After the widely condemned police brutality during the G20 Summit in Toronto, crowds gathered for a protest in front of Police Headquarters in Toronto on Monday, June 28, 2010. There, Naomi Klein tore into the Toronto Police for choosing to “play public relations” instead of doing their job.
Greatest people alive: Naomi Klein and Julian Assange of Wikileaks
@TheAbysmallyAbsurd
I think she was only pointing out the fact that despite a billion bucks they couldn’t even put the flames out on a burning cop car.
@ApocalypsePlough
She is both a Canadian and an American citizen her family is
mixed most of her relatives are New Yorkers.
Canada has done amazing PR for itself…say foreign oil to most
Americans and they think of Saudis in headgear. When in fact their
oil comes from the Alberta Tar Sands the single most ecodical
industry on planet earth and the source of what American drive on.
Since signing Kyoto Canada has increased its carbon pollution by at
least 38% if you add overseas Canadian mining projects in
Third World it’s more like 50%. They signed to reduce by 30% and
increased by 40%.
@fortnightshowcase Actually, I was at the G20 protests and many of the “progressives” were opposed to the property destruction and blamed the anarchists for getting arrested. There’s really no solidarity among leftists; it’s pathetic.
@fortnightshowcase – I haven’t read anywhere that Naomi Klein is an American citizen. She was born & grew up in Canada. She now lives in Toronto with her Canadian-born husband Avi Lewis, who comes from a very well known Canadian leftist political family.
Does having American parents allow her to claim American citizenship? Maybe it does. I don’t know. From what I’ve read, she doesn’t want to be known as an American. She shudders at the thought. Read some of her columns.
Like this one – On Not Being American, by Naomi Klein –
h t t p : / / w w w . naomiklein . org/articles/2004/06/not-being-american
PART 1
Yes she does hold both citizenships but she is NOT resident in
the USA but her American parentage entitled her to that. She is in
fact far more American in her character than you suppose. I find
her Canadian-ness to be rather shallow she suffers from a typical
Toronto-centricity with a touch of Montreal where she grew up.
She often shows how out of touch with Canadian culture she is.
PART 2
As for the Lewis family marrying into them was her worst mistake. They
are the worst betrayers of the Left in Canada. Why today the NDP
is just another just another yuppie liberal party. Yes she opposes the
things they back that are wrong but in your history the NDP was like
a socialist labour party it was Lewis family that gutted it of all its
revolutionary. This was an act of overt South Ontario liberal elitism
against what was very much a Mid-West based labour movement.
@TheAbysmallyAbsurd
I agree.
@fortnightshowcase – first of all, it is not me marking your posts as spam. And I think whomever is doing it is a f**king moron. Probably an American, as Americans like to talk the talk, but not walk the walk, as far as free speech.
You are from the UK. Perhaps you are wanting her to be an American rather than facing the fact that she is Canadian? Do you think if she was American that would taint her, and you want her to be tainted?
….. I don’t know how someone who was born & grew up in Canada and still lives there with her Canadian born husband could be more American than Canadian. I could understand someone like Michael Ignatieff being more American, as he lived away from Canada for decades, & came back only because he wanted to be PM. I can understand the entertainers who moved away when they were young being more American, like Neil Young, even though he considers himself Canadian.
… Neil Young spent his teen years in Winnipeg & wants to be buried on the Prairies, because that sounds a lot more romantic than being buried in LA. I don’t think he gives a shit about Winnipeg.
Getting back to Naomi, I don’t think you understand that Canadians & Americans think differently. Our psyches are different. Americans are taught individualism & materialism & jingoism, Canadians are taught community & humility & sensibility. Klein belongs in the latter category more than the former.
….. She was inculcated with Canadian ideals more than American ones ….. because she was born here and grew up here and still lives here. It’s not rocket science.
@ApocalypsePlough
watch
Naomi Klein “The Shock Doctrine” & “No Logo” interview
this YouTube interview she clearly explains at the end that
she is a dual citizen.
NO QUESTION OF IT !! 50:45 last minute of interview
@ApocalypsePlough
Make sure you paste entire line into youtube seach box
Naomi Klein “The Shock Doctrine” & “No Logo” interview
@BadRonald69
People like you always throw the baby out with the bathwater.
It may be true that she is hypcritical but that does NOT discount
the well researched facts in her books.
they didnt let the cop cars burn, the anarchist did it. there proof.
errr… stupid KIKE witch!
Cops have willfully psychologically tortured me for last 2 years for cirme of using my civil rights to not talk to them. Some of JPs in scarborough, Ontario court and entire court staff, is an extention of Police. I am in shock that in a modern society the court JPs would copy me, coz cops told them that in their “theories” my expressions mean something. cops get by w theories while rest of us have to prove merit. wow. Welcome to Canadian Justice system.
@akai1221
Get out cop. Again infiltrating, pretending to be public. If you don’t like what she is saying, get out. This forum is for the rest of us. Already you steal our money, our media etc. Let us discuss you here.
That is what cops always do. They paly of people’s fears. They tell the common man, if you don’t give me the money (money = power) to take care of this person (their personal enemy framed as a criminal or even a terrorist, they have no limits) or this summit, then we can’t guarantee your security. They lie left right center. Make up false threats. Capitalize on his fears and steal the common man’s money, to become more powerful against the common man in the end.
@1kash123 –
Can’t you see? kikes are all over… they’re Already steal our money, our media etc. and that’s include Naomi klein etc.
For a billion dollars you could get a million Rambos… and probably 2 million water cannons
The cops are trained to treat us all like slaves in their role to continue the illusion of freedom, for the shareholders of the corporation of Canada. We saw it in all the videos when the jackboot was coming down on the heads of the people, “get on the ground, slave…”