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  • Standing around while other protesters perform illegal actions makes you just as criminally responsible. That and the riot police's presence is a clear sign that anything they do is legally justified.

  • I didn't know this happend during thee olympics??

  • like any normal person i dont like mean police officers but in this case who cares if they don't have their badge numbers showing who cares if they dont answer to you, your going around smashing stuff and runining peoples property how do you expect them to act? of course they are going to be agressive, your being violent

  • They dont have to answer your questions you dumb cunt, go make me a sandwich.

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  • DAMN HIPPIES AND ANARCHISTS!!! GO BACK TO YOUR BASEMENTS!!!

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  • @tvsux1 AWAY WITH THEE FOUL CREATURE!!!! Show not thy face here!!! >=( *pulls out anti-hippie/anarchists stick*

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  • @tvsux1 Mhhmmm... flouride!!! =D

    *Runs outside and begins to throw money at government workers*

    ALL HAIL THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION!!!! FOREVER MAY THEY RULE!!!!

    NAU!!! NAU!!! NAU!!! =D

  • @tvsux1 But on a more serious note... I have no problem with protesters but protesters who are violent are a whole different deal.

    I have thought long and hard about what I could say to you to make you see my point of view but I realize that there is nothing I can say.

    I have a brother who thinks along the same lines as I assume you do about the world.

    He has schizophrenia... He thought the CIA was after him. He is much better now thankfully.

    The government paid the medical bills.

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  • fucking Ap is a bunch of bullshit crapp..

  • man these canadians are such pussies, what do you really expect when there are a line a cops with riot shields and youre causing havoc over a pointless protest? and whats your plan when the police do something? you cry "police brutality" like a bitch. like im from vancouver for fuck sake and these people are such dumbasses. if this happened in the states the cops wouldve probably pulled a gun on you for this shit.

  • "billed as a peaceful protest"

    NO.

    this march was called "heart attack!" and it's stated goal was to sabotage the games by "clogging the arteries of capitalism". the callout and description of the action stated that a diversity of tactics would be respected- in activist lingo, that means rioting is ok. the media always assumes the black bloc and other rioters are hijacking other people's protests, but they actually organized this one.

  • THE POLICE DID A EXCELLENT JOB!!! AND FOR ALL YOU LOW LIFE NO GOOD CRIMINALS WHO ARE SAYING OTHERWISE GO GET LOCKED UP IN PRISON AND STAY OUT OF OUR NEIBORHOODS AND AWAY FROM OUR KIDS PUNKS. people don't know the differences between protesting and crime ALL OF THESE PROTESTORS WERE ASSHOLES AND CRIMINALS!!!! you really think people will take you seriously acting like 2 year olds GROW THE HELL UP!!!

    

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  • Anarchists.

    Police responded excellently during the Olympics. They kept order without any undue violence. I even saw a police officer get spit on and stay calm and collected, let's see you all do that. Overall, very professional conduct all around.

  • Same old bunch of rioters the city hires to cause damage and allowing the police to shut down your peacefull protest .

  • When the protest turned violent? Breaking windows isn't violent, nor is pushing over mailboxes.

  • @MrPantallica

    lol. o.k. , let me know where you live and I'll 'peacefully protest' all over your stuff?  sound cool? this isn't protest, it's a bunch of immature idiots trying to justify their anti-social tendencies. "look at me! I'm an ill-understood, revolutionary who skimmed Marx, once....when high" yawn. way to screw over anyone actually trying to make a difference in the world.

  • @Fairisasfairdoes

    Peaceful protests can be effective, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have anywhere near the polarizing effect of a riot. Also, politicians don't care very much at all about regular protests. The chance of one changing anything is minuscule, unless the scale of the protest is massive.

  • lol Im so angry imma knock over a mailbox

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  • 1:22 i like when i see someone stand up to these thugs..

  • i was there when theses idiots did dont you think it strange they all run away after breaking video we should have a anti black clad asshole group and go after them

  • i dont understand how smashing this will get your point across, it will only get you arrested

  • these protesters want somthing, but them destroying stuff wont change a fukin thing!

