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.