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Kate 08:59 on 2020-02-13 Permalink Reply  

• David100 11:48 on 2020-02-13 Permalink

  A real piece of work, this guy.

  Obviously those moronic vandals should be tossed into the slammer for a spell to get them some perspective. But it’s a (very minor) police and judicial matter, not something important.

• Chris 12:39 on 2020-02-16 Permalink

  David100, since you seem to be agreeing with him, why is he “a real piece of work”? Honest question.

• david100 18:25 on 2020-02-17 Permalink

  I’m not agreeing with him at all.

  Obviously, the vandals are morons.

  But I don’t agree that this is a matter that the city should condemn.

• Michael Black 18:46 on 2020-02-17 Permalink

  The story I saw in the Gazette this morning seemed to suggest he’s concerned with “invasion” type activity, rather than the specific cause. Going into a place is different from standing outside with signs.

  Come November it will be forty years since Tooker organized such a thing, at a fundraiser/meet in a church basement for a federal candidate in Outremont. They weren’t happy we showed up, and I would never do it again, it did cross a line.

  How to protest is separate from the cause. Over the past twenty years there has been a shift in protest, to be obnoxious or obstructing, but without a willingness to pay the consequences.

  Not different from people thinking they need to wear masks, or block traffic and then run off.

  Sixty years ago this month, students sat down at lunch counters to try to be served. They either got lunch, were harrassed or arrested. They knew what they wanted was right, so they could use that alone. Gandhi’s truth force.

  John Lewis was one of them, still talking about nonviolence. He’s built to last, but is being treated for cancer.