Watching the youtube videos in class and during the presentation I sat thinking thank God my house is nowhere near anyplace significant where people would want to protest…unless Home Depot is the new hot spot for protesters… It’s really scary to think that weapons used by the military on enemies at WAR were being used here on the citizens that the weapons were created to PROTECT. What made it even scarier was the fact that they were being used on young college students. Listening to the speakers talk had me thinking that the government has every right to be sensitive to protests and possible terrorist threats but using methods such as those used at the G20 protests was taking it a little too far, especially since they used these tactics on their own citizens based on an act that is supposed to be protected by the government. It’s insane that the police think that they can use their authority over citizens and suspend rights. It even sounded ridiculous that they punished a guy for tweeting ways to help innocent people escape from a situation that they didn’t deserve to be harassed for simply being in a town.