Goodonya, Toronto. You forced PC insanity on all of Canada and now it's biting you.
Goodonya.

This could only have been better if it happened during the Gay Pride Parade.

Oz nailed it, you Toronto folks voted for Peeair, and here is the results, this is just starting TO, get used to it.

As a law abiding citizen, I explicity convey to the government a monopoly on the use of force to use accordingly in the pursuit of peace and justice.

So I'm getting a little tired of groups using force to get their message across: Indians at Caledonia, Tamils in Ottawa and Toronto. Who's next? A precedent has been set.

I can't help but 'juxtapose' the image of the Polish man at the Vancouver a/p with these protesters: one unarmed man tasered repeatedly by four officers but large groups causing economic mayhem go untouched. Not a fair comparison maybe but the optics aren't good.

Exactly what kind of sanctions are they protesting?

Toronto as in Toronto, Canada?

I'm having a hard time believing no one could find a big snowplow to clear the road.

Why is no one promising to bring up an issue of imposing sanctions on the criminals, bloking 400 series of highways?

Is ANY ONE going to be held responsible?

Did police issue a requirement to disperse?

Was anyone arrested? Was anyone charged?

If not, I want Firearms Act to be scrapped now, I want no registration of handguns and I want my full autos and SPAS12 back. And don't tell me it's a PUBLIC SAFETY issue, government!

Snowplows. We don't need ours right now.

The Canada.com article says 3 were arrested. If 5000 people were breaking the law, why were only 3 arrested?

We should do what we did with the Dukhabors. Set up some nice camps way out in the woods.

we should buy one of those scrap boats that get sent to India to be beeched and torn apart, load these fools on it, captain by P'Iggy, and problem solved for us and the P'Iggy:-)))

get the hell back where you came from. keep your war out of canada. if you think your people ' not my people,' need to be free then go and take up arms in your home country. you are not welcome here.

SO Iggy did what Stockwell Day was unable to do. It's time for lame duck Harper to get out of the way and let Iggy be PM.

What would you say would have happened if the same number of anti-abortion people, or perhaps pro-Israel supporters had done the same?
I think we all know that the police would have intervened en masse. But, of course, I am sure that the fact that the Tamils are demonstrating in Toronto (NDP mayor, Liberal riding, Liberal Premier) has nothing to do with the fact that these demonstrations are illegal and yet the police is doing nothing to clear them up.

My own take, earlier this AM:

Special, Lawbreaking Folks Get Big Media Coverage

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/05/special-lawbreaking-folks-get-big-media.html

When a million ordinary, cross-partisan, cross-ideological American citizens nationwide peacefully, lawfully, unobtrusively protest the policies and behavior of the U.S. government, they get ignored and then insulted by the Press with vile, vulgar, homoerotic smears.

But when a special class of people unlawfully assemble, disrupting public services without permission, and support terrorists and murderers, they get favorable Press coverage.

qwerty1, THOSE 3 were arrested for assaulting a cop. I was rather asking about the arrests for causing mischief, walking in traffic, refusal to disperse, being a public nuisance, disregarding orders of police etc.

If the duck hunters were to protest confscation of their property and violation of their righs in this manner, there would be snipers on the roofs. But these are just peaceful LTTE, so everything goes.

Man, am I ever glad I moved out of that rat hole Toronto! Funny thing, usually these Tamil protests are led by a throng of Liberal M.P.'s but not this time. I guess Ignatowski put out the word and they will use these protests to smear the Cons instead.

guy - Toronto doesn't have any snow plows. They get a skif of snow they ask for the military to be brought in to save their a$$es. Yes, the military on our city streets - you can't make this stuff up.

Oh wait - the Lieberals were in power when that happened. Move along now - rien a voir ici.

This is the bed that's been made in "multi-cultural" Canada, and now we get to lay in it.

Aaron, I'm in full agreement with you. Why were there no arrest for mischief, walking on the freeway, refusal to disperse, public nuisance?

A bag of 1000 tie wraps cost $22.00. If I lived in the Toronto area I would buy 5 bags and hand them off to the local police force and tell them to enforce the law.

let Iggy be PM.
~Bob at May 11, 2009 10:08 AM

His party has to fund, fight, and win an election first.

I'm sure you'll help with the funding, Bob. The LPC are probably up to their lyin' eyes in red ink, though.
Just a thought.

This is a clear case of domestic terrorism and the whole group of them should have been arrested and put on a boat back to Sri Lanka. I'm sure that there would have been no difficulty in finding a few thousand volunteers who would have been happy to pick up a baseball bat and wade into the crowd to show these terrorists what ordinary Canadians think of their tactics.

This is the liberals problem; these people are the liberal party of canada's people; to be used for votes just like they use the MSM to cover up the liberals' own corruption.

WHY DO YOU THINK THE LIBERALS NEVER BOTHERED TO RISE AND VOTE FOR THE ANTI-TERRORIST ACT BILL' neither did the NDP OR THE BLOC. You, your family and the safety of canada is definitely not in the OPPOSITION PARTIES' and their sad pathetic lame NATIONAL MEDIA's AGENDA.

That's right folks, the liberal party IS the one and only party the MSM will support instead of you, canada and flag.

What the media refuse to tell you-nothing unusual, is that the Conservative party of canada which the MSM despises and hates, are the very party-the only party in the house of commons(HOC)
TO RISE AND VOTE FOR THE ANTI TERRORIST ACT BILL.

And isn't it nice of Iggy to be so nice to the terrorist supporters? So Iggy would impose sanctions against SL? But he wouldn't impose sanctions against Iran, China, "Palestine", etc... What a moron!

