Vancouver protesters force Harper to scrap appearance

HeresyLives

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Wed Feb-10-10 07:47 PM
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Vancouver protesters force Harper to scrap appearance

Vancouver protesters force Harper to scrap appearance

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was unable to enter a Vancouver Chinese community centre to make a scheduled appearance Wednesday because protesters had surrounded the building and sealed its doors.

Harper was to have visited the centre to see a rehearsal for Chinese new year festivities next week.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/02/10/bc-harper-vancouver-cancellation-protesters.html#ixzz0fBS4gCiY

This was about Insite, but I suspect the Games will be worse.

Sorry to be posting so much about Harper, but it makes me chuckle, it do, it do.

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tuvor

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Wed Feb-10-10 08:55 PM
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1. Video of Libby Davies and Dimitry Soudas over the phone on CBC's Power in Politics

Listen to DJ Dimitry spin, spin, spin.

Thanks for posting, HL.

http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/player.html?clipid=1410229515

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HeresyLives

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Wed Feb-10-10 09:03 PM
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2. Well he's lied so many times, I dunno

Edited on Wed Feb-10-10 09:11 PM by HeresyLives

if he has any credibilty left. Reminds of Donald Duck in a rage, or Yosemite Sam. LOL

On edit: Tsk...spelling!

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iverglas

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Thu Feb-11-10 11:49 AM
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6. what a piece of shit that one is

Saw it last night. Would have been nice if Libby had just come out and said "you are lying". But she was in the position of having to prove a negative - the doors weren't chained - and isn't omniscient.

A not totally coherent time-line kind of report of it all:

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/02/postpmprotestspinwatch-so-what-the-heck-happened-in-vancouver.html

ONE LAST UPDATE: Just to reiterate what I tweeted a few moments ago, given the timeline, it seems as though it would have been entirely possible for the chains to have been removed by police before Libby Davies arrived, or without her having been aware of them. At the same time, Dimitri Soudas was correct in stating that, according to the Vancouver Police Department, the protesters may well have temporarily blocked the exits.

Were the doors chained or not? Anybody know?

If they were ... who cares ... ? Given ready access to big cutting tool things, which I assume police have handy, and multiple entrances/exits to/from the building, anybody who claimed to see such an action as anything other than symbolic would be ... a lying piece of shit.

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tuvor

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Wed Feb-10-10 09:17 PM
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3. PMO press release: PM visits Chinese Cultural Centre on eve of Year of the Tiger

Funny, nothing about him not actually attending the dress rehearsal inside.

:rofl:

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&id=3115

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Spazito

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Wed Feb-10-10 10:36 PM
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4. WTG to the protesters!

That's what should happen everywhere the man appears, he is such a coward it wouldn't take overwhelming numbers, lol.

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Lucy Goosey

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Wed Feb-10-10 10:59 PM
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5. ...awesome.

Now if only I could find some way to force Harper to scrap all of his public appearances in my hometown and place of residence: Ottawa. :D

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HeresyLives

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Thu Feb-11-10 11:52 AM
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7. Major protest at legislature today for Harper.

Edited on Thu Feb-11-10 11:54 AM by HeresyLives

I hope he enjoys his trip to BC. LOL

On edit: Here's an url on it.

http://www.timescolonist.com/sports/2010wintergames/Protesters+mass+legislature+speaks/2549722/story.html

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