  • i swear im tired of hippies seriously there should be a law to kill all hippies.

  • Oh man :(

  • Oh man :(

  • violent protestors don't have a clue what they're protesting about LOL! EPIC FAIL

  • fuck these hippie fags

  • i still dont believe in smashing peoples personal shit like cars and such, doesnt have shit all to do with olympics per se, maybe they have another reason but corporate smashing and state smashing is always good. hopefully some poeple open their fucking eyes more now. as riots start happening in your fucking home too. !!!

  • Your the pointy end of the fool tool

    dummy wish wastes of skin like you would just shut the fuck up and take a long walk on a short pier, asswipe

  • and again...... smashing inanimate objects really isnt violence. not that will harm anyone physically tho. those fukkers just what the people with things to say to shut up so there fucking city doesnt look bad and they dont get more money and shit. its still about control you fucking rats !!!!!!

  • do you read what you write you dumb twat

  • My level? I am semi-retired because I worked hard and kissed no one's ass to get it. $100 000? almost middle class I guess but perpetuating the lowest minimum wage makes no economic sense only encourages employee abuse. Good luck keep ignoring real Canadian issues,

  • why protest when you hide yourself? Your not gonna do shit unless your show yourself. fuckin pussys

  • I have an acrylic sales item with a chunk of TARSAND from the 1980's sales pitch. LOL! your assuming a lot about me but not posting many vids of your own. Nice!

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    I love life and Canada and live in the grown up world hope you join us soon. Peace,

  • IF you could read you might have noticed I agreed with some of your statement, but like the falsehood of global warming, the spread of lies and half truths runs amuck in your head.

  • Yes then I also can think the USA is stealing water from us by spraying Silver Iodine into the clouds.... heck I thought it was just used to try and minimize the damage from strong hail storms.

    I submit to your superior intellect and opportune placement and use of the word troll.

    Like every screaming environmental nut they only look at part truths that support your view, and assume the rest cant be true even if real science says it is.

  • Not stealing we have resource sharing if that is what is increasing the air traffic haze and the huge contrails kids think are chemtrails to kill them. I'm no hippy enviro-nut like David Suzuki who compares humans to maggots but your judgement fits with that logic, I work for a living I don't have an expense account salary deal. You probably think the average human is causing the sun to heat up too! Good banter,

  • @STEVEDIGIBOYtv

    First at least I know even if global warming was true it not because the suns heating up...I was going to educate you on the theory but why bother, it's all Bullshit anyway. and you believe they are spraying Chenical in the air from jets to steal our water...

  • @STEVEDIGIBOYtv the "air traffic haze" is a result of the injection of water vapor into the atmosphere by exhaust fumes from a jet engine. If there is sufficient mixing between the cold upper tropospheric air and the hot exhaust gases to produce a state of saturation, ice crystals will developmosture i.e water in the air

  • after all who do you think pays for the wages? the magic wage fairy? the cost is passed on to the consumer. i.e you and me

  • @STEVEDIGIBOYtv

    the reason your poorly paid does not have anything to do with your Government minimum wage, like everything it is supply and demand. if you flip burgers, there is lots of people avalible. hence your wages reflect that. if they increase your minimum wage. 50 cents will that change anything? or 1,2,3 or 5 dollars?? only short term because with in a few months the cost of living will increase to off set the increase in minimum wages,

  • Wow you must be a expert because you have a 30 year old piece of Oilsands incased in a Acrylic "sale Pitch"

    I don't think I need to assume much your making it pretty clear.

  • @STEVEDIGIBOYtv

    I went and looked at your videos.. if you want to run with a conspiracy theory at least make it a little hard to debunk.

    nice pictures of Cirrostratus Clouds maybe even a few Cirros Clouds in there..

    good music though.

