Thursday, May 31, 2012

One-Cut Canada

"Quebec protests put government on defense; Emergency laws possible as youth fight tuition hikes" by Sean Farrell  |  Associated Press, May 18, 2012

MONTREAL - Facing the most sustained student protest in Canadian history, Quebec’s provincial government weighed emergency legislation Thursday aimed at ending rallies and demonstrations against rising tuition costs.  

Kids can't protest in the "free" West?

Authorities said 122 were arrested late Wednesday as thousands of demonstrators spilled into the streets of Montreal, some smashing bank windows and hurling objects at police.  

It's getting to that point everywhere.   

"The Five Boxes of Liberty
  1. The Moving Box—right of association, in particular territorially via migration
  2. The Soap Box—right of free speech
  3. The Ballot Box—right to a voice in your government
  4. The Jury Box—right to a trial by jury of your peers
  5. The Ammunition Box—right to threaten or use appropriate violence in self-defense
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You see where we are standing right now? 

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." 

What an incredibly perceptive man.

When are you f***ing leaders and the elite money-junkies you front for going to listen?

Protests have been ongoing for three months....

And this is the first -- and last -- I've seen of it in my Boston Globe.

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Related: Bus attacker can leave mental hospital

I think I'll drive myself.