Protesters Disrupt Vancouver Olympics Celebration

Right on! Not everyone is on their knees to these corrupt bastards!

"We have lots of interactions with this group and this is probably the most violent that we've seen it happen," he said, calling the demonstrators "hooligans".

"hooligans"?

I seem to recall that the last time I heard that particular word used on dissidents, it was in a news release given out by the old Soviet Union.

Let's see...there's a 3.5 cent a litre tax on all gasoline being sold in BC just to pay for the pretty highway upgrades between the high priced playground at Whistler-Blackcomb and Vancouver (with a pittance of that being used for other "infrastructure"), millions being diverted away from education and other social programs, and they call the people opposed to that "hooligans'?

Yeah...right.

Nice legacy you have there Gordon Campbell.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

So, just who are the "hooligans"?

Schools are being shut down due to a lack of funds, yet this olympic nonsense seems to be important enough for an increasing supply of cash. The only people who benefit from this crap are the corporations who put it on order but don't have to pay for it.

Perhaps the most chilling comment:

"police will keep the disruption in mind when planning for the next pre-Olympic event."

So we will see yet another melodramatic over-reaction from the Vancouver Police thugs, who are already responsible for numerous over-reactions to protests, (who can forget the infamous 'PepperGate', and how they shut down New Year's Eve celebrations on Dec 31, 1999 out of fear of a riot. While the rest of the world partied, we were told to shut up and get back to our homes before midnight.)

Now is the time to BRING IT ON. I suggest that clock take some nasty dents and spray paint.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

It's ironical that the proteters aren't allowed the big fanfare. BC residents all over the province pay for a highway so the rich can drive faster. Money and the expense for a brief display of expensive real-estate and those who complain is anti British Columbia. Campbell & his bed fellows have done a great job of convincing the needy that they aren't.

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Expect little from life and get more from it.

"who can forget the infamous 'PepperGate'"

Not sure, but wasn't that one RCMP?

I stand corrected, thanks RearGuard.

Yes, that WAS the RCMP. I do not know what role the Vancouver Police also played in that incident, but I'm sure it wasn't warm and fuzzy. It may be their own actions were only outdone by the mass soaking of an entire crowd in pepper spray by the 'we always get our man, any man, even if he's innocent' mounties.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

The most ridiculous claims by the faithful are here in the interior, on how much "benefits" the Olympics will bring etc.

The Winter Olimpics last for about 12-14 days, in February.

Expo 86 went on for 6 months in the middle of summer. It cost me $5,000. about $12,000 in today's terms, although I wasn't even near the damn thing. Everybody I asked at the time was losing money, even the supermarkets were down, because locals flocked to see the show and the tourists didn't come.

Scores of small cafes and motels went bellyup for the lack of business, but "Expo put Vancouver on the map".

Funny thing, I found Vancouver 31 years earlier, when we crossed Canada by motorcycle, intending to settle there.

The Winter Olympics will be a major economic disaster for all of BC, except a small corner, which is doing OK already.
The maintenance of the fancy infrastructure will be another rope around the public's neck.

I had a good chance to compete in the summer Olympics in my youth, prevented by the war and by becoming a refugee, and was dreaming about it for years. Today, I wouldn't cross the road with free tickets even to look at any of the events.

They're no more sports than any professional showbiz, a bloody racket for "investors".

Ed Deak.

Ed, thankfully February is usually a pretty dead time of year, least where I live.

Also, thankfully they didn't get the Summer Games.

Then it truly would be expo'86 all over again.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

Expo 86 went on for 6 months in the middle of summer. It cost me $5,000. about $12,000 in today's terms,...

Even more if you take the Coquihalla Highway. That was another highway designed to bring the tourists in. "Don't worry though because the toll will be lifted once it's paid for." So why can't a toll be placed on the sea to Sky highway? I can recall going through that area in a 1958 Hillman. This was the early seventies and I guess the newer faster cars aren't capable on the present highway. So people in Prince George, Port Hardy and Merrit can pay for it.

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Expect little from life and get more from it.