Police have been harassing protesters and their families in the years up to and including the winter games.

Homelessness has increades almost 400% since vancouver BOUGHT the olympics.

riot 2010 tags have been more and more visible.

Police have requested 40KM of hightech security fencing with cctv and motion sensors to set up security zones around venues.

Parking rates have skyrocketed and include increased taxes to make up for the lost parking revenue due to closed roads and OLYMPIC ONLY lanes.

The cost to taxpayers is $9 billion and rising while huge corporations cash in.

public dissent grew stronger and stronger as the games drew closer

At least 12,500 cops and soldiers have been deployed to canada's largest 'peacetime' security operation ever.

Moving through the city has become nearly impossible with checkpoints and road closures.

the games commit almost every social injustice you can think of, and has united activists of all causes into one front.

Thousands attend anti-olympic marches and rallies that are either ignored or condemned by big media.

The 1980 Olympics were boycotted by the US and Canada because the soviets were at war in afghanistan. The 2010 games are being used to promote canada's involvemnet in the afghan war.

Helicopters are constantly overhead, the occasional fighter jet buzzes the city, battle ships and scuba divers are offshore or in the harbour.

Pigs love donuts.

the olympic torch relay has met protests in every province and is sometimes forced to find a new route around blockades.

A small amount of people at one protest used black bloc tactics.

These tactics include destruction of property by a few people dressed the same as many, avoiding identification and showing support to the common cause.

The Bay department store was a target because of its sponsorship of the games and its genocidal practices in colonial times.

An integrated police force called VISU was created specifically for the games, combining vancouver cops, rcmp, military, coast guard, border services, intelligence and emergency services.

VISU has admitted that the terrorism threat is low and has turned their powers against dissenting citizens to justify their $1 BILLION taxpayer funded security budget.

although the ioc, vanoc and city officials have said they will allow protests, security clampdowns have silenced many.

The mainstream media has condemned the protesters' property destruction as violent and dismissed all dissenting views.

Meanwhile the police assault innocent protesters. The media calls the protesters violent. I guess a beating is normal protocol for someone who broke a window.

The police showed up with M-16 assault rifles to break up a protest.

The VPD and RCMP are two particularly violent forces, each responsible for many assaults, rapes and murders.

Police arrested 13 people. None of which were responsible for any damage or violence. Some are held illegally in deplorable conditions.

Police would not say wether the guns were armed with live ammo or rubber bullets.

The police refused to answer if the assembly was lawful or unlawful. they then pinned people in and arrested dispersing people.