  • You need to study what China and Russia admits to it's people before you go assuming kids are breathing the low level flight exhaust at 3000ft in Vancouver are safe. They actually understand science not just red mitten logic. LOL! I just film what I see you just critic what you cannot understand. Conspiracy? like BC rail? or the IOC making 230+ million off our taxes?

  • But no one is adding chemicals to cause clouds to suck up moisture and ship it to Mount Baker... what a waste of effort there is millions of gallons of water in the Columbia River the USA lets got to the sea.

  • It's global or at least western & based there is a panic on fresh water, humans should not have to buy water it is an essential like exhaling Co2 which some want to tax. If the sun cycle 23 no spots is heating up then evaporation too is on rise and extreme cold because of no cloud nights. Like other planets with little atmosphere. Oceans gas more Co2 by heating than all the people in the world. Many countries make and disperse clouds, crap most people think mercury is good for you these days.

  • We can spray silver iodine to (in theory) to make clouds rain I adeww BUT its not done to "make clouds"

    the sun is NOT heating up. WE are cooling AND Global warming is bases on misguided and sloppy science.

  • ...or calcium chloride and sodium chloride or cement like the mayor of Moscow wants to use to force the clouds to dump their snow. Man split the atom, making clouds is basic in comparison with nano technology. The science is published , google welsbach patent and see the cloud patterns created. We agree on bunk science warming but it ain't cooling it's the sun. Have you taken UV readings for 4 years weekly? I have would scare you more than the chemtrail conspiracy theories. Peace thanks AP LOL!

  • . But that's that last I am going to say on that because it is to silly to debate.

    peace to you and best of luck catching the cloud stealer's

  • . have you ever been to the Columbia river by Portland it is massive and it runs right in to the ocean so why would you steal water out of the sky when it is going to fall in the mountains and end up where you need it anyway.

    there could be conspiracies out there but this one is not plausible because it does not make sense in anyway

  • @STEV@STEVEDIGIBOYtv

    I am sure if they could figure it out we would not have the droughts in the USA I.E California summer and the fire last year... anyway the bigger point is why? the expense and the hassle to do what your proposing is ludicrous. there is many million of cubic meters of water that runs through Washington state and Oregon that they can just pipe from if they really needed it

  • It's that or the welsbach reflection experiment which I hope is not the case. Anyways contrails do not get turned on and off and there is hundreds of videos of that. Until physics explains cold air increasing in heat because of regular jet exhuast I'll keep guessing. It is the best show on the tube, mega trends by Alvin Toffler may have mentioned this kind of mega project read him at 12. Gates is working on weather manipulation too and is no dummy, thanks for being a good debater.

  • what are you sum religious tool. how the fuck do you kno mr hawking. stfu

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  • I understand clouds and your chem. trails are water vapor everyday water vapor in the form of clouds...

    Is there poisonous gas in jet exhaust your right, carbon monoxide, free hydro carbons? Nitrous oxide and about 100 other chemicals that are formed from the combustion of hydro carbon fuel sources.

  • Watch the days develope, increased "regular" traffic or not the contrails are expanding which would require increasing heat if at contr4ail altitude but these are below 10 thou and spread out to cover sun. No convincing you? how do contrails go on & off in flight? I just want to be able to enjoy sun and fish in water not getting fuel and whatever dumps. Libby Davies MP calls these chemtrails I call it science playing god.

  • Contrails are a result of moisture in the air temperature of the air and the heat from the jet exhaust there are layers of different temperatures and moisture levels as you move up and down in height. Anyway believe what you want I care less if youre freaked out over nothing

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  • More people hurt by Vanoc unsafe venues and luge track than any protest. The Hockey fans in '94 almost burnt the city to ground and they were Olympic style fans. Outsiders did this and meth heads they dragged along with them,

  • Vandalism is NOT violence.

  • No it's not but that doesn't justify your means. If I go to any city in the world and start smashing things the police have every right to take me down by force.

    After that you try and justify your resisting of arrest by claiming police brutality.