Again, the narratives of both sides, the Tamil and the Sri Lanka are so heavily embedded and edited within perspectives, narratives and personal views that it is impossible for an impartial observer to come to any conclusion about which side is 'right'. From what we can see, both sides are about equal in atrocities but that's as far as I can go.

However, the 'logic' of the Tamils is illogical, and the agenda of Ignatieff is cynical, manipulative and lacks integrity.

The Tamil, again, have no right to take a publicl hostage by blocking a major highway and thus preventing people from work/home access. They have chosen the Rule of Force versus the Rule of Law.

They have no right to insist that our government operate by their Force and their ideas - and impose 'sanctions' on Sri Lanka. That sets a precedent where our govt moves into being controlled by mob force rather than the rule of law, debate, analysis based on facts.

Their narratives cannot take precedence to the right of Canadians to a government operating by due process, the rule of law and facts.

To be told by a Tamil that they are justified in holding a city's commuters hostage because 'these are desperate times and it calls for desperate measures' is an abuse of the public. THEY have no right to themselves decide both that the situation justifies these measures and, that holding a population hostage is a valid action.

Then, they tell us that Canada is in Afghanistan - and therefore 'ought to be' in Sri Lanka. No, the two are not comparable. Afghanistan is a NATO and UN decision; made according to the rule of law. It is not about a civil war, and we were not forced into Afghanistan by any group blockading a major highway. Our decision was, under Harper (not Chretien who ignored parliament)made in parliament.

Their narratives of grandmothers killed, of 'concentration camps' (???); etc are without evidence. Again, what puzzles me is their constant contact with people in Sri Lanka, in contrast to the lack of contact of people in the MSM with anyone there.

As for Ignatieff, he's pure slime. The Tamil use the people of Toronto, and Ignatieff uses both the Tamil and Torontonians. For votes.

Remember Ignatieff's equally cynical and manipulative tactic to get the Quebec vote, with his proposal of "Quebec is a nation'. Now, he is 'forgetting' the sponsorship scandal and the fact that the Liberals owe Canadians over 40 million dollars.
And he's 'forgetting' that he signed the Coalition agreement.

As for the Tamil, nothing justifies their attempt to move our government into one run by mob agendas rather than the rule of law.

BEST STUFF from CBCpravda

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourbeststuff/2009/05/tamil_protest_in_toronto.html

protests in Caledonia dont get much airplay

CBCpravda , Mouthpeice for the Lieberal Party All the Time.

Just one more example of Canada’s broken immigration refugee system which our conservative in name only (CINO) government refuses to alter. Our left plunging PM and Immigration Minister would rather suck up to the immigrants for votes than protect citizens from these unproductive, terrorist supporting immigrants who frequently costs Canadian tax payers more than they are worth.

Many immigration and/or refugee professionals are calling on our political leaders to instigate a comprehensive discussion pursuant to our immigration, refugee, and/or multicultural policies. These specialists contend that we must diminish our immigration/ refugee numbers , since their economic value is extremely limited. They suggest that the numbers must be decreased down to a level which we can actually screen potential immigrants and refugees more adequately. All agree that governments must stop caving into pro-immigration groups’ demands in order to gain votes.

Decreasing immigration levels at least during the recession years would save the government millions of dollars which they could then return to Canadian taxpayers who would spend the money and stimulate the economy. A permanent decrease in the payroll tax would get to workers immediately and would instantaneously accelerate the economic recovery.

A further advantage of decreasing immigrants numbers and more competent screening would be to make the streets safer from murdering gangs.

George J. Borjas, wrote in the Journal of Economic Perspective that “Most studies suggest that modern immigration delivers virtually zero net benefits to native-born Americans. Almost all the economic surplus created by immigration is captured by the migrants themselves.” The Economic Council of Canada agreed, and stated that “There is little or not effect of immigration on the per capita income of existing residents…..A historical perspective gives little or no support to the view that immigration is needed for economic prosperity.”

These experts claim that we need to discuss our multicultural policy since new arrivals are not attempting to become Canadians. Michael Adams writes in "Unlikely Utopia”“….Canadians is indeed starting to worry that this country may have bitten off more than it can chew when it comes to the integration of newcomers of vastly different religious, cultural, and ideological backgrounds. It is precisely that worry, and the more exaggerated version of it which claims that Canada is a power keg of ethnic strife waiting to explode……Some people are inclined to think that Canada has to much immigration and that once immigrants are installed here, they’re not encouraged aggressively enough to become Canadian and adopt the secular, liberal, consumerist values of the majority……the idea that ethnic enclaves are springing up in Canadian cities, that newcomer and second-generation youth are ready to explode into violence, that an ever-growing population of people not only don’t care to adapt to Canadian life but don’t much like Canada at all…..”

It is essential that our political candidates and the press got resolute about our failed immigration/refugee and multicultural policies and those they instigate a discussion pursuant to some of the more obvious problems such as numbers, types, and the lack of screening to ensure that we only accept responsible citizens.

Typical Toronto. We call in the army to clear snow, but we can't get a few thousand scofflaws off a highway.

It is long past time for the West to shake off Torontostan and the destructive multi-culti baggage it has accumulated, thanks to Librano political schemes.

If and when the West will decide to get rid of Toronto, may I request that the border be located just East of Bruce Trail?

I've read that they plan to return again tonight.
I hope they do.

That will show everybody what a great help it was for Iggy to have that little chat with them.

Iggy is the kind of man that sees a parade(or protest) going down the street and jumps in front of it and pretends he is leading it.

What a maroon.

It's an occupation.

