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Showing posts with label unsung heroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unsung heroes. Show all posts

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Like this?

 Canada spent about a billion dollars on the G8/G20 summits and had an army of 20,000 cops on call with sound cannons, rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, clubs, shields, body armour, horses, firehoses and everything else short of frickin' laser beams and yet couldn't stop 100 skinny little punks in black bandanas and hoodies -- a group they claimed to have infiltrated prior to the summits. (some might argue they had infiltrated them during the summit too)  Not only did they have the gear and manpower, they were even willing to completely make up imaginary laws to allow them to violate the rights of anyone they wanted to. Now it comes out that the cops were told to stand down on Saturday when the black bloc douchebags were having their little tantrum on Younge Street.

The conservative take on this whole thing has been to tar all the protesters with the same brush and blame the thousands of non-violent demonstrators who were exercising their rights as citizen for not doing the police force's job for them and physically confronting and stopping the terrifying masked anarchists on their own.

Like this guy did.

 

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Milton Wolff RIP
Milton Wolff should have been a lot more famous than he was, but he lived a life worth living.
He was the last commander of the American volunteers who fought against the fascists Spain. He served in the SOE and later the OSS arming resistance groups in Europe and Burma during World War Two. He fought for civil rights, sent ambulances to Nicaragua, and stole Ernest Hemmingway's mistress.