    You're just lucky you live in a country where the police aren't so heavy handed and not a country where you would simply "disappear"

  • @zeezeepimps ur an idiot

  • Sadly some of the protesters have valid points. There is a lot of waste that could got elsewhere. Instead, look at the 120 mark the Black Block are even fighting among themselves. They can't even get their crap together in order to be on the same theme. If that isn't the classic sign of a group of pure losers, I don't know what is. Anarchy at its best. Just what society needs. We can all sit around and live off of..... That's the kind of people I want as my leader and mentor.

  • What the Black Block should do is follow the House of Commons example where all the members agree on what's best for the whole population. If the Black Block was running the country we'd be sending soldiers over to Afghanistan to risk their lives over a gas pipeline. Innocent civilians would be killed. Afghan families blown to mangled bloody pieces. Yep, those Black Block nasties should all be arrested.

  • Actually, this is not anarchy at it's best. I was going to send you a link to a video of worker self-management in argentina, but it got deleted, somewhat unsurprisingly... Anyone else notice the huge increase in censorship on youtube? Fucking ridiculous... thanks for not being evil, google! Christ almighty...

  • why were they protesting anyway ?

  • @WiggyRap

    7+ billion we pay in taxes for the IOC to profit and nationalism western style gets it war like exercises in and outside the games. This was a huge cash grab made for TV failure amidst a growing international depression. Smart!

  • Actually the Canada line, Whistler highway, and convention centere were going to be built regardless of the games. This represents nearly 4 billion of the 7billion....oh wait actually it less than 7 billion. Yes the Olympic village costs 1.2 billion and unless we see a drop in real estate prices (unlikely), this cost will be recouped. These projects and the others are not single use items that are only in use for 2 weeks

  • No transparency and they do not abide by the BC freedom of information act they are exempt. C'mon Hastings has gained very little help, the IOC will make 230+ million off us and the lack of expertise and for sight may have killed a luge competitor through negligence. The riot/barrier crash in Yaletown also hurt more than all protests, 25 thousand upset ticket holders let down. FAIL BC government sucking up to A class, police even felt that way on street.

  • Again you fail to address my point that nearly 4 billion of ther 6.2 billion in spending was going to be built regardless of olympics. Unless we see a fall in real esate prices, the Olympic village will be covered as well. The remaining costs have all ready been covered. This is exactly why infrastructure costs are typically not quoted in cost as much of it would have been built anyways.. So your plan is to not have built these projects and help instead the people of East hasting. ....

  • ....essentially you want to deduct partial or complete labour from at least 10,000 people to help the 2500 homeless people. Deducting labour ffrom the very people who pay for the social programs is sheer stupidity on your part. What I find ironic is why there are so few visual minorities amongst the protesters.

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  • Your just ignorant and have a miopic view of society and how it works or gets worked. Liberal defending troll you are nice past time,

  • Insult me all you want, but you have yet to disprove anything I say.

  • Wahhh! maybe the school cuts, ambulance workers being forced back as well as the 300 000 WORKING full time in BC below the poverty level was worth the party. Taxes should pay for infrastructure anyways or maybe all the mining and forestry of raw logs the Province allows should. Your points are pointless, the minimum wage here is still the lowest in Canada and we have the "training" wage even lower for those not willing to speak up? Being a negative troll is going out of your way to insult.

  • @STEVEDIGIBOYtv Again steve you have not refuted a single one of my points. So what is your solulution to not have built the Convention Centre, whistler highway, or Canada line? Coventions and the tourism along the hwy 99 are huge for our economy. To not bolster these areas in light of ever increasing traffic and number Conventions is just plain idiotic. The Canada line has dramatically cut down the commute time for transit users and is getting rave reviews. Not to mention there are has been ..

  • ... thousands of permanent jobs created from these projects in additon to the temporary. So your solution to the problem is to unemploy several thousand people. Also what i noticed is you convientently forgot to deduct the private investment in the total Olympic spending (6.2 billion)

  • Thousands permenant? at the minimum or the training rate? Your so funny and absurd you sound just like a Liberal ignore reality and party party party! forget the peasants they deserve to starve for being less able to suck up to highschool level left right actors. You have no answer for the slave wages set in BC so give up you troll.