Why is it wrong (unless the Left is in power in America/Canada) to "occupy" Iraq and Afghanistan, in the eyes of the brain-dormant Left and the Big Media, but it's perfectly "rightful" for Aboriginal and Tamil terrorists to occupy Caledonia and Toronto?

Makes me glad I don't currently reside in the Ontarioccupied territories.

Let us hope that millions of canadian voters are seeing who vote liberal, and who fund the liberals. What have the tamils ever invented except the suicide vest.
I would like the government to stop funding NOW of all multicultural groups or programs and ban them from coming to Canada. I would like all those protestors deported ASAP and all their assets seized, and all familily members sent back with them. Liberals support the abuse of nannies but also support terrorists.

If these little brown people are trying to garner sympathy for their cause, they sure have a funny way of going about it.
If it had to happen, it couldn't have happened in a better place. We may still see a few of them Rachel Corried yet by a handful of disgruntled commuters.

Actually the suggestion of a snow-plow definitely has merit.

Iggy is a disgrace. Give in to their demands is the way to go..right Iggy? You Liberal crank.

These people deliberately put their children in harms way by bringing them not only to a protest, but onto a major highway in the city. This is an offshoot of giving them an inch when they took over University. On both fronts, the police should have moved in swiftly and more so when they took over the highway. The jails should be overflowing this monday morning and the CAS should be called in to investigate the parents who would place their children in harms way.

Maryt...do you have hopes the people of Toronto will now see the association between oppotunistic Libs, and lawbreakers(Tamil, Hezbolla and Brenda Martin to name a few)The dreamer in me would like to think so, too.
However, the skeptic in me wonders if the organisers of this illegal blockade had any communication with Lib 'connectors' in order to set up the Iggy as the 'problem solver'.
Just saying.

Praise the Lord and pass the pepper spray.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer city, enjoy Miller!

This is exactly why so many Canadians hate many of our 'little brown' immigrants who come here with an ax to grind while dressing funny and not speaking English.

We don't care about their homeland. We have our own assholes to cope with in our homeland ...

Deport them all!

Nothing lost from the Con perspective. The tamil communit was already organzed to vote Liberal.

The risk is to the Liberal's should the community be peceived to have captured them.

As for commuters...they come from outside 416, generally, and this is the ground that cons seek, and the Libs try to protect.

The push is on and the Tamils are now claiming victimhood, I am sure the Sri Lankan government isnt being "nice". Of course the Tigers were/are a pretty nasty bunch. The tamils would be better to cut the Tigers loose. But Toronto was the off shore haven of the Tigers, like Boston for the IRA.

The faster the Sri Lankan government completes its military victory the better for one and all.

"SO Iggy did what Stockwell Day was unable to do."

And what exactly was that? Promise to bring up the matter of sanctions with the government? Big deal! What a major accomplishment. Just another cynical vote-garnering tactic. Ignatieff has absolutely zero integrity and operates just like any other Liberal...seize power by whatever means possible.

Where is Children's Aid in all this mess? Parents who march their children up an on ramp to the Gardiner Expressway and then push them to the front should be investigated for child abuse. Where is the Toronto Children's Aid?!

Given that the reasons given for these demos and oh so faithfully parroted by the local MSM have zero logic and make very little sense anyway it might pay to look elsewhere:

Ruby coverage dries up and blows away.

Tamil pro Tiger leadership keeps community under block voting control by getting everyone else pissed off at Tamils. This postpones the day of reckoning for them from those less enthralled Tamils who have a few questions about the useless slaughter back home and wonder if supporting terrorists and gang extortion is just a bit too pro-Liberal.

Iggy now wondering if the whole Ruby and the Tamils thing is really a total Harper plot. If the media can't showcase some obscure Conservative MP demanding that they all be shot and deported, there is masterful evil afoot.

"SO Iggy did what Stockwell Day was unable to do."

Apparently the protestors aren't smart enough to figure out that iggy can run his mouth without consequences or action, but Stockwell Day is responsible for his words and promises,and that's why he doesn't make them lightly.
I heard the OPP was being deployed and immediately assumed the situation was hopeless because of their inactivity in Caledonia. Kind of a shame to see a once proud force lose their reputation.

Add up the cost for all the police, ambulance etc and bill the Tamil Organization.

If they refuse to pay, start seizing property.

The following from the first linked news report is pure BS. "police were caught off guard after demonstrators winding their way from University Avenue to Queen’s Park suddenly stormed up the ramp at Spadina Avenue" The Spadina on ramp is about 3 miles south of QP and one major block to the west.

Water cannons and rubber bullets should be in order the next time these idiots get out of hand. After all, these Tamils are rank cowards who, instead of staying in their homeland to stand up for what they claim is a noble cause, fled halfway around the world to get away from it. Now they want Canada to do something that they themselves didn't have the balls to do.

Maybe we could stop these disruptions by the govt putting a moratorium on Tamil immigration.
Tamil leadership obviously organizes this political extortion. Why should we as a country keep bringing in more agitators? They think they can play hardball by disrupting the lives of other Canadians. We can play hardball back and listen to them whine when we don't let them bring in thousands more of their relatives.

What these Tamils should do is picket and cause traffic tie ups in every Conservative held riding in Toronto....Oh Wait.

Remember back in the days when cops were just Irish thugs with giant clubs and rubber bullets?

Sadly, I'm too young. Please tell me about the days before Trudeau wrecked Canada. I'd like to hear about the time we had a country which worked.

Good thing we give out endless amounts of free "government" money to every loser, terrorist and criminal which defrauds the "refugee" system.

I'd hate to think all of these terrorist supporters would be too busy working to attend. After all, how else are you supposed to shut down the economy which pays for your free cash?

