We at this site support social and political protest completely and absolutely. Cover your face, paint slogans on walls, commit acts of minor mischief and mayhem and we have nothing against that. We simply don’t feel that laws written to suppress the rights of people to protest without asking permission first have any validity with ALL the people. They’re written by governments formed by the wealthy, for the wealthy, to support the economic malfeasance of the wealthy and as such, completely undemocratic in nature. Until the system is changed to one that cannot be corrupted by the 1% we’re always going to side with the little guy who has to do what‘s necessary to gain attention for a cause intentionally suppressed by the elite. What we claim is a democracy is not much of one.
But this business of torching construction sites (or anything else for that matter) is a no-no. There are children living in those houses right near the 1st and Victoria arson attack and fire is one of the most sickening killers of children there is. The horror of it is beyond contemplation and so the stupid idiots who set this fire, and who would have to live with the horror of their deed for the rest of their lives if it had gone wrong, need to smarten up and drop that idea as a protest of any kind. Arson is not a protest, it is deadly dangerous and idiotic to toy with. Fire can spread in an instant and trap innocent people in a particularly horrific manner.
So we ask that if you know of who did this, consider turning them in to the local authorities or at least make it absolutely clear to them that this is not part of the otherwise valid protest system. This is stupidity and should not be tolerated by anyone. And if one of those involved in this is the guy who drifted into Vancouver a few months back dressed in black fatigues and sporting an Adolf Hitler mustache (which he’s now shaved off) we suggest you go back to wherever it is you came from. You’re an idiot and we don't want you here!
