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The University does have some responsibility for their part of this mess, albeit they don't receive much. Management gave the green light for the circus to roll into town. As management, they bear responsibility for what happens. If a company is losing money, its management that gets scrutinized far more than say the shady accountant who is directly responsible for it. This illustrates why management gets paid far more than a guy on the assembly line. The decisions management makes, have far more implications than the decisions people lower down make. Management let the genie out of the bottle, the "university" has no one to blame but themselves. Then there is the letter from management to Ann Coulter, that's black eye number two. That being said, there is also plenty of blame to go to various student groups, the organizers, and the protesters that apparently overwhelmed security.

For someone who has a knowledge of fighting, does being on the ground automatically mean they are not a threat? None of us know if the first guy was fully restrained, he is too far away, and more likely than not, resisting arrest by making it difficult to put the cuffs on. Gentleman number 2 was blatantly making it difficult to arrest by squirming around on the ground. Why do those guys feel the need to resist arrest? Are they going off to a death camp? I didn't know the drunk tank was that bad. Not only that those cops were severly outnumbered. There were 3 of them breaking up a brawl of 8 more, then there is the possibility of by standards getting involved. That was a very dangerous situation, and those people needed to be put in cuffs ASAP, rolling around on the ground flailing your arms around not only can cause unnecessary injury to the cop performing an arrest, the perp could also get lucky and get their side arm - then that's where the fun really begins. Perp number 2 had the opportunity to lie on the ground and put his hands behind his back and go limp, he chose not to. What happened here is far more fortunate than what happened in Alberta, 2 people with bruised ribs, versus a half a dozen people including officers beaten to a pulp.

Oh they have the right to assemble, and the cops have every right to use every trick in the book to legally stop a protest. They used coercion and by gum it worked. No Ann Coulter, no protesters. Cops 1, Ann Coulter 10, Protesters 0

It was an out for Coulter et. al. It adds more fuel to Coulter's fire. It wouldn't have mattered to the cops if they posed danger or not. If convincing Coulter et. al to cancel means that people will go home and stop protesting loudly, that's a feather in the cop's hat and they don't have to waste more time looking after protesters.

On "advice" from the Ottawa City Police.

CTV news And this is what happens if police officers were to listen to Dr. Greenthumb's recommendations. Apparently its all right for police officers to get seriously hurt on the job, so long as the perp has a fair fight.

Do you know who capitalizes the banks? Bondholders, shareholders, and depositors. They charge those "high" interest rates on loans and "earn" more because the banks have an obligation to these people to give a return on their "investment" plus interest. If they didn't, people would say to pot with it and stuff their money in a mattress, and everyone is poorer as a result.

Which begs the question, when does Galloway try and come back to Canada. If he's got no criminal record, he has a legitimate case to come and present "the other side". If we let one loony tune in, we have to let them all in...

Pay attention to the perp's hands. He was resisting (although not enough to some people's definition of resisting). The perp was making it difficult to put the cuffs on. Why that perp felt the need to resist is beyond me? All that was going to happen was a ride down to the cop shop, the charges probably get thrown out and he's out in a couple of hours. It's not like the cops are going to haul him off never to be seen again.

See below This is a point at which to engage said crazy person, because they have managed to gain a following. Hit and run tactics, ruin credibility, rinse and repeat. Usually, if they are too nutbarrish they won't get taken seriously, had people just ignored her in the first place, she wouldn't be relevant. Now unfortunately she has to be engaged and it won't be pretty. Oh great more do as I say, not as I do. Shall radical leftists be treated the same way?

The debate does not have to be civil. If one wants to engage her, just use hit and run tactics. Make her play your game. Just let her do her thing and don't worry about it, she'll dig her own hole. It's like a bum on the street babbling nonsense, does anyone pay attention to him? No, he's a speaker without an audience, which begs the question If a tree falls in the forest with nobody around does it make a noise?

Nope, just further down the train tracks than I am.

Is it? The idea of rewarding success instead of punishing it is unsupportable? There may be winners and there may be losers, but at least there is the opportunity to be a winner rather than being neither. The NYSE has been around since 1792. The USSR lasted 80 years.

CTV.ca Looks like these two are on the right track. Very smart to put it out like that.

I'd say so. People like a trainwreck.

I'll take silliness over failure anyday of the week.

Ann Coulter is like an 80's Satanic Rock Band. Little talent, only thing going for them is shock appeal. It's sheer marketing genius, the only way to deal with people like that is to deny them the fight. The sooner people realize that a "captain without its crew can't do diddly squat" the sooner Coulter fades into irrelevance. Personally I think Coulter is useless as a right wing spokesperson. Her nonsense is only good for selling books, not selling the centre right idea of thinking.

Point taken. Mr. Canada is not "conservative" he's looney tunes. If you were to look at the political compass test, he's right up at the top in Authoritarian land. His economics are a wash.

So every right of centre poster is a raving lunatic. How "tolerant" of you. Do as I say, not as I do... You may step out of the ivory tower any time now

Depending on when this tech comes in, short term it could hurt us, long term we'd be fine. Energy projections for usage is expected to rise exponentially. Since Canada is an energy exporter, the higher the price, the better off we are in spite of what Easterners think about that. Given how much of the economy depends on energy production, I'd say "they" phase this process in sync as energy usage rises.

The CBSA's (border officers) are legit peace officers. Security guards are not. Kimmy is referring to the point at which the person is at the point of deciding whether or not they are wanting to get on the plane. At this point a person describes whether to hand something over to security guards or decides to keep said item and not get on the plane. Being as no illegal act is being committed, security has their hands tied and must follow procedure, which includes not confiscating random items.

Zing!!! Let's see Mr. Canada explain his way out of that doozy. So what is it, Catholic, Jewish, or a Harper doll set up as a shrine in your house. Doesn't it say somewhere in the 10 commandments that worshipping a false idol is a big no-no?

Sounds like the left has their version of Mr. Canada. This is gold.

Choice 1 - don't ride plane keep alcohol, mail the damn thing later Choice 2 - give alcohol to security and then ride plane. Seems like free choice to me.

This is the point I've been making, person has to give the thing over freely. Or else it's no flight.