"Bam" the terrorist, now go to sleep.

Just shows you,no one can accuse Nanny mGuinty of not being fair.An Indian is an Indian no matter where they reside in the liberal rubble of Ontario.

Looking at the picture makes me wonder who actually blocked the freeway the Tamils or the police. Oh Toronto, couldn't happen to a nicer place.

Even Chretien wouldn't have tolerated this kind of crap. Hell, he pepper sprayed protesting students who objected to a mad dictator from Indonesia and the students stayed behind the barricades.

That being said, it was that creep who let all these terrorist supporters into the country...

Oh, well. If it's gonna happen anywhere, Toronto is the place which deserves it most.

The temptation is huge for me to simply say "Tamils screwing up Toronto and making the citizens of the Centre of the Universe unhappy? Wonderful. They deserve each other. Couldn't happen to two better bunches".

The socialist Nanny's have spoken with their "sentiments".

D & D Tamil Tiger Murderer's Removal Service at your service.

D & D's Civics Lesson: "there is a "right way and a wrong way to protest.""
...-

"Mayor David Miller said this morning that occupying major routes such as the Gardiner Expressway isn't acceptable. Premier Dalton McGuinty echoed the Mayor's sentiments, saying this morning that there is a "right way and a wrong way to protest.""
(TORedStar)

I have always thought that the British considered interference of the Queens Highway's to be an especially high crime, and those convicted for theft (highway men) were promptly executed. The lesser crime of blocking, stopping, or tolling (without authority)where sent to Australia.

It would seem those laws would still be on the Books.... Cuba could sub for Australia & they have a prison looking for inmates....

JMHO

Oh the irony. Our office (which is in Toronto) is currently involved in a business continuity test. That means we get to work from home today because of some imagined swine flu pandemic. I don't think our business continuity planners ever imagined this contingency.

Stephen: "But Toronto was the off shore haven of the Tigers, like Boston for the IRA."

Boston at least made sense since there had been a large Irish population there for a century; there were bound to be people sympathetic to IRA goals. Toronto had no existing Tamil population for the Tigers to find similar sympathies. Instead, we brought in Tamils by the planeload without vetting and are now shocked, shocked to find that we are home to terrorists and/or their sympathizers.

I work with 16 Sri Lankan Tamil engineers in the GTA. They are all Canadian citizens. They all have EE and SC degrees from Waterloo or UofT. They are smart and hardworking and understand the value of an education. A co-worker of mine, a blond blue-eyed guy from Sask, who obtained his EE degree from the UofSask married a Sri Lankan Tamil who was also a co-worker of mine and they just had their first child.

When I listen to their arguments and look at the history of this conflict I realize that they have a point. Most Tamils actually live in the Indian state beside Sri Lanka. These Tamils are not trying to separate from India because India respects their culture and language. (Almost every state in India has their own language and culture. For example, in Goa, Portuguese is still allowed and Christianity is respected as their culture. All states though have to respect India's 2 national languages, Hindi and English, and the Indian rule of law.) In Sri Lanka this respect for Tamils does not exist and they are being systemically undermined and destroyed as a culture and people. (The British have a lot to do with this.)

I think they have to do something, including breaking the law, to get the attention of the world.

I live in Durham region. A lot of Scottish GM retirees around here. They like to go to British Pubs and see football and booze up. Some of these guys refuse to become Canadian citizens yet they all get Canadian benefits and make a bundle on their GM pensions. Every second one of them has a daughter or son with out of wedlock kids and these kids will be doing joe jobs for the rest of their lives or living on welfare. (I would like to see these guys shipped back to Scotland.) The funny thing though is that every British/Irish Pub/Restaurant in Durham is owned by Sri Lankan Tamils (actually almost any pub/restaurant in Durham). These are the Tamils that can't make it to University. There is one thing for sure - their kids will succeed in school and make it. Do yourself a favour and talk to a Tamil.

Let's hope they brought their own porta-potties if they intend to stay a while. During the Ottawa kerfuffle, they were using cardboard boxes to defecate in. And, they conveniently left them strewn over Parliament Hill. Businesses close to Parliament Hill also had their facilities "overused".

Never mind, it cost the City of Ottawa approximately only $900,000 for extra policing and cleaning up.

"What the media refuse to tell you-nothing unusual, is that the Conservative party of canada which the MSM despises and hates, are the very party-the only party in the house of commons(HOC)"

Good point Jen

It is clear to me that in the eyes of left thinking people (c)onservatives are the enemy of the state. Terrorists, criminals and communists nations are not nearly as dangerous as (c)onservatives to them. I doubt conservatives will be able to overcome their apathy and open their eyes to this reality. Unfortunately our police forces and our judicial system have been hijacked and corrupted by the left and are now tools for our socialist masters. Conservatives hold police in high esteem; yet, fail to hold them to account for their blatant bias towards the left.

The liberals will not lose any votes regardless of today’s events, or any other. It's shear lunacy to expect the citizens of Ontario or Quebec to make the right choice next election. Control of the purse strings is the only issue EVER in Canada. Social, foreign and domestic policies are a side note in Canadian politics.

ccon said "Do yourself a favour and talk to a Tamil."

I've worked with a lot of Tamils. Nice people and good workers. They are not the first immigrant group to land here and leave troubled homelands behind. You didn't see any other groups blocking highways or streets. As soon as you stop me from getting to work because of something going on in your homeland thousands of miles away you lose my sympathy.

The Scottish guys you spoke of must have paid taxes for decades to get those pensions. The Tamils protesting here are just off the boat and have contributed almost nothing to this country yet they demand everything. Deport them and then we'll talk about the next group to be deported. And I think there's a whole bunch of groups ahead of the Scots.

