Canada at its finest

(09-30-2019 01:54 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  Canada at its finest

What the hell is that?????

(09-30-2019 02:00 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(09-30-2019 01:54 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  Canada at its finest

What the hell is that?????

The woman was trying to get to a free speech event at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada with Maxime Bernier and Dave Rubin. There were about 100 people blocking the event and multiple people were arrested.

Funny thing is the old lady could probably kick each of the ANTIFA idiots a$$ if they weren't cowards and didn't gang up on her.

Amazing how they never F with military members & vets, bikers, etc

Quote:A peaceful protest outside an event for Maxime Bernier turned violent Sunday evening as supporters of his People's Party of Canada began to arrive and enter the venue.

A scuffle occurred in the crowd of around 100 about half an hour before the event — at Hamilton's Mohawk College — was scheduled to start. Two men from opposing sides of the protests were led away in handcuffs by police.

There were a total of four arrests for "breach of the peace," Hamilton police said, and all of those people were later released without conditions.

A large crowd of protesters decrying the event stood outside with signs advocating for immigrant rights and yelling chants denouncing those entering, comparing them to Nazis and neo-Nazis. Supporters of the People's Party — some wearing "Make America Great Again" hats — stood behind police and engaged with some of the protesters verbally for about an hour.

Some protesters attempted to prevent people from entering the building and one video, which is being widely shared among Bernier supporters, shows several protesters, one masked, blocking the path of an elderly woman who was using a walker, yelling at her and her companion.

Violent clashes break out at Maxime Bernier event in Hamilton

Excuse me, they didn't put themselves down as Antifa, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did.

And no, I'm not endorsing the Antifa tactics or the blocking, harassing and name-calling of anyone including the elderly couple.

(09-30-2019 03:16 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

Quote:A peaceful protest outside an event for Maxime Bernier turned violent Sunday evening as supporters of his People's Party of Canada began to arrive and enter the venue.

A scuffle occurred in the crowd of around 100 about half an hour before the event — at Hamilton's Mohawk College — was scheduled to start. Two men from opposing sides of the protests were led away in handcuffs by police.

There were a total of four arrests for "breach of the peace," Hamilton police said, and all of those people were later released without conditions.

A large crowd of protesters decrying the event stood outside with signs advocating for immigrant rights and yelling chants denouncing those entering, comparing them to Nazis and neo-Nazis. Supporters of the People's Party — some wearing "Make America Great Again" hats — stood behind police and engaged with some of the protesters verbally for about an hour.

Some protesters attempted to prevent people from entering the building and one video, which is being widely shared among Bernier supporters, shows several protesters, one masked, blocking the path of an elderly woman who was using a walker, yelling at her and her companion.

Violent clashes break out at Maxime Bernier event in Hamilton

Excuse me, they didn't put themselves down as Antifa, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did.

And no, I'm not endorsing the Antifa tactics or the blocking, harassing and name-calling of anyone including the elderly couple.

Nah, you're just doing what you always do, erect strawmen.

Quote:Apparently in the view of some I’m “Nazi Scum.” I just didn’t realize it.

As I and my retired and slow-moving mother made our way to the front doors at Mohawk College — the PPC event was going to be her first political event in almost 40 years since her ex-husband was a town councillor — a black-masked and rage-filled youth decided to scream as loudly as possible in her ear that she was a Nazi. Once inside, my mother complained of having trouble hearing in that ear which was particularly cruel since we were attending an event that required us to listen to ideas. I felt terrible because I wanted to treat my mother to an evening out while preparing to make an informed vote in our federal election.

On our way in, those same mask wearing youths decided they wanted to "school" me on how I was also a Nazi. The irony of this attempt to be educated by the uneducated outside an institute of education is not lost on me.

What these bullies did not realize is that I’ve already had an excellent teacher on the subject. My grandfather.

And unlike these misguided youth, he actually went to Europe to kill Nazis. He served in England, Italy, France and Germany.

My fondest memories of my childhood were sitting on the carpet next to my grandfather’s recliner, wide-eyed as he would tell story after story of World War II. Yet, despite the horrors he endured, each story was laced with a life lesson well beyond the norms for his generation. I remember him explaining why racism doesn’t make sense since you can take the heart out of a black man and put it into a white man and it works just fine.

He did his best to speak in a positive way, but behind the stories he carried the weight of the sacrifices that war puts on a person. His brothers were captured and force-marched as prisoners of war. Tortured and starved until the end of the war, they came back to Canada as damaged souls, one of them sleeping under his bed out of fear and unable to have children.

The other side of my family is no stranger to fighting oppression either. Two of my grand-uncles went to Vimy Ridge where one of them was killed in the first wave. My grand-aunt, a tough as nails R.N., was part of the Medical Corps and received the Royal Red Cross.

Every Remembrance Day, I reflect on the blood, pain and death our family paid to help keep Canada free.

But let’s get back to this masked group that often identifies as Antifa, standing for antifascist. It strikes me as contradictory that a group opposing Nazis or fascists would engage in these tactics. The suppression of opposition is a cornerstone of fascism, while it is our freedom to debate ideas that is a cornerstone of democracy. During the event, I didn’t hear one idea that remotely resembled the Nazi party. I didn’t agree with every policy they put forth, but that’s point isn’t it? I’m free to disagree.

Though it angers me to see such ignorance, my mother reminds me that when the NDP was first created, they were constantly called Communists and worse. I hope with the passage of time, the same holds true for the PPC.

I don’t know who I’m going to vote for, but I do know this, many Canadians gave their lives to protect our freedoms.

Labelling someone because you disagree with them won’t lead to a better society. Especially when you don’t really know the person you are labelling.

I’m not a Nazi. My family gave everything to stop them and I would do the same.

If you need to wear a mask when you assault people, who exactly are you?

— Don Henderson was among the attendees of the Sept. 29 event at Mohawk College hosted by People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier and Dave Rubin.

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