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The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« on: May 27, 2012, 06:31:18 pm »
So, in response to some low-level student protests, Montreal passed a law making all protests that are not approved by the government illegal. All of them. And they reserved the right to retroactively declare any protest illegal and arrest everyone involved for taking part in an illegal protest.

People have... not responded well. The protests have swelled immensely in size - it is no longer a student protest against a %500 tuition increase (or something thereabouts), it is a city protest against a corrupt and authoritarian government. There's not much you can do to encourage protest like passing a law making it illegal to protest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/26/montreal-casseroles-student-protests
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2012, 06:38:16 pm »
This is... the absolute most amazingly stupid thing I have ever seen anyone in power do.
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2012, 06:40:02 pm »
...WTF. I was pretty sure those were one of the rights you could NEVER take away. Hasn't the federal government done anything about this?

Well...this isn't the worst outcome, at least.
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2012, 06:42:48 pm »
Wow. They are basically asking for it.

Paperbomb them with requests to protest their restriction to protest? Run the fax machines dry?  Obnoxiously ask if you can protest yet every 5 minutes?
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2012, 06:57:48 pm »
Yeah, that is just... how could anyone be that stupidly oppressive?
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2012, 07:20:17 pm »
What? Wow, stupidity is apparently much higher in the government than I thought.

Basically what they're trying to do is to disarm a bomb with fire.

Idiots.
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2012, 07:21:34 pm »
Aspiring oppresive regimes have officially hit a new low. Havelock Vetinari, the canadian government is not.
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2012, 07:29:28 pm »
... why would anyone think this would work?
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2012, 07:44:19 pm »
Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on May 27, 2012, 06:38:16 pm
This is... the absolute most amazingly stupid thing I have ever seen anyone in power do.
^ Pretty much sums it up.
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2012, 08:04:10 pm »
Yeah, not much to say other than what the hell.


I've heard before Quebec is kinda wacko, but not this much. Not nearly.
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2012, 08:14:48 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on May 27, 2012, 08:04:10 pm
Yeah, not much to say other than what the hell.


I've heard before Quebec is kinda wacko, but not this much. Not nearly.
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #11 on: May 27, 2012, 08:50:57 pm »
And so Canada officially falls behind the US in Protest Rights.

So, chances of this ending in a Quebec Revolution?
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2012, 09:03:22 pm »
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2012, 09:16:55 pm »
I'd like to point out that it's not Canada's government yet. It's only the provincial government of Quebec that has enacted this idiotic crackdown legislation. It's basically the worst thing that province's government could have done, and represents complete political suicide for the current government. Quebec is the province LEAST likely to tolerate this.
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Re: The Montreal Protests - Make some noise
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2012, 09:18:58 pm »
Canada's government is a very weak entity, if I recall my knowledge of the Canadian Political System correctly. That's why they left Kyoto, there was no way to make the provinces comply with it.
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