"SO Iggy did what Stockwell Day was unable to do."

That is, negotiate with terrorists. Not that Day was "unable" to do so; rather he refused to do so, and good for him.

Or, in Iggy's case, more accurately, give in to them. Not that Iggy's in a position to do a damn thing for them, except fret, stamp his feet and punch the air in Parliament while the PM cooly rebuffs his demands to give in to the terrorists.

There are over 200 countries in the world. Almost all of them have some elements of ethnic strife/injustice/axe-to-grind, whatever. Most of them would have representative immigrants in this country. If each of these groups blocks the Gardiner expressway, 401, Trans Canada Highway or whatever one two or three days out of the year, this country will be in chaos.

To the Tamils and any other refugee group: you came as refugees to get away from the conflict. Well then, leave it there. If you wanted to get in on it then you should renounce your Canadian citizenship if you have it, get on a plane, fly back where you came from and join whichever side you wish to fight for. Otherwise drop it and get to work or at least let us get on with building a better place than the busted-arse little s*#thole you left.

Yes, ccon, those no-good scots haven't pulled their weight in this country... lol.

You do know you're a twit, right?

I was going to list a few famous Canadian Scotsmen but the list is so long I'll include just one: Canada's first prime minister, John A. MacDonald. Hell, even the French didn't settle Quebec without the help of not a few Scots.

What I will say is that there's a Highland regiment in the CDN military. I've yet to hear of the CDN Tamil regiment's valiant persuits in CDN war history.

I'll leave it at that.

Surely those of you wondering if this will be a wake-up call for residents of the Tee-dot are joking. The residents of Tee-dot will bend-over happily long before they stand-up for themselves.

Hey, Toronto isn't populated by pygmies, is it?

Warwick...pretty harsh on cconn just because he didn't join the crowd.
Still no sympathy from me for the lawbreakers, but I am willing to hear more about the Tamil problem.
Having said that...ths is not an effective way for them to get attention or sympathy.

How timely...in multi-culti Toronto

May 11, 2009
Toronto Police Service launches Police Week 2009

This year’s theme is “Policing Possibilities: Inspiration for the Future.” This year’s celebration will include remarks from various police and community leaders, as well as displays and entertainment......

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/

Oh the possibilities.

Based on the response to the CBC story:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/11/tamil-protest-toront051109.html
The Liberal party may have a hard time supporting the cause anymore. Looks like Jim Karygiannis will be thrown under the bus....

Blame Trudeau. He gave us the Charter, which, coupled with multicultural policies we have a magnet that draws those from many of the hell holes of the world to our shores. Many come laden with all the animosities of the lands they left with all the rights of Canadians as soon as they set foot on the soil. They can take to our streets and blockade, interfere with our lives to demand we get involved in their fights and send endless amounts in aid.

If there were any sanity at all in this they would be told to go back "home" and fight for their cause there. Of course there would be no health care or protection of law, so the option is to cause disruption for people who have nothing to do with their problems.

Our founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves.

Kelly McParland: The Tamils' tin ear
Posted: May 01, 2009
Canadians are such saps for a sob story we take pride in the fact, viewing it as part of our national heritage.........

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/02/271645.aspx

Hell, he(Chretien) pepper sprayed protesting students who objected to a mad dictator from Indonesia and the students stayed behind the barricades.
~Warwick at May 11, 2009 12:08 PM

That was Western Canada where the pepper spray incident took place. Even Chretien wouldn't pepper spray vismin immigrants in the heartland of the LPC's support.

Heh Oz,

That was Vancouver. Geographically west but politically very Toronto. The liberals split Van seats with the NDP, not the CPC.

Very true, Warwick. But Toronto is the heart of LPC support.
Chretien wouldn't have dared.

In addition, the LPC has a history of courting the Tamils.

2 pumper trucks from the FD, 15 minutes. Problem washed away.

If you want to see how far into Bizarro World some of these Tamils have drifted, take a look at the comments here

Please note that I deliberately did not say Tamil-Canadians because I don't think these people supporting the protest tactics are Canadian in any way, shape, or form!

Not so fast mojo.
They brought the women and kiddies to ensure that type of thing wouldn't happen.

Can you imagine the politcal fallout that would ensue if anything of the kind were attempted?

I live in Toronto and just hope it can be hermetically sealed that only the latte sippers are inconvienced.

If the Liberal morlocks are going to be blackmailed into "bring up the issue of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Sri Lanka.." then this is surely a good thing. Canadians will be so pleased at having pious jelly fish for leaders.

Robert W: Where else did I see this ME! ME! ME! ME! kind of mentality as demonstrated in the comment section by those with Tamil names?...

Every one of them reads 'Everyone must help me because I want so' between the lines.

Iggy's Nuance. Iggy has met with The Man From Nuance.

"At no point did Liberal Members of Parliament or staff participate in yesterday's protest."

Liberal Iggy says, I am not now; nor have I-Moi ever been a member of the LiberalLiars Party.
...-

"Media Releases
May 11, 2009
Statement from Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on yesterday's Tamil protest in Toronto

Yesterday, in collaboration with police and out of concern for public safety, Liberal Party officials intervened to help end the demonstration by Tamils on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. The protest had blocked the highway and put the safety of the protesters and innocent bystanders -- including women and small children -- at risk.

At no point did Liberal Members of Parliament or staff participate in yesterday's protest."
(http://www.liberal.ca/story_15793_e.aspx)

This would never happen in Alberta. Or Saskatchewan. We have combines.

Fine. Sanction Ceylon. I don't drink tea.