  • My friend was a Non destructive tester on the Canada Line and made nearly 100K with OT in one year. 100K in one year is a little bit more than $8/hr....wouldn't you agree? To entertain your idea that all the workers who work with or worked on these various projects were all paid $6-$8 hr - I would like to see your proof that no one made more than $8/hr on these projects both now and previous

  • Sparring-apple:

    300 000 in BC still below poverty line, meanwhile banks get rich of the huge drug market and think that is honest work, neglecting the less advantaged will only further and tax the social system. Ignore them go ahead, our good troops are in A-stan supporting a government that allows 50 year old men to marry 7 year olds and rape their wives but it's ok we had the olympics and we made money who cares about our global real world reputation of a drug city.

  • So your solution is to neglect the middle and upper class. Again how is having several thousand out of work going to be of a benefit to BC. Your are proposing greater housing at the expense of harming the very people who are responsible for paying for it. You don't solve problems by bringing down others to your level. Again nice to see you dodge my questions

  • You are spewing garbage Steveiboy

    1000's of trades men and 1000's of labours worked there and i can tell you they recieved exellent wages. maybe the flag people were not in the high 20"s but PLEASE quit your spewing garbage hole from telling more lies

  • Thousands, LOL! flag peopel real hard working! LOL! how do we fix the 300 000 being paid full time a wage below the poverty line? You want angry peasants breaking into your home or car for $5 to get Kraft dinner? I'd rather raise Canada to a better standard thanks. Your opinion is yours my opinion is mine, agreed. Spewing garbage hole class act, the Europeans I talked too thought Hastings was the worst open air drug market in the world, we should be ashamed as a society we allow/ignore it.

  • B.C.s general minimum wage is $8 per hour.

    The First Job/Entry Level minimum wage is $6 per hour. This only applies to employees with no paid work experience before November 15, 2001. After they have worked for a total of 500 hours with one or more employers, these employees are entitled to the regular minimum wage rate.

  • Hastings is a mess but drugged out and messed up people cant/don't work so minimum wage coukd be 15 per hour does nothing.except put a bunch of student out of work.

    Hasting is a huge mess but I am not ashamed

    NOT ONCE DID I PUT THE NEEDLE IN TO THEIR ARM OR LIGHT THEIR CRACK PIPE. The people there can take the credit for there own actions

    And Europeans DID not fix the problem so te the HELL are you talking about??

    travel just a little and you will see it is in every major city there to

  • Funny the world is calling it the best games ever Show casing the warmth, class and incredable country we call Canada BC and Vancouver.

    Everyone should be proud of the wonderful games and the fututre opportunities it will bring for everyone including the drugies and homeless

  • I agree with one point the death was a tragic event and a barrier would have saved his life but it is a high speed and very dangerous sport. And unless you can control the weather shit happens and 25 thousand ticket holders will have to suck it up. it was a safety issue

  • I guess you have never heard of geo-engineering or cloud seeding with jets under the Canado-American Treaties eh? Jean Sauve signed it allowing weather manipulation over Canada with chemicals. China admits it, Russia admits it but our public are far to dumbed down to really understand science. Just red mitten scams and marketing. Sad not the Canada it once was. At least we can still win hokey with proffesional millionares and such.

  • Calgary is a great example of how the legacy of the Olympics has added to a community and brought huge returns into a community long after the games were gone

  • Ya look what the Tar-sands are doing! great stuff too bad your Province is being poisoned while selling giving 75% of the oil to US! Mel Hurtig sums up most Canadians lack of care for their country in "Who killed Canada" free trade and citizens by and large to ignorant to know it is their country and crown land.

  • Shit man go get some help your not only total paranoid your very angry.

