When I watched clips of the protesters, I felt heartened! From the clips I saw, there were different groups advocating or protesting different issues. It didn’t matter to me what the issues are, or what the viewpoint being advocated was. I think it’s fantastic that people are willing to march, carry placards, SPEAK UP, talk to each other, demonstrate, do more than whine about whatever the issue.
I didn’t see any violence and if there was some, I don’t condone it. I’m talking about just demonstrating. I think it’s great!
I remember what non-violent civil disobedience helped accomplish in the 60s!
LLeRay, actually, there are stories of undercover policemen in a demonstration in Ontario that did vandalism and threw rocks to blame the demonstrators.
There were also fires in the 1960’s that were set by the RCMP and blamed on the FLQ (a violent separatist organisation, like the ETA or IRA of Quebec)
believecommonsense about 15 years ago
When I watched clips of the protesters, I felt heartened! From the clips I saw, there were different groups advocating or protesting different issues. It didn’t matter to me what the issues are, or what the viewpoint being advocated was. I think it’s fantastic that people are willing to march, carry placards, SPEAK UP, talk to each other, demonstrate, do more than whine about whatever the issue. I didn’t see any violence and if there was some, I don’t condone it. I’m talking about just demonstrating. I think it’s great! I remember what non-violent civil disobedience helped accomplish in the 60s!
CorosiveFrog Premium Member about 15 years ago
LLeRay, actually, there are stories of undercover policemen in a demonstration in Ontario that did vandalism and threw rocks to blame the demonstrators.
There were also fires in the 1960’s that were set by the RCMP and blamed on the FLQ (a violent separatist organisation, like the ETA or IRA of Quebec)
That’s what we call a false flag operation.