KBear said:
United Steel Workers have now shown up at the Tamil protest to show their solidarity and support.
Unions support any/all causes just to show unity. That's unions for ya!!!
As for this protest, isn't there an Indian consulate they can protest in front of??? Using women and children as your front line of defense from the police shows that you are the same type of cowards that you are trying to protect in your protest....you know...the Tamil Tigers. By flying their colours, you are losing any support from the public and by blocking major highways, all you're doing is pissing people off and losing even more support. Instead of that try doing this:
1) Distance yourselves from the Tamil Tigers completely...don't fly their flags, or wear anything referring to them.
2) If you're not a Canadian Citizen, especially if you've been here longer than the required minimum to become a Canadian Citizen, then leave if you feel so strongly about what's happening in Sri Lanka and go protest there as you obviously don't consider yourself Canadian and therefore shouldn't have the rights and priviledges of any form of legal protest extended to you.
3) If you are a Canadian Citizen, protest in front of the embassy and don't block major roadways and highways.....and as per point 1, don't have any reference to the Tamil Tigers.
4) Get a proper spokesperson who can speak to the media, ensure that you disassociate yourselves from the Tamil Tigers and get an organizer who will organize these protests at Queenspark or in front of the Indian embassy.
5) Canada is a great country and you are abusing the freedoms afforded to you. If you tried to do this in your home country, you know that this would have been stopped, with force if necessary. Remember that when you repeatedly abuse this freedom.
Now....please go and try some of the above mentioned and maybe, just maybe, people will start listening to you. You need the public to side with your cause....instead, you are just driving a wedge into the support you need.