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Hmmm, should I or should I not explore the metaphors lurking within the violent protests and the subsequent lockdown in Toronto in the area of the G20 Summit? I really do not want to because…

By the time the Summit got under way, I was already weary of the endless news reports about the preparations and what we all should and should not do.

The draconian security measures made me wonder what was becoming of “the truth north strong and FREE”.

The cost of staging the G20 Summit makes me feel ill when I think of all the needy social programs on which that money could have been much better spent.

I don’t even know who the G20 countries are. I went out of my way not to know.

I gave up believing some time ago (measured in years) that a large group of politicians gathered together could accomplish anything other than staged photo opps and agreements to disagree.

I cringe at the thought of any Canadian city being turned into a war zone.

I am a proud Canadian and would rather that my country be known for democracy, open arms and wide open spaces rather than a fenced-in convention centre, burning cars and looted storefronts.

Canada Day is only 5 days away and will now be tainted by what will probably come to be called Black Saturday.

Violence is the inevitable outcome of a clash of ideologies where both sides are all too quick to lose sight of what they were arguing about to begin with.

No, I really don’t want to delve into the metaphors lurking within the violent protests and the subsequent lockdown in Toronto in area of the G20 Summit. Instead I will point my car out of the city to meander through the fields indulging in the metaphors that abound when butterflies soar, dragonflies dance and bullfrogs croak in the marshes.

Not all metaphors are inspiring. Some just make you want to shake your head and wonder at the stupidity of mankind. It doesn’t have to be this way – and yet so often it is.

Let’s please turn the page on the G20 Summit as quickly as possible. No post-mortems. No in-depth news reports. No special commissions investigating what went wrong. The sooner we put the whole fiasco behind us the better.

~ Michael Robert Dyet is the author of “Until the Deep Water Stills – An Internet-enhanced Novel” – double winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards 2009. Visit Michael’s website at www.mdyetmetaphor.com or the novel online companion at www.mdyetmetaphor.com/blog.

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