Militarizing Police and Deploying Armed Forces: As Elites and Protesters Converge, the State Prepares for War http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/blog/crustby/3689

The increased militarization of local and national police forces, along with the normalization of military units working alongside law enforcement agencies in a domestic context, signals a decreasing legitimacy on the part of the state. Efforts to stifle democratic dissent in public spaces outside large ministerial summits, in which a few elites generate a policy apparatus governing the global economy in an explicit undemocratic fashion, are being met with increasing opposition.

On the other hand, Canadian military and police forces, holding a monopoly on the use of coercive force (violence), that continue to deploy with billion dollar budgets to protect elites making decisions in the interests of capital and profit, also lends increasing legitimacy to a mass democratic movement dedicated to opposing this apparatus of injustice.

Tens of thousands of people, willing to put their bodies on the line in the face of violent repression, are sending a clear message to the state, that passion and a yearning for justice will win out in the end against a short-sighted quest for profits.