Take the elite political shakers that represent our best interests and ask them to answer a simple question:
Why would you think that holding the G8 & G20 in downtown Toronto, would work?
Certainly, the wives of the leaders must have been able to meander past the security fences to experience Toronto life (with the possible exception of Sarkozy's beautiful and recognizable wife, Carla Bruni), while their husbands gossiped about North Korea and the Palestinians and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, they could have gotten a glimpse of the torched police cruisers and the smashed up music store(s)...something to chat about in their barricaded hotel room after hours. How touching. Maybe it went something like this:
Mrs. Harper: Stevie dear. I think you should have asked for more protection from the RCMP, Military, borrowed New York cops and Mayor Miller, cause we were just flabergasted by the mobs of hooligans and pseudo terrorists out there today.
Stephen: But dearie, we already had to leverage ourselves with the Chinese banks to try and spend enough on safety measures for this party.
Mrs. H.: Oh but Stevie, there were these Ninja's that penetrated the Billion Dollar security blanket with their holloween costumes, only to have duped those Swat teams by removing their black outer garments to reveal white T-Shirts and blue jeans, so they could blend in with the Abortion Rights protesters.
Stephen: You mean to say that the high-tech advantage of the police was not enough to prevent this carnage?
Mrs. H.: No, not on Saturday, but Sunday, they really got back at them. They just rounded up everybody in sight and stuffed them into cages, until you and your Presidents and Prime Ministers finished solving the world's problems.
Stephen: See, honey, We did get our money's worth. Now please go to sleep,I have a busy day tomorrow.
