The fact that you can't see the difference between scheduled maintenance of the Gardiner, and the illegal hijacking of it demonstrates to me that you're clearly incapable of any real significant thought on this issue, where your sympathies far outweigh what little intelligence you have. You truly are illustrative of the axiom of having all heart and no brains. But that's ok, the LTTE loves you for it.
The fact that you seem more interested in odd groups of initials than that the government of a Commonwealth nation is letting thousands of women and children be slaughtered suggests that you are vile and awful piece of humanity!! I'm quite sure that both sides are as dirty as sin ... but that doesn't mean that the massive violation of human rights that is happening there should be ignored.
And I'm just shocked that any human can compare that to a small traffic jam on a Sunday night!
If this was a demonstration put on by, say, Croatians or Georgians, or whomever, we would *not* be having this discussion.
Hang on - we didn't ignore the situation in Croatia ... we sent troops to Croatia. Georgia was a conflict between 2 countries ... not quite comparable.
No one was calling for mass arrests and deportations after those events, much less implying that the participants somehow aren't "real Canadians".
Of course no one calls for the deportation of farmers - they are white. That people would raise deporatation for such a minor incident suggests that racism is a bigger problem in this country that I thought.
Callling this "genocide" is quite excessive - that term should be reserved exclusively for circumstances where there is a systematic effort to eliminate an ethnic group - which is absent in this case.
Slightly excessive ... it's quite clear the Sri Lankan government isn't taking adequate precautions to avoid large-scale civilian casualties. While not genocide, it's still likely a war-crime; and the laughable cover-up does make one wonder if there is more than just a lack of caution going on.
If these pussys down at the Toronto Police Force feel sensitive about this whole matter, then next time these Tamils want to pull this crap the city should just call in the army and deal with it.
Why do all your posts sound like your a bigot? Are you a bigot?
women and children are the last line of defense.
In a position of danger sure ... we all know that there is no danger is protesting in Toronto - unless your cynical enough think our police force is that messed up. I think the point was, to emphasize that the women and children are the ones being killed in Sri Lanka - not to protect the men in the group (who did seem to be at the front, in the only shot I saw, that looked confrontational at all). Besides the women I saw interviewed during the protest, hardly looked coerced - some seemed quiet upset with relatives who had been murdered.
How can people use transit when streets that the street cars and buses use are closed?
College car would simply look down along Dundas and back up McCaul; Spadina car was looping at King in the north, and Spadina/Queen's Quay in the south. University subway was running; nothing unusual here ... and similiar to what would have been done if there was a street party.
Again, I think I'll go on a hunger strike at Portage & Main to try to get Finland's tax rates lowered...they'll certainly concede by the third or fourth day!
How insensitive! Thousands of people are dead, many in the protest have lost family in the last few days. If Americans were dieing by the thousands in a war somewhere I'm sure we'd see protests in Toronto ... wait a minute, we did.
