Free Speech to be Curtailed at Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver

[efoods]Editor’s note: In Canada, the Gestapo drops by your home if you plan to protest against the government.

In the flush of bidding for and winning the right to host the Olympics, nobody talked about how staging them might mean limiting civil liberties.

It’s only now, with seven months until the 2010 Winter Games begin, that organizers and compliant politicians are revealing plans to make it more difficult to exercise our fundamental constitutional rights to free speech, peaceful assembly and free expression.

For months now, police have been knocking on the doors of known activists and tracking them down in their neighbourhoods to “chat” about their Olympic protest plans. But that’s only part of it.

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This article was posted: Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 4:54 pm

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