I’m staring out my living room window Sunday, catching my breath between visits to the detention centre, and suddenly a police van rolls up and nabs three people right in front of my house.

The mayor wants you to move past the G20 weekend already. The PM brushes off human rights violations and glibly attributes days of clashes to a “thuggish element.” It’s doubtful that he’s talking about the police.

A new world order is upon us, and the tip of that spear lanced the T-dot last weekend on both sides of the security perimeter.

I know The Matrix has become a kind of clichéd metaphor for progressives and radicals. Those of us who took the red pill (by reading, say, Naomi Klein) some time ago woke up to the evils of neo-liberal capitalism and how it’s supported by the police and much of the media.

 “TorontoPolice is now following your tweets on Twitter.”