But tailoring Canadian foreign policy in response to a bunch of yahoos illegally blocking a major metropolitan thoroughfare would be the beginning of a journey down the road to chaos.

Every group of radicals with an axe to grind or a gored ox would be pulling the same stunt until the shear banality of it would press other radicals to begin feats of arson the like of which happened in Paris a couple of summers back.

I prefer the rule of law.

ccon
When was the last time we had a massive protest from our Scottish-Canadian community??
The Tamils may very well have a valid point about what is going on in their homeland but why should I really care? There's enough problems here in Canada with rampant liberalism without trying to intervene in a civil war in a far-flung former colony.
Those who bring their ancient grievances to their new homeland and continue to battle them in our streets shouldn't be allowed here. Nor should they expect out government to intervene in their land of birth's internal affairs.Still, it IS happening in Tranna.
Schadenfreude has overtaken me.

Not so fast mojo.
They brought the women and kiddies to ensure that type of thing wouldn't happen.

So after you wash 'em away, charge 'em with reckless child endangerment. Who takes their kid to an illegal protest?

Scottish Immigration .

I thought all that noise and men running around in skirts and dead cats piled high upon their heads during the parade events was a protest.

Who takes their kid to an illegal protest?

The kind of people who invented suicide bombing, that's who.

Still, the political fallout would be a career killer and our politicians are nothing if not gutless.

warwick. i could carry my shotgun over my shoulder through part of town to an area where i could hunt birs. the police, who knew me, would wawave and drive by. apres trudeau they would call out a swat team. i was a kid then.

That was Western Canada where the pepper spray incident took place. Even Chretien wouldn't pepper spray vismin immigrants in the heartland of the LPC's support.
Posted by: Oz at May 11, 2009 1:38 PM

--If it happened in Calgary, Chretien probably would've had the protestors beaten with batons and tear-gassed. If not worse.

I would sincerely like someone to educate me on why the Tamil protesters are out in front of the U.S. Consulate. I just don't understand the connection.

If you wish to put yourself in the head of a Tamil protester and talk from their perspective, that's fine too.

oh no, terrorists and lieberal fundraisers at the same venue. say it aint so.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/05/11/tamil-protest.html

ccon Re Scots
iam sure my great-uncle would have something to say about your comment on Scots in Canada, Thats if he were here to say it.
But since he is buried in a grave in France because he chose(thats Volunteer to Most Canadians) to defend the rights of A**H**** such as yourself i will say it.
On the other hand i wont say it because my Great-Uncle was a proud Scottish/Canadian & he would not lower himself to your level of trash.

Michael Coren & Tarek Fatah are discussing this issue right now (3 - 4pm EDT) : http://corusmedia.media.streamtheworld.com/player/Player.htm?id=cfmjam

Sorry, wrong link. Here's the correct one!

Yeh those evil Scottish folks.....? leave it to the liberal left to come up with this crap when faced by real terrorists.

"If it ain't Scottish, it's CRAP!"

"There's not many critters that can outrun a greased Scotsman, laddie!"

Delusions of the Leftards

I just read the comments here. Here are a trio of "gems":

Robert G.
I'm just glad that the situation was resolved peacefully without anyone getting hurt ... the protesters, police or drivers. Thank you Ignatieff for making my commute to work easy!

Doug BC
I respect the Tamil Canadians and their democratic, peaceful protest. I took some time to read about what is happening and was quite concerned to learn about the thousands of people being killed. I know how I would feel if it was my relatives. I am glad the protest respected our laws.

Susan Phillips
Those who don't see minorities such as Tamils as equal Canadians are I hate to say it being racist. The Tamils have every right to protest under the law, however blocking of a major road was unlawful. Then again if I was concerned about my family being killed in a war, I might take desperate action.

Methinks Torontards are a lost cause.

Robert W. said, "I just read the comments here. Here are a trio of "gems":"
yeah, I'm also seeing many comments cut and pasted over and over throughout the comment sections of many different sites. Many sock puppets are busy at work.

Thank you, Robert W., for the link at May 11, 2009 3:17 PM.
It was a good listen.

The point that I found most pressing was that the Tigers are finished, they are encircled in a 10 square mile area, except where they back to the sea, they are cut off from food and supplies, and it is only a matter of time until combat operations begin their mop up phase by the Sri Lankan Army.

The war is lost to the Tigers.

If the Tigers cared about their own people they would surrender, sue for peace, and lives would be saved. What the Tamil protesters should be doing is demonstrating to the Tiger leaders that they need to come to grips with reality and surrender, not be making a nuisance of themselves and breaking the law in their new Canadian home. End of story.

Some dyke sitting on her dusty twat in Delisle bitching about about traffic congestion Toronto?

Like I care.

Toronto:

Classy. Real classy.

Gosh, I wish 2kBoston would make this a mission in GTA4. Look at all those buildings to shoot from! Maybe they can include one of those guns with rotating barrels, but all sorts of things would work too:

a city bus (or five or ten) at 70 miles an hour

a quarry-sized front end loader (like what you see handle your run of the mill blizzard)

Better -- a quarry-sized front end loader with a snow blower attachment (like what fills a quarry-sized dump truck in about 45 seconds when you have a run of the mill blizzard) [multiplayer option one]

Smokey and the Bandits-esque parade of big trucks in formation, faster is better. [multiplayer option two]

And since this is a GTA fantasy, this permutation: shoot the cops from behind the demostrators until you get to the Army response, then hide until all demonstrators are dead.

Oh, my. School must be out.

More from LibIggy.

How does one describe the relationship between the troika of Iggy/the Liberals/the Tamil Tigers?

