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| Permalink View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H4) on 9/30/09: For G-20, Pittsburgh became a police state Quicklink submitted by Michael Collins (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| Government officials decided a massive, preemptive police presence was necessary to avoid the raucous demonstrations that marred past economic summits. They established a virtual police state that quickly extinguished any spark of dissent, and a federal court ruling gave them free rein to do so. |
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