While no protests were “legally” allowed, and despite police activity designed to intimidate potential demonstrations, some discontents found their way to protest the G20 meeting hosted in downtown Pittsburgh.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/09/24/tsr.todd.g20.tear.gas.cnn
CNN got some good video of the police using chemical weapons on anyone who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Too bad – because they’ve denied all the protest permit applications and they’ve been running around town pre-emptively harassing everyone who might potentially pose a theoretical threat.
More information on the Pittsburgh counter-revolution can be found here, but the lesson here is clear: the less coverage dissent gets, the better it is. Why crush protestors with brute force if you can make them quietly back down beforehand?
If someone wants to buy me a ticket to Pennsylvania, I’ll go chant and carry a sign or something. I could use a vacation!