Spectators in Body Armor

Argghhh!
That's the headline to Mark Steyn this morning over at NRO's The Corner:

I may have to revise my old line about the British police being "the most monumentally useless in the developed world". For the G20 summit, the Toronto coppers ordered up a ton of new body armor, weaponry, gas masks, etc - and then stood around in their state-of-the-art riot gear watching as a bunch of middle-class "anarchists" trashed the city. Streetcars were left abandoned, and even police cruisers were seized, vandalized and burned. But hey, it's the taxpayers who pay for 'em, right? And I'm sure they'll have replacements ready when Constable Plod needs to drive over to Tim Hortons for his mid-morning Boston Creme.

This is followed by a note from the Ghost of a Flea:

Video footage of the G20 peace-riot in Toronto.

With best wishes from among the ruins,

Nick

I love this line from the Flea: Intestinal blockage passes for irony: "This is what democracy looks like! That is what a police state looks like!"

Looks like my pals from the Land  of Horton are living a chinese curse this week: "May you live in interesting times." 

Wait!  This is Canada!  They pride themselves on *not* being interesting, don't they?

That said - how many of these Bobo-spawn are actually Canadian, vice scumbag pissant vagrants from out of town, so to speak?

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Posted Jun 27 2010, 08:27 AM by Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..