Hey Sri Lanka, would you just hurry up and finish them off so traffic can get back to normal? Via email;
It seems the Tamils have decided to, in my boss’ words, “take Toronto hostage”. Following news coverage for the last three hours, she says they have closed down the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway, University Avenue (where they have been protesting for nearly two weeks) and Spadina Avenue. Her husband has been trying to get out of the downtown core to his home in Oakville and is finding it incredibly difficult to get anywhere.
CP24 is reporting that protesters are set to clear the Gardiner Expressway after hearing from Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff’s office. Police are currently in the process of opening the Dundas and University corridor as well. According to one protest spokesman, Mr. Ignatieff’s office has promised to bring up the issue of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Sri Lanka with the government in Ottawa. “It was a spontaneous event,” the Tamil spokesman said in an interview with CP24.
As I said – one man’s terrorist is another man’s voting bloc.
Plus! – a helpful map for immigrants to Toronto. Truthfully, I just don’t know why McGuinty doesn’t simply redeploy the OPP from Caledonia, to prevent any interference should Tamils decide next to dig up asphalt to erect permanent barricades, claim ownership of a few downtown buildings, and play toss-the-minivan off that overpass.
QOTD: “Typical Toronto. We call in the army to clear snow, but we can’t get a few thousand scofflaws off a highway.”
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
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?