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I spent a good hour yesterday watching videos of the commotions that was happening in Toronto due to protesters of the G20 Summit. What I saw just made me angry and disgusted. I don’t know what their cause was but by the looks of things, the violence that they were displaying is unaccepted. It angered me to see the destruction that they were causing. Windows were being smashed, police cars were being burnt and properties were being vandalized. I don’t know what sort of message they were trying to get across but it’s not working.

From what I saw, there were peaceful protesters and then there were anarchist. I didn’t see much of the peaceful protesters because they were being overshadowed by the anarchist. The destruction that they brought up the financial district of Toronto was just madness. I don’t understand what their cause was or what message they were trying to convey but I would not support them. They had no respect whatsoever for public property and they appeared to be destroying everything in their paths.

There was a clip on CTV where the cameraman caught a vandal throwing a rock and smashing a window. An older man tried to stop him from continuing but the people around him started shouting at him as if he was a bully. No! He was doing the right thing by stopping the guy from causing any further damage. Bravo to him for being so courageous to do such a thing, given his surroundings. Shame to the violent protesters who goes around destroying things all the while hiding behind a face mask.

The thing that I didn’t quite understand was how or why the situation was allowed to escalate to this point. I heard that there was a joint force between the local police department and police departments from outside of Ontario. With that amount of resources, those violent protesters should have been dealt with. It seems like the police didn’t expect this sort of thing to happen. But the way I see it, if you’re going to be putting up barricade of steel fence, shouldn’t you prepare for a worst case scenario?

The behaviours of these violent protesters are similar to that of a small scale terrorist act. How, is what they’re doing any different? Are they not performing these acts of violence to achieve a goal? As far as I can tell, they seem like a bunch of hooligans who managed to find a reason to go around destroying things. I don’t think they’re fighting for any cause at all. What they’re doing is just violence without purpose. If they have a message, what’s their message?

I feel sorry for the peaceful protesters because their voices will not be heard because the attention was drawn away from them and focused towards the violent ones.

CTV coverage of G20 protesters

Recently, I’ve been reading materials here and there. Some of the stories were interesting but then there were some that just didn’t quite make any sense to me. Most of the topics were about handicapped people. I understand that handicap people are in need of special assistances but this rediculous.

A recently news article I’ve read was about a blind guy suing Target.com because they didn’t allow the blind to see.

Link: Blind student sues Target

This may be another thing to add to the list for my previous blog. Why is this guy suing a website because it’s not allowing him to see the page? It’s not their fault he’s blind. I don’t mean to be mean or anything but he is going to a website. Part of the word, ‘website,’ suggests that you need to be able to see. Why didn’t he sue the store. If Target is anything like Walmart, I doubt they have braille on their price tags.

If I went to a store and they weren’t offering something I liked, I wouldn’t go back there. I’m not going to sue them because they’re not carrying a particular item. I don’t have a say in the matter of what they want to sell, it’s a privately owned company. They can market to whomever they want. That’s the whole purpose of doing the target market research.

And why draw the line with Target’s website. Why not go ahead and sue the Ministry of Transportation too. They don’t want to give blind people a driver’s license, that’s a little discriminating isn’t it. Sue them too, why don’t he.

Maybe one day, the deaf people will sue the recording industry because they can’t hear music.

If that guy comes to my site, I might get sued because some of the content isn’t accessible. But then again, I’m in Canada, so hopefully, I’m out of their jurisdiction, unless Canada has an Act similar to the one in America. But anyway, people will sue anyone for anything these days. If you’re low on cash, just randomly pick someone to sue and your financial problems are over.