Is it yin and yang? Mao Stlong and Liberal Boob Rae know that type of relationship.

Is it a feudal lord/master relationship?

At times, the Tamil Tigers is the dog; and, Iggy & the Liberals are the tail; then, they change positions.

Even Goreacle gets into the farce: "As temperatures plunged to just above freezing Sunday".

This German epigram applies:

Wer auszahlt ist der Meister, und wer Geld nimmt mussauch etwas geben.

Translation:
Who pays is boss, and who takes money must also give something.

Above all, let it be clear that the Tamil Tigers are a proxy of Iggy & his Liberals.

The Tamil Tigers are mercenaries/proxies for Iggy and the Liberals in their war with PM Harper and the Conservative Party.

In essence, Iggy and the Liberals are at war with Canada and its people.
...-

"Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says he will continue to press the Harper Conservatives on the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka but is distancing the party from the demonstration itself.

Today, Ignatieff issued a statement urging that future protests be lawful and stressing that Liberal MPs took no part in the protest.

He also says the Liberals unequivocally condemn the Tamil Tigers."(canpress)

Round them up and those that are not Canadian citizens, ship them out of the country tomorrow. The ones that are Canadian citizens tell them to leave as soon as posible to help over there. If we have any luck they won't come back. There is enough binder heads here now.

B-train (loaded)...200 000.00

Weld v-blade plow to front...1000.00

Driver that has had enough? ... FREE

Look on protestors faces as truck comes doing 105 km/h? ... PRICELESS

Can only do 105 kmh. McGuinty has banned faster trucks.

Miller Lite time. Enjoy it Toronto

Obviously time to buy some water cannons.

File that under "Consequences" ...

What you get when you mindlessly elect and re-elect retards to government.

First it was O'McCarthy Obama.
Now, it's K'McCarthy Lib Karygiannis.

K says it's a 'witch hunt" and a roo court.

More K: ""Unfortunately that's not the way the Conservatives go at it. It's very unfortunate.""

Speaking of roo courts, Iggy should sic Dhalla onto the nearest HRC tribunal.
...-

"Dhalla hearing a 'witch hunt': Liberal MP"
urlm.in/ckeu

"[some hatred from some asshole]"
Torontonian at May 11, 2009 4:17 PM
Why we despise you CINO's

Would not want to be riding an ambulance through those s&itheads.
'Course a Lawyer would have a totally different perspective.

Here is the natural end result of PET's multiculturalism.

A Tamil Tiger enclave, a no-go zone, a home-away-from-home for Tamil Tiger murderers.

PET is a hero/icon of LibIggy and his Liberals.

Liberal Iggy says, I am not now; nor, have I ever been a resident of a Tamil Tiger enclave, not even in TO.
...-

"Toronto is frequently at the centre of the Canadian Tamil demonstrations. Some 200,000 Sri Lankan Canadians live in the area - one of the largest Tamil populations outside the country."
(canpress)

Liberal Mp in disgrace over abuse of Immigrants. Walla, two days latter IGGY becomes the savior of Immigrants. Why oh why are we importing the worlds angry & disenchanted?
The three arrested are tokens By a Police force who have proven they have broken the long standing social contract . They have become wholly creatures of Government. They are not here to protect us as much as control people, like pigs in a pen, or tax collect for municipalities.
Ask any Women who has been stocked. The answer is invarably they can't do anything till their maimed or killed. Consider honor killings now in this Nation.
Of course if this was any none protected group they would have been tromped on.
Welcome to the Canada not for Canadians.
Liberal voters only need apply.
JMO

I'm with you there kate.

These people are demanding a respite for the Tamil Tiger Terrorists, so they can escape. Kill them all, I urge the Sri Lanka government.

OK So the Sri Lankan nationalists are not always the greatest with minorities, but they are obliged to end this constant killing.

If the Tamils want the killing to end, then have the Tigers surrender. The Sri Lankans will be better than your tiger propagandists suggest.

Anyway, you could always re-escape to Southern India, to the state of Tamil-Nadu!!!

Enough! If you want war with Canadians, you can have it.

What is the status of these people?

Landed immigrants?
"Refugees"?
Citizens?

I suggest a law, if it doesn't already exist, that would deport any "refugee" or landed immigrant, who breaks the law. Simple really.

Bob at May 11, 2009 10:08 AM

Your point is nonsensical. How does having foreigners (and I bet most of these people are NOT Canadian citizens - probably immigrants and "refugees") define the internal and external politics of the state?

You are a fool, as is Iggy and Iggybrals.

cconn at May 11, 2009 12:21 PM

Anything I read like your post I just dismiss as Tamil propaganda. True or not, the Tamil Tigers are to blame for my skepticism.

I personally see the Tamils as the invaders, trying to carve out an ever-larger niche of Ceylon.

But then, hey, what do I know? Why is the Southern state of India called Tamnil-Nadu??

Some dyke sitting on her dusty twat in Delisle bitching about about traffic congestion Toronto?

Like I care.
Posted by: Torontonian at May 11, 2009 4:17 PM

You must be one of them 41 percentiles that was discussed on the other thread.

Just more evidence western civilization is going to disapear if people keep voting liberal...

Personna non nannies identifactium with liberlasses est Dhallaadum.

Delenda est Iggyium.
(H/T Cato)
...-

"Dhalla and nannies set to testify

Embattled Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla and the three Filipina caregivers who say they were mistreated while employed by her family will make their cases to federal politicians today."

"Ms. Valesco said.