    Free trade saved Canada

    The Oil Sands are a natural resource that will continue to add wealth for all of Canada and the Poisoned comment is just fear mongering and detracts from the real issue which is the use of potable water.

    get some help before you jump off a bridge or something... the worlds not that bad..

  • Dude your the insane one if you think changing the name from Tar sands to oil sands is going to stop the vast environmental damage you are supporting. Science to some is crazy but I won't tell you to go seek help. You should try prozac it will make being a troll easier and living in denial less painful I believe Mel Hurtig Canada has/is being sold out from under our children.

  • The police arrested noone of the black masked people, but the black masked gang gave the police an excuse to arrest and attack the rest of the people. If I had been there I'd get people of the same opinion and beat up those masked people good for destroying our demo.

    They must have been paid canadian paralell to CIA shill fuckers the lot of them.

  • The Canadian parallel to CIA is so incompetent that if they had even planed something like you are suggesting it would have been front page news more the a year ago.

  • Kind of funny you should say that. Cause it actually WAS all over the News a year ago. YT search canadian police + riot + strike . It was all over YouTube. Canadian police posing as black bloc. And to you Black Blockers out there.. Police trying to do the same thing YOU do, should be a CLEAR effing sign you're doing something WRONG,

  • Maybe- but how often do you hear about CSIS? Almost never. This leads me to believe they are far more efficent. (lol)

  • if these idiots had jobs they wouldn't be protesting. Its amazing what these idiots will do for 5 bucks and a ham sandwich.

  • Good for the cops. Congratulations on a job well done. Through these scum in jail and loose the key.

  • if you watched the video, none of the "black clad protestors" were arrested- just the non-violent ones. yep, good job, cops.

  • So what's with the "black clad rioters" looks like they're government employees. Taxpayer money in action disgusting.

  • Let us abolish democracy and law for two hours, so the law of the jungle will rule. Then the Black Block will get there misinformed wish and see what real anarchy is about. The cops can kick the crap out of the idiots who are breaking windows and give them what they really deserve.

  • @WhitewaterProfessor I couldn't agree more. Give me 10 min. alone with these sub-humans!

  • Police did not step in?

    No doubt, they wanted to let the protestors look bad. So they let the bad apples have their way first. Get it on video. And make the entire protest look bad.

    Good tactics.

  • as seen in many events the so called "anarchists" dressed in black are usually police provoking attacks and riot police.

  • @LavaMountainKat What have you been smoking? The protesters in black are part of an Anarchist society called the Black Block. They are weak minded losers.

  • Who pays for the police that be the taxpayers , government should be careful on how they're introducing violence into society.

    The three stooges could do a better job... I've definitely had enough of the puppet show.

  • Canadian cops have dressed-up like protesters in the past, and have provoked violence amidst the peaceful protesters. Is this another one of their shenanigans? Notice how the violent faction always masks their faces.

  • @joe80dman What planet do you live on? The protesters in black are part of an Anarchist society called the Black Block. They are weak minded individuals who have no jobs or purpose in life other than to attend protests and incite the crowd with violence. I was at the riots of Seattle, Quebec city both times and several other places. These reprobates were there and stood for nothing. We should void democracy for a couple of hours so the cops can kick their ass like they deserve to be kicked.

  • @joe80dman

    dont respond to whitewaterprofessor. he's COINTELPRO agent with his freshly made page and only attacks this video.

  • @inad316: Okay, got it. Yeah, YT has tons of shills. Usually they're easily found out.

  • @inad316 Not really sure what a COINTELPRO agent Is? However if it means I don't support people wearing masks because they are too gutless to show their face while they smash other peoples property, then yes you have guessed me right. I support democracy and the freedom of speech which includes peaceful protest and expression of thought. I also believe in voting those out of government who I do not support and the will of the majority to decide. So if that a COINTELPRO you're right,

  • @inad316 Anyone who hides behind a mask to break windows like a two year old is an idiot. Those who support them are also an idiot. You've successfully shown the world what a bunch of real losers you are. Sadly you are not intelligent enough to know that you diminished the cause of others. The real protesters were people like Dr. Martin Luther King and Gandhi who stood up to an entire system without violence. They influenced the world. It took intelligence which you obviously lack.

