![]() All photos on this page by YYC Kingston, Ontario - yesterday 6/6/20 "Black Lives Matter" et al event What's the "et al" for? Well, this event had more than one theme. One was "Black Lives Matter", of course, in special memory of George Floyd, and the other was "Disarm, Defund, Disband the Police". I asked the fellow holding the banner you see at the left (he's associated with this endeavour) if the group was serious about actually disbanding the police. He replied that reducing their funding and using the savings to raise the standard of living of the poor (who too often are targeted by police) would be a step in the right direction. Does a better standard of living for the average human being reduce crime? I think yes. But there's crime, and then there's criminal action taken by the "authorities". And we can go back a couple of years to Washington state and remember the Asian student - "without an aggressive bone in his body" - who was killed (shot three times by police) on the eve of his graduation from Career Link: HuffPost: Asian Student Holding A Pen Fatally Shot By Cops Night Before Graduation
HuffPost has also reported a recent very serious complaint against the RCMP by an aboriginal leader:
This is the RCMP who, more strangely than one can imagine, have no clue as to how or why a couple of thousand or so young Canadian aboriginal girls and women have disappeared. And, so far, there has been only lip service paid to this disaster: CBC: Police co-ordination still lacking a year after inquiry report on missing and murdered Indigenous women Neither can Canadians ever forget Sammy Yatin, a Syrian boy who at 19 years of age was felled by 8 bullets from the gun of one Toronto police officer who was later convicted of "attempted murder" but was paroled after 2 years in prison. Not to mention that Toronto is the city that implemented "carding" of all things, and now claims to have (sort of) ended all that ... yet:
Yes, they can and they will. So, yeah: I would agree that maybe we need fewer cops and more attention to improving living conditions and showing a bit of respect for what Trudeau likes to call "ordinary Canadians" - clearly not seeing himself in that category and he and other politicians can flout the restrictions in place to stop the spread of something called the "novel" Covid19. And if you haven't yet seen the video where Trudeau goes temporarily mute when asked if Canada agrees with Trump on use of the military, you should see it. He may be a puppet who sometimes forgets his lines, but he can call in the military right here at home whenever he feels it's justified. Now for the really good stuff: photos of yesterday's protest event ... but first: In all my years of activism, I don't think I've ever attended such a loving, kind protest event. I wasn't wearing a mask (though most of the attendees were) but I didn't receive a single stony glare of the kind I sometimes encounter when in the vicinity of mask wearers in supermarkets. (Could it be that some supermarket mask wearers don't keep up on current events?) All were warm, smiley, polite -- and young, for the most part. And beautiful. So beautiful. Every last one of them. As you will see below. The first one is of a girl who reached out to hug me after I took her photo. She was in tears after speaking to the crowd and so was I. I told her that I've protested for a lot of years and ... we both said in unison: "It's still happening". I should add that my photos don't show the full extent of the crowd that was there. I don't know how many exactly but there were A LOT (the Whig says "hundreds") mostly young adults forming a complete circle around the focal point where people, one by one, made their own personal statements. It's interesting that behind the second-to-last photo is a Murney tower of which Kingston is proud to boast several. To me it is an image of "white" conquest, an image of death. Read here and see why. Sadly, the page also includes mention of a death caused as a direct result of lack of maintenance of this particular relic:
The final image below is of a young couple whom, luckily, I met on the street when I couldn't find the event venue, it having moved to a much larger area with a view of the lake, in front of City Hall. They were friendly and cheerful and didn't mind my tagging along with them.
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M. Rocknest
9/6/2020 01:18:29 am
Police brutality is a problem. Peaceful protests against police brutality … no problem with that, although I would like to see even greater numbers of people demanding their complete freedom from covid controls. However, when protests turn to riots (looting, burning of businesses and violence) then I do have a big problem with that. I don't agree with disarm, defund and disband BUT the police do need to be re-educated in order to remove all vestiges of that demented Israeli training that too many of them seem to have absorbed. Any officer who can't disconnect himself from that mindset must be fired immediately. In Max Igan's recent video he just might be onto something as to where all this could be leading … right into the hands of those who can't wait to exploit a second wave, COVID-20 or Pandemic 2 (whatever you want to call it).
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yayacanada
9/6/2020 10:45:49 am
You're right to note that about the masks, M.R. I should have asked some of them why. The reasons might have been varied, and some might have included identity protection, or simply trying hard not to break any rules that would give the cops a reason to wade in.
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M. Rocknest
9/6/2020 02:55:29 pm
Max seems quite intelligent (and kindly) but I want to be more hopeful about the future, even though it's getting harder to believe that this topsy-turvy world will somehow right itself. We are totally dependent on the food chain staying intact so if it unlinks in the winter months we'd be in dire straits. People are becoming acclimated to distancing and haven't been able to interact in a normal, human manner for months now so I wonder if everyone would pull together when absolutely necessary. "We're all in this together." That's the mother of all twisted memes they created to accompany their deliberate pulling apart of society.
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yayacanada
9/6/2020 04:00:51 pm
Yeah: "We're all in this together" -- unless you're an oligarch or a politician.
M. Rocknest
9/6/2020 05:03:06 pm
Save the crows but maybe give them a taste of their own medicine. Awhile back I made a recipe for a vaccine for oligarchs and politicians only. (It began: eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat ... ) The rest of us will sit back and eat cake while we watch their reactions.
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yayacanada
10/6/2020 08:49:36 am
Shhhh ... they're looking for a recipe. They might take yours and use it for us.
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I'm glad you had a nice experience at the protest- Unfortunately the outcomes of these protests will not be good- because they aren't intended to be good.
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yayacanada
10/6/2020 09:36:43 am
I agree, Penny. The cops were nowhere to be seen, so it was a permitted demo. A real demo does not seek permission.
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M Rocknest
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yayacanada
10/6/2020 08:51:07 am
Stop, you guys. You're giving them idea. LOL
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M. Rocknest
10/6/2020 04:26:08 pm
Richie Allen did an excellent interview with Dr. Vernon Coleman yesterday.
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Yayacanada
10/6/2020 09:31:18 pm
Watched the vid, M.R. Dr. Coleman is right: "paranoia is the only healthy option"
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M. Rocknest
10/6/2020 11:49:01 pm
My first thought, since it was in Arizona, is that she might just have been dehydrated. And why shouldn't she have been out hiking "at her age" (those comments again)? Is freedom to roam reserved only for certain ages? Bubble-wrap the kiddies and tether grannies to their beds ... all for safety's sake ... what nonsense! Leave a Reply. |
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