Zero tolerance for violent protest
On Tuesday morning, arsonists set off an explosive device at an Ottawa branch of the Royal Bank, and then posted video footage on the website of the Ottawa Independent Media Center. The video also contains the claim, by way of apparent justification for the crime, that RBC sponsored the 2010 Olympics on “stolen indigenous land”; and warns that the same group will be active at the upcoming G20 summit in Toronto and the G8 summit near Huntsville, Ont., where world leaders will “make decisions that will further their policies of exploitation of people and the environment.”
Two days later, in Toronto, a left-wing umbrella group called the “Toronto Community Mobilization Network” gave a press conference in which a grab bag of activist constituencies – aboriginal, socialist, disabled, feminist, union, environmentalist, gay, Arab, and illegal aliens – explained why they would be “mobilizing” against the G8/G20. To their credit, their message contained no threat of criminal violence. But a visit to the Network’s web site yielded a jarring sight: a logo that showed a destroyed CN Tower being used by a mob as a spear to symbolically destroy the G20.
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Are you a woman, person of colour, indigenous person, poor person, queer, trans-gendered or disabled?
If so, the G8/G20 Toronto Community Mobilization team assumes you must sympathize with civic disruption, lawbreaking and maybe even a little good old fashioned terror. They want your help. They’re mobilizing to disrupt the gathering of democratically elected politicians who are meeting in Toronto next month and they assume — just because you’re a woman or a disabled person – that you must hate civilized society as much as they do.
That’s their logo, above.
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Two days later, in Toronto, a left-wing umbrella group called the “Toronto Community Mobilization Network” gave a press conference in which a grab bag of activist constituencies – aboriginal, socialist, disabled, feminist, union, environmentalist, gay, Arab, and illegal aliens – explained why they would be “mobilizing” against the G8/G20. To their credit, their message contained no threat of criminal violence. But a visit to the Network’s web site yielded a jarring sight: a logo that showed a destroyed CN Tower being used by a mob as a spear to symbolically destroy the G20.
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Anti-G20 activists want your help in spreading the hate
Are you a woman, person of colour, indigenous person, poor person, queer, trans-gendered or disabled?
If so, the G8/G20 Toronto Community Mobilization team assumes you must sympathize with civic disruption, lawbreaking and maybe even a little good old fashioned terror. They want your help. They’re mobilizing to disrupt the gathering of democratically elected politicians who are meeting in Toronto next month and they assume — just because you’re a woman or a disabled person – that you must hate civilized society as much as they do.
That’s their logo, above.
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