The Deep Tragedy of G20

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Today’s Blog Post
The Deep Tragedy of G20

Yesterday as I was in the Chinese Restaurant at 2 PM I had no idea of what was taking place just a few miles south of where we sat. Outside the restaurant there was a festival taking place with hundreds of Chinese folk celebrating. It was a party. Our food was delicious and the day had been wonderful.

Earlier we attended a wonderful church service at the Global Kingdom Ministries. The music was amazing, the Pastor was on fire and the dozens of old friends would not stop hugging my wife and me! We had come home again to people that loved us no matter what! I am still glowing from these hugs!

And little did I realize that I would be drawn toward the Black Bloc. After writing about the Idiots – yesterday… I found an email in my In Box from someone connected/concerned for these folks.

Meet “Marvin McLean” who sent me a link to a site that is declaring that all that the Black Bloc did was either infiltrated by Police or led by the Police. Marvin pointed to the site out of concern. But he did it through the “Pray for Leaders Today” Blog Post that I do each day – in my Ontario Provincial Chaplaincy roll (the other job that I have besides Misty Hollow Carving – see http://prayforleaderstoday.blogspot.com/  )

I watched closely all that I could of the TV and listened to the radio reports last evening as we returned from the day in Toronto. My heart ached for all the folk involved – and specially the hundreds that were arrested. The last report that I heard it was close to 450. Today it was stated that since June 18, 562 people have been arrested.

Each one is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, or friend. There have been more that 2000 affected deeply by these arrests. Lives have been changed and the families deeply hurt.

Why?

Attitudes, strong willed people and crisis moments that have led us to believe that some terrible people were involved in doing some terrible things.

Now Marvin points to the possibility that our Police have done some of the damage to get others going. He points to the Web Site that had some evidence of the Quebec City riots where they found that the Police were actually involved… and the evidence was the shoes that the protesters were wearing! Please read http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19928  for more information.

WHY did it all happen? From my simple and sidelined approach it is all about accusations. Unfounded and unproved accusations. One side has screamed insults that have stirred the other side. One pushed and another shoved. Then someone did something stupid.

Now someone else is cleaning up.

My Ontario MPP leadership will be paying for this big time in the political world. They passed a quiet law that allowed the police to do whatever was needed in the up coming Protest – back at the beginning of June. That was just discovered this past weekend.

I can report that out community is deeply bruised by what has happened. It will take some time for this to heal. They are cleaning up today – quickly – as we want tourists to return.

That is kind of like hoping the song birds will return after the War is over and the last cannon has been fired!

My prayer today is… “God help us all… leadership… protesters… and public. We need your understanding of Peace.”

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc
http://prayforleaderstoday.blogspot.com/
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-27/police-arrest-224-g-20-protesters-day-after-violence.html