To all our Tamil brothers...

[Rockslinger]

Wish all the people who come to Canada would leave all there homeland issues there.

Absolutely, my parents (bless them) were born and raised in another country but they never wanted me to feel any attachment or sentiment for the "old" country. They wanted me to be 100% Canadian. Oh, and none of that dual citizenship crap for me either. I already have the greatest citizenship in the world - CANADIAN!

 

[ogibowt]

Hey Oglibowt..its called holding a City hostage for a cause we don't give a shit about. Let them assemble in a park. Without incident? They closed a major city conduit down. Thats a pretty disruptive incident. And don't you be talking about why Canada went to war. Canadians know why we have gone to war and It wasn't to allow this rabble to shut down the city. Talk about Nobs.

oh please..this "rabble" , didnt shut down the city..what a stupid thing to say..but i wouldnt expect anything less, from a vomit bag like you who describes human beings as "rabble"

 

[ogibowt]

Absolutely, my parents (bless them) were born and raised in another country but they never wanted me to feel any attachment or sentiment for the "old" country. They wanted me to be 100% Canadian. Oh, and none of that dual citizenship crap for me either. I already have the greatest citizenship in the world - CANADIAN!

i guess that i should be on my brother in laws case for coming over from England years and years ago but still watches Coronation Street..and BBC news...to feel no attachment or setiment for the "old "country..does not somehow negate patriotic feelings for an adopted country..

 

[RayFinkel]

I don't mind them protesting on the road


I would prefer them to use the 401 at midnight though..........fucking losers!!!!

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[4Times]

oh please..this "rabble" , didnt shut down the city..what a stupid thing to say..but i wouldnt expect anything less, from a vomit bag like you who describes human beings as "rabble"

City, Street, Block, it doesn't matter. This RABBLE was a big disruption to a lot of people. What if an ambulance had to get to one of those hospitals right up the street fuckhead. Vomit Bag? Don't confuse me with your mother.

 

[Schon]

Instead of blocking our main downtown core roads which leads to our hospitals, the protestors should be moved to an open ground in Scarbrough they can stay there as long as they want and keep shouting till they want, as Canada being a free country they can demonstrate, but not disturb our main business centre and diplomatic area, which gives a poor impression to other visitors from around the world. If they are that determined they should go to USA Side and voice their protest, why pull Canada in everything, as already our Canadian Troops are paying a high price in Afghanistan, we have no cause to go and fight other people's war's in Asia, we have enough problems of our own and our own citizen's, amongst whom so many are jobless these days due to recession and other financial factor's involved due to bad economy. For Lord sake dont make Canada a sacrificial lamb any more, enough is enough now!

 

[fuji]

Whatever the LTTE is. Point is, if it is a worthy cause, and if people think it is a worthy cause, go somewhere where it doesn't cripple the city.

They can stay where they are, so long as they get off the road, in my opinion. As for how much support they are going to win while waving the flag of a brutal terrorist organization.... not much.

 

[Rockslinger]

why pull Canada in everything, as already our Canadian Troops are paying a high price in Afghanistan, we have no cause to go and fight other people's war's in Asia, we have enough problems of our own

Completely agree.

 

[Back Burner]

This thread is just incredible.

 

[Questor]

I have been thinking about this.. I doubt very much the people who organized this believe it is going to have any political impact whatsoever, I think they are motivated by something else.

Money.

I think the purpose of the protest is to get the Tamil community worked up and "energized" so that the hat can be passed around and large sums of money extracted.

Fuji, I never had you figured as a conspiracy theorist.

I bet LTTE agents in Toronto have been working the crowd, creating peer pressure, and guilting Tamils into forking over some very large sums of money as "donations" for the cause.

LOL yes, that is exactly what they were doing. They read the fundraising guidebook for the United Way and decided it would work very well for them.

 

[LKD]

why pull Canada in everything, as already our Canadian Troops are paying a high price in Afghanistan, we have no cause to go and fight other people's war's in Asia, we have enough problems of our own and our own citizen's, amongst whom so many are jobless these days due to recession and other financial factor's involved due to bad economy. For Lord sake dont make Canada a sacrificial lamb any more, enough is enough now!

exactly!! how about we ship them all back to Sri Lanka on a few container ships so they can go protest there and try fixing their country's problem themselves..... These people are fucking living in Canada, a different country for Christ's sakes!! We don't see blacks starting a protest to solve problems in Africa, do we?? Nor do we see any Indian's or Pakistani's immigrating to China to start protests to get the Chinese government to solve problems back in their homeland.

