I’m so upset about Mayor Kelly getting the police to kick out the peaceful Occupy NS demonstrators! The demonstrators moved to Victoria Park out of RESPECT for the veterans who fought for our freedom! How could our city authorities show such DISRESPECT to the people on this day of PEACE!!! I pray for us all–God, please forgive our mayor, our municipal government and the police and please heal them of this sickness that drives them. Great Spirit, please heal and protect the demonstrators and all who support them. Much love and bright blessings to all. —Ingrid
This article appears in Nov 10-16, 2011.
According to the news at noon time, ALL members of City Council unanimously approved the upholding of the no tenting by-law at last Tuesdays yawnfest. The Chief of Police deemed one hour after the Remembrance ceremony had been completed was a good time to uproot the occupiers.
I know ALL and unanimous is wrong, but I aint too smart wiff book lurning stuff
OP, look in a mirror. Is there is a brown wing around your neck? Because after composing this pewling bit of New Age tommyrot that makes Kahlil Gibran read like a Tarantino script, you must be down a quart.
Greetings Ingrid! It is I, the Great Spirit, in the body of a twenty-something girl for the time being! I have received your message and be rest assured, there is an impenetrable force field around all those who wish to occupy. Cans, condoms, donairs and rocks will not be able to break through this shield! I also must comment on the Mayor. His mustache makes him look damn sexy don’t you think? I think that alone excuses any wrong doing he may have done.
Sincerely,
GS.
“ring” – that should read brown ring.
Oh Great Spirit – heal my slipshod 2 fingered typing.
http://www.koffii.com/ProcessImage/4/Profi…
“No Problem, Ivan”
What a joke. At least it will sell a few newspapers and bring people to the webpages. It’s like ‘sweeps week’ for local media, eh?
Fear not Ingrid!
I will not let harm come to those who thirst for peace and justice.
Did I not remove the moneychangers from the temple?
So shall I remove those who trod upon the poor and homeless.
Oh, flake off, touch-hole! Lord Voldemort could kick your ass and not even raise a sweat, you Judeo-Christian snuff-porn zombie.
Mayor Kelly needs to have his diapers changed more regularly.
Jesus as Troll.
Seems legit.
Story checks out, Wheelie.
Eh.. I mean as you all know I’m big on the right to protest, but the camping thing *is* illegal, it’s just kind of shitty that they double crossed them like that. However had the protestors been less trusting and not moved from the square in the first place they’d be seen as the worst people on earth.
well ingrid, they brought all this shit on themselves, by being idiots and assholes, and bitching about moving before. they were given an opportunity, to camp on the commons, but oh no, no free power. then they were asked to go up sgr, they went, but still bitched and whined. let’s see how they like it now, with nothing. guess they will have to rent hotel rooms to protest from now.
but really, can you even feel any pity for their dumb fucking asses. i would have had them gone, a long time ago. viva la homme.
I’m glad they are not camping in public. There cause is good but almost impossible to win. The day was wrong to do it but they needed to be kicked out of the park.
OB, you’re nuts. That was a cheerful moment for most people seeing them scumbags evicted. Good riddens to those useless asshole protesters. Now if we could just scoop them all up and drop them in Cape Breton the problem would be solved.
What the hell? Weren’t they supposed to be out by the 8th? What the eff were they still doing there?They were given tonnes of notice!! Selfish and Disrespectful! Good riddance fake hippies!!
They took plenty of time thinking about moving because it was cozy in GP and free electricity to boot.
They were nudged, pushed and shamed into moving.
uh.. yeah. I agree. I mean i hate those urban fantasy campout fools.. but i agree. “upholding of the no tenting by-law” seems like a cheap trick to end a protest that had become misguided and retarded.
But a protest is a protest. And protesting is part of our freedom. We live in a country where we should feel safe expressing our ideas in any foolish and dumbass way we want to as long as no one is hurt or terribly inconvenienced. They were told they could stay indefinitely and then they were chased away. As much as i hate them, i call no fair on this one.
They were dumb and pretentious and total hypocrites. But they had a right to be there.
If i were a vet who fought for the freedom for any idiot to pull any stupid stunt like this and then saw that happen…? I’d be pissed. I’d be pissed that i defended the rights of a country that are randomly rendered unusable.
No wonder Harper is “president”, with a bunch of slack jawed yokles that think that “in camera” meetings and secret agendas should be the celebrated status quo. So a simple protest, no matter how diluted their message seems to be, is met with police forcibly removing them on Remembrance Day (a peaceful and respectful day), is somehow acceptable to all you right wing blowhards. Nobody sees anything wrong with this? Just because you’re happy with the outcome doesn’t mean we should all sit back and applaud the process. If social justice is their message (which it seems to be), they were certainly served a cold dish of that on Friday. Our spineless piece of shit mayor sits back and washes his hands of the whole deal letting all the blame go to our own “chief wiggum”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that parade square or any other park should be turned into a “hobo camp”, but do we dismiss the lack of tact used by elected government officials to produce any outcome?
I’m also not accusing the police of doing a poor job, a certain amount of force is necessary to remove a group of obstinate people from any space that needs vacating, they’re just doing their job. As far as that goes, they could have given the group a little time to pack, maybe even waited until the rainstorm had passed giving the tents and equipment time to dry out. But I guess the higher-ups decided that they should attack when the group was the smallest and give the least resistance, without a second thought to the irony of the message they would be sending by using remembrance day as eviction day.
In light of what they did to clear the NY protesters last night, police in riot gear, 2:00am with the press locked out and their helicopter not allowed in the airspace above the park, our little eviction seems pretty tame. This does not excuse the behavior of a shameless city council lead by the most spineless man alive.
Shame on all of you for touting the outcome as an excuse for fundamentally flawed process!!!!!
two for the price of one