“We're just a bunch of former caregivers and caregivers,” who are trying to bring an issue forward, she said. “It has nothing to do with Jason Kenney. We don't want to be identified with him. We don't want to be identified with [NDP immigration critic] Olivia Chow. And the Liberals as well. Why should we be identified with them?”
(gm)

Once upon a time I opined that the Mohawk Warrior dorks would have gotten a different response from the OPP if they blocked the Gardiner Expressway instead of Argyle St. in Caledonia.

T'would appear I was wrong. They're just as useless in Hogtown as they are here.

For every brain dead Liberal voter in central Canada, welcome to PET's Trudeaupia.

Meh ... Toronto problem, you got about 65% of them living there. Had a look at the folk menu ... spicy good, lack of meat - bad.

http://tinyurl.com/2q93yf

BTW: does anyone know where I can get a banana leaf plate in Canada?

I am sick of these a&&hole thugs

I do not think the state and it's powers has the will or men or equipment to 'clear the streets'.

This will become a common feature of life in Toronto and Ottawa.

As for those of us who live in Canada, we can both sit back and watch as the aristocrats in both of those progressive third world cities enjoy their third world lifestyle. Personally, I hope their suffering is as extensive and deep as the burden of taxation I have been suffering under to pay for the plantations my ancestors never had.

Let Toronto burn. The sweet smell of the roasting will be ambrosia to the pagan gods that political correctness has set up in place of Christ.

I'm just wondering if we can split Ontario into the Torontard-Ottawa eastern part and everything west and north of that as a new province.

Most people more than 7 minutes west of Toronto can't stand hogtown.

"Toronto-puram" has already become an integral part of the next struggle for a pure-tamil, pure-ethnic homeland in which no one else can exist. And it will be a no-holds-barred struggle. A coupla suicide bombings targetting schools or packed commuter trains will cripple Toronto and make its liberals want to cave in.

Canada allowed these people in, with no questions asked. So did Australia and the Aussies are now facing a barrage of discrimination law suits against tamils. Some of these which reached Supreme Courts have now been thrown out. How that will pan out, as the rage gradully builds up and the tamil immigrant community grows in size in Australia will be a lesson Canada wants to watch very closely.

Whether it turns out to be violent in Australia or not, Canadian police should photograph each of these pro-tamil tiger protestors and keep close tabs on them. Now they live among us. And they believe in violence to get their way. The day of the first suicide bombing, whether it is to gain attention to the war in Sri Lanka, or to some percieved indifference on Canada's part, could very well be not too distant in the future.

"Toronto-puram" has already become an integral part of the next struggle for a pure-tamil, pure-ethnic homeland in which no one else can exist. And it will be a no-holds-barred struggle. A coupla suicide bombings targetting schools or packed commuter trains will cripple Toronto and make its liberals want to cave in.

Canada allowed these people in, with no questions asked. So did Australia and the Aussies are now facing a barrage of discrimination law suits against tamils. Some of these which reached Supreme Courts have now been thrown out. How that will pan out, as the rage gradully builds up and the tamil immigrant community grows in size in Australia will be a lesson Canada wants to watch very closely.

Whether it turns out to be violent in Australia or not, Canadian police should photograph each of these pro-tamil tiger protestors and keep close tabs on them. Now they live among us. And they believe in violence to get their way. The day of the first suicide bombing, whether it is to gain attention to the war in Sri Lanka, or to some percieved indifference on Canada's part, could very well be not too distant in the future.

In Sri Lanka the military has the tamil tigers cornered, and the tamil tigers have thousands of tamiil civillians held hostage, to bargain a way out. Hundreds of tamils who tried to escape the brutality of the tamil tigers (check the flags on display in Toronto streets. Yes, that's them) have been tortured or killed by the tamil tigers.

Is anybody going to be surprised if these thugs now living among us take a school full of kids hostage, to win a demand? How difficult would it be for killers who murder thousands of their own people in 'business as usual' to kill a few hundreds of people who have nothing in common with them? Like the average tax-paying Canadians, who are different to them in every way?

Canada chose to sleep with the feral cats from Sri Lanka. Now its time to awake with the fleas.

This demonstrates the success of Canadian multicultural policy. When these Sri Lankans arrived in Canada, they wouldn’t have dreamed of blocking a road to protest a civil war on the other side of the world. What would it accomplish?

Now they have assimilated and have adopted Liberal Canadian values. Every Canucklehead “victim” whines about something and demands compensation. Canadian Indians blockade roads and vandalize with impunity, then have their demands treated as worthy of negotiation. Why shouldn’t Asian Indians?

Tamils have seen Mohawk crimes go unpunished. Canadian politicians of all parties are afraid to criticize native lawbreakers, much less order police to enforce the law. Police are justifiably unwilling to act without clear political support, since a scratch to an Indian could end a police career and may result in prosecution.

Now Tamils have blockaded a Toronto expressway. Will land claims and financial demands be next?

These tamils will bring hardship to every other Canadian and will make demands that are unreasonable at all times.

Lawmakers, take legal action against these terrorists.

McGuinty urges protesters not to carry Tamil Tiger flag

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090512.wtamilflag0512/BNStory/National/home

Beautiful!

Tamils plan further road blockades in Toronto.

Does Ontario’s invertebrate premier, Dalton McGuinty, pledge to enforce the law? No.

Does he support police action and threaten prosecution of criminal acts? No.

Does he pledge to keep roads open? No.

He urges supporters of a banned terrorist organization not to wave their flag and invites them to demonstrate in front of the provincial legislature. Nobody could accuse him of decisive action.

Get back to hiding under your desk. The Indians are coming!

"Today, Ignatieff issued a statement urging that future protests be lawful and stressing that Liberal MPs took no part in the protest"

Iggster had to come out and say that. It is totally expected for the left and groups like this are part and parcel.