Vancouver 2010 Olympics : Police vs Black Bloc @ BC Place

[UglyFacet]

Hi There! I'm one of those kids in the masks!

Fuck the olympics and smash the state, etc!

Feel free to hurl abuse at me or we maybe we could have an intelligent discussion ... but since this is youtube, that seems unlikely. SO! What will it be?

Am I a "hippy faggot"? Am I a panhandler who needs to work for a living?

Come on, let's trot out the cliches that pass for political opinions with you jokers.

I dare you to say something interesting.

[blackmesa10]

Keep fucking fighting!!!!

[UglyFacet]

Hey wearechange, first of all, respect to the indie media in general.

Secondly, (but more importantly) this "playing in to the cops hands" notion is more typical pacifist garbage that ultimately creates a culture of complicity. I respect peaceful protest and often practice it, but I don't limit myself to it, and I take issue with pimping peaceful protest as the only way to go. Black bloc stunts are very polarizing, but break through the apathy and complicity, regardless of personal politics.

[wearechangevancouver]

@UglyFacet

They killed the rest of the protest weekend.

but

people hate the banks .....i didn't shed a tear when the TD got hit i just wish it had been the Royal.

We tried many times to talk to the Black Bloc before but could never get anyone to discuss the merits of that tactic.

[saskdevil]

These are people that deserved to be punished under canadian law, they are nothing but trouble makers. if they ever get what they want the country will fall apart,

[lever20065]

4:00 why dont you go fuck your mother HAHHAH

[gotmyhedonstrate]

if international bodies that facilitated international cooperation didn't exist (incl. G8/G20, UN, WTO etc.), there would be immeasurably more war, poverty, and corruption worldwide (they allow for peaceful resolution for complex problems and act as a deterrent to rouge states that could threaten the stability of the many regions of the world). also, the standard of living we lucky few enjoy would decline to levels far from peachy (or get so expensive that only the wealthy could afford it)

[smokydave]

ironic to see anarchists getting mushed against someone trying to picket about flouridation

[xXGRAFFITIxREVIEWSXx]

fucking idiots, you guys a fucking jokes... the police should have unloded rubber rounds into you fucking idiots, that would have been good entertainment...

[MadManApothecary]

Idiots dressed in all black accomplish nothing nowadays except for giving the media something to justify the police action taken on EVERYONE. The sooner everyone drops this black bloc crap and quits thinking every cop in the city is looking for the specificly the better. Take a little pain for the human race, unmask yourself and protest peacefully, if you get gassed accept it with a smile and sit, let the media film that and then maybe other will realize they aren't living in Kansas anymore.

[happyjk]

I think the police should be given where credit is due. Who wants these nonsense people in their city. No one needs this type of protesting. Or would you prefer to allow them to run rampant through the city. Three cheers to the police for having to stand all that noise and shoving for hours on end.  Ughhhh If there were enough jails I would rather see them all behind bars for disturbing the peace.

[MegaWolfgang]

Why don't they call them selves what they are. LEFT WING WAST OF SKIN AGAINST THIS, THAT, AND EVERYTHING ELSE!

[MalteSer001]

long live the BLOC!

[AlexisonfireCanada]

LOL this is pathetic its like a bunch of little kids these protesters/ rioters are the most imature people in Canada let it be known that the real Canadians would not act this way.

[CHARITY3CYBERSTAR]

all i can say is they are lucky this didn't happen in the U.S.A. - they would have been one sorry bunch of rebels without a cause if it had. good on the VPD for handling these losers with such class.

[darthsamurai]

protestors don't have a clue what they're protesting about. For that THEY FAIL!! LOL!

[insightdelight]

What is the point of this? They just form a wall of hate and that is supposed to solve some bigger issue?

[cleanmrbroadway]

See ;Ted Gunderson former FBI chief. SEE Rusty nelson. SEE ; Chip Tatum Former CIA black ops. SEE; Brice Taylor former CIA operative and sex slave.

[WestCoastFlavour]

Half of the people here are panhandlers from Granville Street. They refuse to work and want Goverment handouts constantly. Its a joke. I think these people are fucking jokes and it is an embaressmant to Canada that we have these fucking tools.

[wearechangevancouver]

What else is a fucking joke is people waving a flag and painting their face red, getting drunk and thinking they're "Patriots"

We saw more idiots in red face paint than black ski masks over the 2 weeks. seriously.

