So Toronto police are "monitoring" the writing & broadcasting of @DesmondCole, a critic of police violence. You hear that silence? It's the Canadian journalists who love to bleat about free speech.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/police-monitored-black-lives-matter-toronto-protesters-in-2016-documents-show-1.4645628 …
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But that is, I presume, ‘monitoring’ that goes beyond making press clippings of what journalists write in the paper about the police.
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But that's exactly where democracy can begin to break down. When journalists do their job in calling out abuses by those in power and those in power collect clippings, it takes very little to move to active surveillance and then arrests for "subversive" activities. 1/2
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