  • what are these idiots up to ....

  • Those protesters who rioted are agent provocateurs. They work with the government, sooner or later your freedom of speech is taken away. Why you think police didn't arrest them but arrested the once peacefully protesting? Look it up there are so many examples of these agents.

  • Just more government conspiracy BS... They're thugs pure and simple. You should start looking things up.

  • @inad316: Canadian cops have done the same practice in the past. Makes one wonder who the real criminals are.

  • @inad316 You're an idiot if you really believe that stupidity, The ability to protest is one of the greatest examples of freedom of speech and democracy at work. Do you really believe what you just wrote?

  • @WhitewaterProfessor

    maybe you do not understand what i wrote. yes that is freedom of speech. but it will soon be taken away when these people continue to riot like that. and the funny thing is the rioters are backed by government agents to do this and discredit the peaceful protesters. GET IT? sooner or later there WONT be no freedom of speech because every1 will associate protesters as riots.

  • it's not freedom of speech

    freedom of speech is expressing yourself WITHOUT hate, or something that will cause harm to another being

    && these olympic protesters are stupid. i'm all up for protesting but they are taking it to a whole new level!

    protesters should educate the community with pros, cons, facts and not just turn violent and get ppl to fear them. They stopped the flag from arriving to my school, they ripped up our flags.. I support what they do, but not HOW they did it

  • the fuck is wrong with people?

    What justifies public vandalism?

    and riots?

    Line was drawn, line was crossed.

  • Long Live True Democracy!!!

  • fucking hippies

  • These so called protestor are nothing but hooligans and vandals looking to start shit.

    the olympics are underway and 90 percent of the city support it. so how does doing stupid shit and causing damage to innocent's people's property help your cause..

    this is probably the right time for those RCMP's to start tasing these fucken cowards that are too afraid to show their faces

  • actually the city is split close to 50/50 on support for the olympics

  • woah "they dont haveee badge numbersss showinggggg" there wearing riot gear you moron probably because unknown individuals wearing black ski masks looking like something out of the movie HEAT are throwing shit through windows, and starting fights. Happy Vancouver 2010.

  • i agree for fighting for what you believe in

  • By damaging property owned by others?

  • fuck the police

  • I hate fucking protestors. They act like what they're doing is justified and then flip out when action is taken against them. Using the Olympics to get attention is bullshit.

  • funny how they are covering there faces and waving the media away? isnt the point to attract attention to the protest?

  • I don't respect people that employ children to toil away in sweatshops for pennies.

    I don't believe the vandalism was very meaningful, but I'm not going to condemn them. I'm certainly on their side, even if I disagree with a number of their actions. I am not going to to cheer for the banks, corporations, and their servants, the police.

    Several hours ago you wanted the protesters to be beaten unconscious, and now you sound like a pacifist.

  • You and superiorgreen each need a girlfriend and a valume, or a toke, or a hug. you kind of guys get sooo worked up over "political" sht that isn't even political.

  • stupid protesters think they're so hardcore tipping down newpaper stands

  • "Those vandals should be shot."

    "They should be tased!"

    "They should be beaten unconscious"

    It's nice to see the people who value property more than human life. Superiorgreen, they weren't smashing up Ma and Pa's deli. Hudson's Bay Company isn't going to be put out of business over a broken window.

    Yesterday 12 Afghan civilians were eviscerated by NATO bombs, but who has time to worry about that when protesters in Vancouver are pushing trash cans over!

  • Human Life IS property. Respect it. Listen Punk, that window belongs to another person, whether you like them or not. You do not like when people destroy your property. Your the reason The First Amendmant will be hobbled, "Protests are dangerous and destructive" That is called a riot, not a protest. If I was right there, I would do something, not stand there allowing crime on MY protest. I dont care about the Trashcans or Paperboxes, I do care about $1000 windows somebody pays for. Respect.