The majority of these fake patriots don't even vote or get politically active, meanwhile the country gets carved up by foreign multinationals and the citizens robbed of the country's incredibly rich resources.

The vandelizing anarchists played into the hands of the police & media i.m.o

[jgda9rs]

yeah i agree. quite an embarrassing feat to wreak havoc right on opening day. and we, the taxpayers will have to pay for that repair while most of the anarchists will be in our face begging for change

[WACBlackout]

@jgda9rs

4 broken windows. $2000. The cost of the Olympics 8 billion (and counting).

Your stupidity PRICELESS.

[khimosaubi]

@jgda9rs LOL.. taxpayers pay for everything regardless... Things we dont even agree to.. I have no say about my tax dollars killing innocent Muslims in the middle east or putting countless satalites into space.. You think the government owes you something because you pay "taxes".. This only covers the interest for the loan our country has with international banks.. I say fuck the perpetual income tax.. Should be a flat tax..None of this, more you make , the more they take BS..Carl Marx shit

[grandadmiralthrawn11]

those people who protested these games should of gotten there heads out of there asses. calling this a police state and all. but if ome thing acutaly happened theywuld bitch and complain about there not being enough security. the cops should of enforced them more harshly for disturbing the spirt of the games and the comradary that they represent between countries

[WACBlackout]

@grandadmiralthrawn11 I think the people protesting have their heads out of their asses. All the people waiving a flag and wearing Canada clothing from the Bay cause they tell you to is pretty sad. Where is this patriotism when things matter? Anyone in red mitts going to stand up and help fight the HST? No. Who is the true Patriot. The pesron standing for rights or someone wearing a Chinese made Red sweater drinking Coke cause VANOC told us to. Reminds me of sheep.

[STEVEDIGIBOYtv]

China made more from crap high profit HBC clothing than most the workers in BC and with that slave far east labor they don't have to see the poor they hire. Just like the wars and soldiers serving Canadians the public chooses to ignore that the conservatives support a government that allows Grandad's to marry 7 year olds in Afghanistan and rape their wives legally. As a Canadian more should be protesting that,.

[esstilo]

THANK YOU for speaking out loud

[wearechangevancouver]

The night of the opening ceremonies , THOUSANDS marched and the entire spectrum of human being was represented.

[AGROculture]

haha Olympic protesting failures! They don't care about poverty.

If they truly do then let's see what they fight for after the Olympics besides showing up at the 420 Pot Rally at the Art Gallery .

Most Anti-Olympics people want to distance themselves from anyone hiding behind black masks. Similar to how everyday Muslims want to distance themselves from the extremists. You guys are an embarrassment.

[markpasky08]

@AGROculture

you're right. There is a difference between an anarchist and a protester. And all these anarchists are making the protests look bad. But that doesn't mean the original protest is unwarranted and the voices should remain unheard. If people would just listen to the concerns it would never lead to this. But how many mainstream news pieces listen to the protests? I have not seen one. They are very dodgy on this if anything at all. Don't be so naive and listen to your fellow man!

[tacular3]

@AGROculture Well put

[fatheadgunit]

they brutilize, rape, and pilage our city streets with their greedy fuckin eyes and im glad that some people try to take a stand for the greater good.

[fatheadgunit]

sure theres always the few who vandelize, but the protest starts in good cause, and im pretty sure the real criminals arnt the ones who cover their faces its the capitalist pigs running your town, do you realize how much money is spent on the olympics? just for security alone well over 1 billion $ is spent, and when citizins ask for low cost housing the government claims they dont have enough money to do so.

[IlluminatiSeer]

ya anyone who has a black mask on is a coward, provacateur, and if not already working for the government then they should be !

[FATCACAK]

lol @ 4:14

[ianakaeeen]

Wearing a mask isn't cowardly. It's basic safety in a protest. Police target specific individuals, ones they think are leading the marches. If anonymity is used, it's more difficult for them to distinguish individuals.

Cowardly? No, it's survival. It takes a lot of balls to fight the police.

[wearechangevancouver]

Most Canadians think being patriotic is getting drunk and waving a flag.

I've seen more douchebags in painted red faces than in black ski masks this past week.

[FATCACAK]

what takes real balls is publicly exposing the crimes of the fascists that benefit from this system. standing up to be heard despite the possibility of persecution.

Imagine if Ghandi or MLK wanted to make a difference but remain anonymous? wouldnt have happened.

if you are not proud of doing something in without covering your face, its probably not worth doing..

look at Kevin Annett. Now there is a brave man.

