A one-hour radio talk show blasting "Police State Canada" aired on the FM waves in metropolitan Ottawa on Thursday September 9, 2010 (CHUO 89.1 FM Ottawa).
The sound track is podcast on the show's (5 O'Clock Train) blog:
http://trainradio.blogspot.com/2010/09/police-state-canada-as-per-g20-to...
We need to publicly make these criticisms of our police state and we need to reintroduce the relevant vocabulary from the 1960s. One central incorrect underlying assumptions of the state's "conspiracy to interfere with police" G20-Toronto charges against Alex Hundert and others is that the police were acting lawfully! The opposite is true and all present had a moral duty to intervene to mitigate the police thuggery and mass violations of civil rights.
The Train went solo with host Denis Rancourt because of an interference by Police State Canada.
The planned guest was G20 arrestee and First Peoples rights activist and author/reporter Alex Hundert, to be interviewed from house arrest by phone. Hundert had been warned by Provincial Police that he could be arrested if he spoke to the media.
The day of our scheduled CHUO radio interview, there was an "emergency" and Mr. Hundert had to appear in court. He could not be reached for the interview at the scheduled time and he was not able to communicate with CHUO to give an update of his situation.
Therefore, Train host Denis Rancourt reported what he could and provided an analysis of Police State Canada in relation to both University of Ottawa campus police and G20-Toronto.
The show is peppered with the political history music of iconic Wobbly Utah Phillips from his CD album Fellow Workers. The show ends with Utah's line "... I'm a pacifist but I admire her spunk..." from his song "shoot or stab them".
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