If an Amputee Being Handled With Brute Force By Those Who Are Supposed To Protect Doesn’t Dawn Upon Us To Do Something…

How morally bankrupt as Canadians do we have to be to let this slide?

The other stories, videos, and pictures made me sick enough.  I already started hating Canada. I see it beginning to turn into a police state.  When I saw this story over at Dr Dawg’s, I really felt sick to my stomach. And no, it wasn’t due to the heatwave in Montreal.

Redneck Ryan and Chris Karagiannis (If I misspelled your name! Tough! Deal with that, shithead!), and others who unconditionally supported the police actions under all circumstances,  I dare you to call Mr. John Pruyn of Thorold, Ontario ‘scum’, ‘inhuman’, and I believe you used ‘monkey’ Karagiannis??  In  fact, Ryan, invite him on your show and call this man every name you called all who were arrested. Tell him it was his own fault for not standing up faster or not being able to hop when the cops told him to!!  g’head!! DOOOO  IT!!! And Chris, tell Mr. Pruyn he is making a big deal over nothing! Tell him how your buddies died in Afghanistan, so you can fly your flags from your shop. That amputees who were denied their crutches, artificial or wheelchair are just being whiny! In fact, the next time you’re on CJAD, make sure Mr Pruyn or at least his daughter Sarah or wife, Susan is on the air to hear you loud and clear.  As for the others in the media supporting their views;  Go fuck yourselves!!

Here is a brief highlight of what happened to Mr Pruyn and his daughter.

In came a line of armoured police, into an area the city had promised would be safe for peaceful demonstrations during the summit. They closed right in on John and his daughter and the two others and ordered them to move. Pruyn tried getting up and he fell, and it was all too slow for the police.

As Sarah began pleading with them to give her father a little time and space to get up because he is an amputee, they began kicking and hitting him. One of the police officers used his knee to press Pruyn’s head down so hard on the ground, said Pruyn in an interview this July 4 with Niagara At Large, that his head was still hurting a week later.

Accusing him of resisting arrest, they pulled his walking sticks away from him, tied his hands behind his back and ripped off his prosthetic leg. Then they told him to get up and hop, and when he said he couldn’t, they dragged him across the pavement, tearing skin off his elbows , with his hands still tied behind his back. His glasses were knocked off as they continued to accuse him of resisting arrest and of being a “spitter,” something he said he did not do. They took him to a warehouse and locked him in a steel-mesh cage where his nightmare continued for another 27 hours.

Indeed,   do we really condone this kind of treatment? Since when?  How does bullying an amputee make Canada feel safer?

In a chilling way only known in Harperconland, I’m sure that, too, can be spun to make Mr Pruyn look like the most dangerous terrorist since  Osama Bin Laden.

And how does this happen?

Well,  I don’t agree with Stageleft a lot of the time, but in this case, he offers the best explanation. The short version:

– and as I said, the longer people support what we saw happen in Toronto, the greater the likelihood that it will happen to them as the authorities discover that there are few, if any, consequences for their behaviour.

If they stayed at home, or were out of town or had some kind of distance from it all, they have this attitude of it would never happen to me.  Most figure nothing bad will happen if they keep their noses clean so to speak. To think otherwise would be just too frightening.  In Toronto on G20 week-end, many, like Mr Pruyn and his daughter Sarah learned the hard way that that was simply not true.

It would explain much of the apathy as well; if we don’t talk about it; it will go away.  I remembered on the Monday right after G20 week-end at lunch time being in the gazebo outside my work with another co-worker discussing what happened.  Another c0-worker walked in and came right out and basically told me she didn’t want to talk about politics in a  snappy tone. I told her we were talking about human rights and how they were suspened in Toronto and how this could be the beginning of things to come, at which time she cut me off and said she only cared about her own rights. She unfortunately repeated what most Canadians say today that want to avoid talking politics like the plague.  Wow! At about that time, I had to really exercise restraint. I mean, that was not only a very selfish response, but a naive one as well.  Those human rights that are in danger of being taken away if we don’t do something now include her’s.  And not talking about it is certainly more of a guarantee for her to lose them.

Why is it that we have to wait until it’s too late to turn back before we realize what’s happened to us? I am terrified of this happening;  In this case, the police state where police can do anything to anyone they please; a police state where people can simply disappear. A police state where one can be arrested simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time or for disagreeing with the government.   Toronto got a taste of what could very well happen if apathy or fear of our own shadows continue.

I’m afraid this time, we must head this off at the pass or as Stageleft points out, it will happen to those it hasn’t happened to…yet.

There are events coming up Saturday July 10 and  Saturday July 17, depending what city you’re in. Check Facebook or other social media sites for events in  your cities and towns for more details. Please; our rights; your’s and mine and those of your children and grandchildren depend on the actions taken now.

Go read Stageleft’s post.