I am sure the Canadian public opinion will move. I think 17% disapproval is a bit low. It will rise in direct relation to time, as people forget the images of burning police cars, smashed windows, targeted businesses.
If a poster has had a negative experience with police in the past, I could see it overshadow the issue of the G20. Because the "unfair" encounter leads one to suspicion on this account.
The black block needs to be treated as a terrorist organization, and be hunted down and taken apart. They ruined the protest for any other group. It was a disgrace.
If it weren't for Blair's involvement in CPAC, I would be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. Now I just think he should do the right thing, & fall on his sword so we can move on.
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Another Opinion: "You want an answer to your question? Fine.
Stopping the mob from doing any further damage is enforcing the law. I'm sure if there was an easy way to stop them, the police would have used it... but there wasn't.
What would YOU have done?"
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Excellent point. You can view this at least 2 ways: 1) There was a peaceful protest infiltrated by vandals. They were in no way protected by the protest, but were distinguishable by their black clothes and should have been seen for what they were.
2) There was not a peaceful protest. There was nothing peaceful about it. In many ways the vandals were protected deliberately by the crowd.
Lobbing feces, urine, stones, spitting etc are not acts of peaceful protest.
In the first case, one splits the groups up, as is commonly done in this forum. The second case views the group as a whole.
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