Protest if you have to. Don't disrupt the lives of Canadians around you.

 

[fuji]

I don't agree with these 'ship them back' comments, at all. On the other hand there is a limit to how long a protest should be allowed to disrupt the city.

It's one thing to have a big protest march and shut down a major street for a few hours, it is quite another thing to shut it down for days on end. Whether it is natives, tamils, unions, anti-globalists, anti-poverty activists, or whoever else, a protest should not close down a major road for more than a day.

Even during that day I think the police should have moved sooner to open up a route for emergency vehicles. They could have reached a deal with protestors that only emergency vehicles would be let through so as not to lessen the impact of the protest.

As stupid as they are for waving the flag of a terrorist organization, and as much as it is likely just a fund-raiser for the LTTE, and as much as I think it's retarded that they are protesting at the US consulate, they do have a right to protest in public wherever they want and however they want--within reason.

 

[wet_suit_one]

HOLEEE FUCK!

I make one fucking stupid comment this morning and all hell breaks loose with accusations of racism, hatred, genocide, civil war, deportation, terrorism and fucking who knows what the fuck all else occurs.

FUCKIN' EH! I love this place!

Youse guys make me proud to be Canadian!

BTW, we really should have done something about the civil war in Sri Lanka that been dragging on for fucking forever and a day now. Making the Tamil Tigers a terrorist organization doesn't make too much fucking sense to me. I mean, like what, we just noticed them now or some damn thing? WTF?

Ah well, so it is here amongs the humans. Best bet is to follow the Duke's advice, "Kill'em all and let God sort'em out"

I mean that for all human on this ball of mud, not just any one group. A very effective solution IMHO.

Cheers!

 

[4Times]

It's one thing to have a big protest march and shut down a major street for a few hours, it is quite another thing to shut it down for days on end. Whether it is natives, tamils, unions, anti-globalists, anti-poverty activists, or whoever else, a protest should not close down a major road for more than a day.
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Wrong. No group should be able to block a major artery for 5-minutes. They can protest in parks, fields, CNE whatever. At the very least it is disrespectful to the rest of the City. It ties up our law enforcement for the day as well.

 

[ogibowt]

City, Street, Block, it doesn't matter. This RABBLE was a big disruption to a lot of people. What if an ambulance had to get to one of those hospitals right up the street fuckhead. Vomit Bag? Don't confuse me with your mother.

the sign of an intellectually slow person is when they resort to insulting the mother of an anoymous poster in cyberspace..so it is true..racists can have the iq of a pylon..but at least they know how to use the caps lock key

 

[fuji]

Wrong. No group should be able to block a major artery for 5-minutes. They can protest in parks, fields, CNE whatever. At the very least it is disrespectful to the rest of the City. It ties up our law enforcement for the day as well.

The right to do that is well established in Canada. However I think there has to be a reasonable limit on it--emergency vehicles needed to betting through from the get go, and I think after a few hours or a day the protestors have made their point.

 

[pimpin_civic]

I understand that most of you are pissed that Tamil people are blocking University avenue. Its bad that Mount Sinai is blocked. Its not bad that you gotta kill an extra 10 mins of w/e time just sitting in traffic. It doesn't hurt to be a little bit more sensitive. I feel your pain too.
I use to take University avenue to Avenue road to 401 on my way home as an Alternate to DVP. Now i have to take the DVP.

 

[Rockslinger]

It doesn't hurt to be a little bit more sensitive.

Sensitivity cuts both ways. Taking over a city block days on end is very inconsiderate and insenstive too. To be perfectly blunt, my Canada includes Quebec but it does not include Sri Lanka. It is unrealistic to expect us to fix everything wrong on this planet. Sorry to be so blunt.

 

[4Times]

the sign of an intellectually slow person is when they resort to insulting the mother of an anoymous poster in cyberspace..so it is true..racists can have the iq of a pylon..but at least they know how to use the caps lock key

Hey little man. You are the one throwing names around. Racist? Convenient label when you are losing an argument. You don't even know my nationality so eat me.

 

[drunkmunky]

I have no tamil brothers. I respect their cause. I respect their losses and what they are doing. I don't dare to understand what they are going through. It's just that....


I don't give a rats flying fuck.