by the police force are a great way to use force to contain people without leaving evidence of what they did.

From the Guardian’s article on the use of the sonic cannon:

Sonic weapons or long-range acoustic devices have been used by the US military overseas, notably against Somali pirates and Iraqi insurgents.

But US security forces turned the piercing sound on their own citizens yesterday to widespread outrage. Pittsburgh officials told the New York Times that it was the first time “sound cannon” had been used publicly.

[Warning: the video below contains very loud audio from the start]

BoingBoing has even more on the sound cannon:

Click here to see more footage from the BBC on police intervention and peaceful protesting.

Here’s some excellent footage of a horrible event when Michael Bryant, the formally-promising politician, killed Darcy Allen Sheppard. Sheppard was a bike courier who the media has portrayed as a troubled man with no real grounds for those accusations.

So one evening Bryant and Sheppard got in a scuffle and Bryant seems to have decided (after drinking teat evening) to use his car has a deadly weapon and drag the cyclist along Bloor street. Bryant is such a good driver that he was able to drive into the opposing lane while Sheppard was dangling on the side of Bryant’s vehicle and ram Sheppard into a couple trees and a mailbox thus fatally wounding Sheppard.

This is what happened moments before the accused Michael Bryant killed a man.

How long do you think it’ll be before Bryant’s press team shows up and posts a comment defending him?

Watch as this cop nearly gets doored:

Surprisingly, (or on par with Toronto’s attitude towards drivers) the police officer says nothing to the driver who nearly assaulted an officer of the law.

I’m a big fan of the Walrus so it’s pretty neat to see that they are promoting themselves using trailers. Granted, the first tailer (below) is for the worst article I have ever read in the magazine. I was looking forward to a really great article about the Plains of Abraham and instead got crappy fiction.

This graph form the BBC shows what the American national debt could have been if Bush didn’t screw everything up.