  • There's much more to human life than property. I'm not a big fan of their tactics, but I don't care about the window. HBC has a pretty awful history, and 1,000 dollars is nothing to a company worth billions.

    I'm sure you care more about that window than you do about the 5 Afghan children that were killed yesterday by NATO, and that's really sad.

  • It does not belong to you. That is the problem here with BOTH sides. They think of you as nothing, and you think of them as nothing.

    HBC might be up to no good, but let us be up to good. Peace friend. You need to look at my favorites and uploads and tell me about my feelings for Afghanistan or any other poor NATO victim nation. I respect ALL people, even HBC. When HBC resorts to murder or fraud, expose them, don't make yourself look evil by vandalizing. BE EFFECTIVE, not destructive.

  • The majority of these large corporations have accumulated their wealth through the exploitation of workers. In many ways they stole their property. I'm not going to feel bad for these corporations. I would feel bad if the protesters were destroying some guy's pretzel cart, or some mom and pop pizzeria.

    I'm not a big fan of their tactics, but the attacks aren't random. They aren't smashing every window in sight.

  • Well then your crime is justified. HBCs crimes are also justified. Where do you stand? A little properly directed crime is OK? Your tactics make you no better than HBC. Scum is scum, it takes many forms on both the left and the right.

    Do the workers at HBC suffer from the company loss and property damage or does The CEO? Who are you hurting if your grandmother shops at HBC and the prices are raised to pay for the window you just broke? Are those actually protesters or plants?

  • All crime isn't immoral. At one point it was legal for human beings to own other human beings; it was illegal for women to vote. Civil rights protesters were breaking the law during sit-ins. I'm not comparing these protesters to civil rights activists, I'm just saying it's wrong to look at laws as divine entities.

    1,000 dollars is nothing to HBC, but I wouldn't care if they lost all of their money. I care about the people they exploit, like all of the sweatshop workers they have used.

  • I do not agree with LAW as a means to make society right, I do believe in respect as a means to making society right. If you do unto others as you would want done to you, you will find yourself doing no harm. Not breaking windows, not jacking people, not ripping off employees, not paying slave wages, none of it. The spirit within you Allende seeks righteousness and justice, the spirit of HBC is shareholder and profit, do not lower your values to the level of HBC. Make a difference, not damage.

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  • its funny how you use the argument of "theres other shit happening in the world so we dont care about smaller shit happening".. guess what couple million jews were killed in the halacaust, does that make the crime of your car getting smashed for no reason less criminal than it is?

    and by your argument, shoplifting should be allowed because big companies are going to be put out of bisuness over a bit of stolen goods

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  • I think if a protester destroys another persons private property for fun or a statement, he deserves to get the bloody pulp beat out of him by Nazi police. It is sad to see vandalism, do you even care what they are protesting, once they turn violent, destructive, or aggressive? I would really like to have seen a clip of police abusing the protester that was breaking windows, until he could no longer move, causing the same damage to his face as the shopowner suffered to his property. Fair is Fair

  • too many times it's just a stunt for the corporate media, who are governed by the govt.

    why don't we ever see videos of cops trying to stop people who are committing vandalism.

    cops have been caught many times.. being the ones who are starting the riots.

  • Those are plants. Thay is why they are all wearing black and have their faces covered. They do not even know what they are protesting.

    I like protest, I feel there is too little as a matter of fact, against cops.

  • Fucking twerps to chicken to show their faces. Hope they all get ganged up on and bootfucked off the waterfront.

  • Those dirty pot smoking hippies! What the hell is wrong with them? Fucking breaking things, parents never spanked them as children, no doubt brought up by nannies, yuppy parents burnt.

  • these anarchists were braught in by the government from other provences and America to make all the peacefull protesters look bad, this is staged, thats why police did nothing to stop it.

  • this was totally peaceful ... not a single cop was injured or killed. any reaction that comes down is only from fear

    0:35 who gives a fuck what the IOC will except or draws the line, we have our own laws thank you