[gotmyhedonstrate]

@ianakaeeen it also takes a whole lot of stupidity to fight the police. tips for next time: control your own crowd so they don't turn violent and force the police to try and control you.

[OutSideDeMatrix]

Fucking sheeople pigs!!

Sad indeed.

Supporting the matrix of mass conformity.

Let alone - POLICING THEMSELVES.

What a sad state of bullshit our country is in. RCMP - same shit - policing themselves!!

Colonize this dickwads.

Patriarchy religious bullshit NWO control grid!!!

Right on protesters!!!

Right on to dissent!!

Right on to ALTERNATIVE MEDIA!!!

[winrich0147]

If you can't be proud doing what you do, then don't do it.

These cowards hiding their faces accomplished nothing more than disgusting the general public. It seems to me that the idea was to get the majority of the people on side.

I was all for the protest because I also am against the Olympics, but had I been there, I would have torn the masks off these morons.

As for them being Blackwater, not everything is a conspiracy.

[wearechangevancouver]

The camera angle is the gold.

That is what we meant with the title.

We don't support vandelizing tactics that destroy public opinion and sabotage legitimate protesters.

[DivineBeast99]

Why are these fucking pussies wearing masks, if you believe in your cause, stand behind it and show your face

[celespante]

and then you go in jail immediatly... Have u been one time in riots big shot?!!

[winrich0147]

If you do damage to property, you deserve jail. If you condone it, you are as moronic as those who do the damage.

This was not a riot. In a riot the police shoot pepper spray and rubber bullets at you. They also club you with nightsticks.

[NAUresistance]

I've been in mosh pits that have been more physical than this.. looked like a giant tug of war or capture the flag game between punks and cops.

I can understand people at this point wanting to vent and make their voice heard and I support that 100%.. but I question the effectiveness of this method..

I often think are these types of protest actions feeding the demand for more of these types of riot jackboot cops? Justifies expenditures made to toward their system and ability to buy new toys?

[clbackus]

@NAUresistance Exactly, well said.

[UglyFacet]

@NAUresistance

Doesn't it seem more likely that run-away security spending will continue for as long as the canadian public remain passive and terrified of imaginary terrorists?

The black bloc at the opening ceremonies was legit (I was in it), just a lot of pissed of locals and their supporters who weren't content with polite complaining. It's the future of capitalism, polarizing society like this. But the security budgets are drawn up and rationalized years before we get together.

[Novemundecim]

I was there with 5000 friends/protesters facing off with 100 under-prepared cops. The cops did not maintain order, the protesters did. When the cops did try to start something -- pushing into the crowd -- the protesters simply refused to move. And they gave the cops an earful, asking: "We are here in support of democracy, justice and the freedom to dissent. What about you?" Then I witnessed something new: some of the cops began to listen... and then the pushing stopped.

[Zwikster]

Good to see that the VPD are not in StormTrooper riot gear tasering and beating everyone.

[echoandi]

Something I would like for you to consider is that on Friday the 12th the rally from the art gallery to BC Place Stadium, which I estimate to be between three and five thousand people strong and including upwards of fourty "black bloc protesters" in the march, was greeted by Vancouver police with no shields, helmets, or riot gear of any sort! There was no riot.

On Saturday the 13th the march was only about 150 strong, mostly "black bloc", but were met with full riot gear! There was a riot.

[WACBlackout]

We got 6 hrs of footage from both days... getting stuff out there as fast as possible.

[KOAJaps]

I betcha the provocateurs were probably Blackwater employees. They get arrested, they make a phone call, VPD apologizes and they walk free.

[WACBlackout]

Most of them seemed like kids that were either high or wanting to fight but not understanding what provocateurs are. They were lead by someone. With so many cameras and people watching they couldn't do a thing.

[WACBlackout]

The VPD did a great job. Hurts me to say it but you gotta give praise where its do.

Good job VPD! We knew there were some good people on the force.

[Winnipegplayboy420]

good job Canada.....just get rid of the Black Bandana cops pretending to protest and cause problems

[lifesblood]

I'm amazed they didn't tazer a few people, van police seem to like doing that.

[RunsWitGuns]

are these the paid provacatuers

[azmovement]

only if sum1 brot grenades

[battz3333]

They can't afford it.

They spent all the money trucking in snow..lol

[finditherefirst]

Who's Streets? Loved the Arnold Vid!