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G20: It wasn’t worth it
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Jun 28, 2010 06:49am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | David Rider |
| News Date | Monday, June 28, 2010 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Promised a chance to twinkle on the world stage, the centre of this City of Neighbourhoods became a ghost town, an armed camp and a fiery anarchists’ playground.
As smoke clears from a G20 weekend that saw unprecedented mayhem continue Sunday, with tense protests and mass arrests a day after police cars were torched and shop windows smashed, it’s hard to find a Torontonian who says hosting the G20 was worth it.
“Next time have it on an aircraft carrier,” said Omar Habib, a 28-year-old actor who lives north of the Front St. G20 site. Hoping on Saturday merely to stroll to his waiter job, he kept running into lines of shield-thumping riot police trying to repel black-clad anarchists.
“Why would you bring this terror to downtown?”
Even before tear gas started to waft, the run-up to the meeting of world leaders made people who frequent the core “a prisoner in their own city,” he added. “I felt like a rat in a cage.” |
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