Some Occupy Ottawa protesters had removed tents and left the park on Tuesday, but a group of demonstrators had barricaded themselves inside the fountain.



Interesting place to make your last stand. Unless the police are 2 feet tall it looks like they'll make quick work of those defences.

I love it when my hometown makes the news.

I don't believe this at all. Canada is the most awesome country on the planet and the police there would never impose on a persons right to protest.

Canadians are so adorable. I want to date all of you, and take you home to meet my folks.

Love this one for DAT ASS

As a canadian, there really isn't all that much to complain about. Job markets ok, tons of resources, banks are in good shape, second largest exporter of oil in the world. Sure if the worlds economy goes down it'll probably take us out with it but at this moment I'm not nearly as nerveous.

Kazakhstan is greatest country in the world: How dare those savages trample all over their citizens' civil liberties!!

I think America, land of the free and home of the inalienable bill of rights, should send a delegate to mediate this madness at once. We will show them how to be truly free.

Seriously. Their police don't even give their veterans skull fractures when have the gall to protest!

Flab: miss diminutive: Interesting place to make your last stand.

Didn't you see "enemy at the gates"? Jude Law was able to kill a German general and his aide by hiding in one.

Well, lets hope there wasn't quite as many corpses to hide under :D.

Ed Finnerty: It must be nice to have freedoms, Canadians.

I don't hate their freedoms but I sure am jealous of them.

FenixStorm1: As a canadian, there really isn't all that much to complain about. Job markets ok, tons of resources, banks are in good shape, second largest exporter of oil in the world. Sure if the worlds economy goes down it'll probably take us out with it but at this moment I'm not nearly as nerveous.

Your unemployment rate is already over 7% and 73% of your exports go to the USA. If the US economy ever really collapses, you guys are goners.

You know it's sad when your hockey team does a better job of roughing people up.

Damn! I was hoping for another thread where uneducated Leftists misuse the word, "Fascist", and 12 year olds try to sound World Weary and cynical.

Where is the outrage!?!



Eight people were arrested this morning -FTFA

Eight people. Man - that's enough for a card game! The Revolution is coming, Komrades!!!

Gawd, Canada is boring.

ThisNameSux: Your unemployment rate is already over 7% and 73% of your exports go to the USA. If the US economy ever really collapses, you guys are goners.

It used to be about 84% of our exports if I recall correctly, so at least that number's going in the right direction.

damn you canadadians and your universal health care, nice people, and funny acksents...

FreakyBunny: miss diminutive: Some Occupy Ottawa protesters had removed tents and left the park on Tuesday, but a group of demonstrators had barricaded themselves inside the fountain.

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Interesting place to make your last stand. Unless the police are 2 feet tall it looks like they'll make quick work of those defences.

I love it when my hometown makes the news.

I was thinking the same thing. I know that fountain well, and never considered it Ottawa's Alamo. I bet the cops were tempted to turn it on. I am sure the impending snow fall had nothing to do with hippies going home.

Me too. I was listening to CBC this morning and they were saying "yeah, the police helped one guy to hospital...for a pre-existing condition." Frankly there were more confrontations and threats of violence on the Queensway this morning.

Too late! That's what I get for trying to post from work.

That mid street makeout one is way better anyway.

What the story doesn't mention that after the assholes were arrested they were taken into the back room at RCMP headquarters and sodomized with a frozen toilet plunger handle. Johnny Canuck may put on a civilized face for the rest of the world, but in private, they can be as brutal as any NYPD reject.

meanwhile in Canada...

yeah...the whole lumberjack thing (new window)

Little.Alex: Damn! I was hoping for another thread where uneducated Leftists misuse the word, "Fascist", and 12 year olds try to sound World Weary and cynical.

Where is the outrage!?!

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Eight people were arrested this morning -FTFA

Eight people. Man - that's enough for a card game! The Revolution is coming, Komrades!!!

I don't think you know what a Fascist is, to for some reason.

_{I think most people have been refering to the USA as a oligarchy.}

All the hooligans are getting ready for the Grey Cup in Vancouver this Sunday. Think the Canadian version of the Superbowl. The home team (BC Lions) is favored and playing in the recently re-opened BC Place (cap ~54,000).

Oh yeah, Nickelback is the halftime show.

What, could possibly go wrong?

Ess_Aytch: ThisNameSux: Your unemployment rate is already over 7% and 73% of your exports go to the USA. If the US economy ever really collapses, you guys are goners.

It used to be about 84% of our exports if I recall correctly, so at least that number's going in the right direction.

Eh, it'll be lower once we start shipping more oil and lumber over to China. I think we sell our exports to the US mainly because they're right there, plenty of other people need the things we're selling.

I'm glad no one was hurt.

/shout out to my fellow Ottawans

Rozotorical: I think most people have been refering to the USA as a oligarchy.

Oligarchy is a good description.

Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with an elite class distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, commercial, and/or military legitimacy.

We would also accept Plutocracy.

Plutocracy is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.

Some people use the word Plutarchy which is a combination of both of the above.

Aw man, this picture is hilarious.

Libs keep talking about the "militarization of the police forces". But, the fact is that the police has acted in a very restrained manner when dealing with squatters/demonstrators. Sure there has been some pepper spraying but how big of a deal is that really? It won't kill you. It won't even injure you. Plus, the UC Davis incident was 1 officer acting inappropriately.

The outrage coming from the left just isn't justified.

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Love this one for DAT ASS

That picture is much sadder when you realize he is giving her mouth to mouth because she passed out.

BullBearMS: When we militarized our society in response to the global terrorist threat, we created a new psychological atmosphere in which the use of force and military technology became a favored method for dealing with dissent of any kind.

Every time we looked the other way when the president asked for the right to detain people without trials, to engage in warrantless searches, to eavesdrop on private citizens without even a judge knowing about it, we made it harder to answer the question: What is it we're actually defending?

From the very start we unleashed those despotic practices on foreigners, whom large pluralities of the population agreed had no rights at all. But then as time went on we started to hear about rendition and extralegal detention cases involving American citizens, too, though a ...


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You're completely full of shiat, and have no idea what you're talking about.

But on the plus side: you're clearly eligible for work as a manure spreader.

change1211: Aw man, this picture is hilarious.

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Way to rally against corporate Canada (doesn't have the same ring to it), bro. Major-chain coffee cup in hand, what's probably a department store coat on him, and a factory-made backpack.

"Eat the Rich!" "Drink the rich creamy flavour of a Starbuck's low-fat Latte!"

change1211: Aw man, this picture is hilarious.

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I said I wanted A VENTI DECAF "SOY" LATTE NO WHIP WITH AND ADD SHOT.. Not his crap! This is CLEARLY Half and Half. You officers should arrest those elitest coffee pricks! Man, I am so angry I could point!

I know, right.

Heaven forbid American police officials be civil and not violent...

You reap what you sow, civilly-encharged.

Be civil, civil-keepers.

;)

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Love this one for DAT ASS

That picture is much sadder when you realize he is giving her mouth to mouth because she passed out.

She's holding on to his neck against the force of gravity. Unconscious people generally don't manipulate their limbs.

change1211: Aw man, this picture is hilarious.

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What really makes it is the pointing finger.

evoke: Sure there has been some pepper spraying but how big of a deal is that really?

How big a deal is it when the police employ illegal violence against citizens peacefully exercising their First amendment rights? Seriously???

deamonbutterfly: change1211: Aw man, this picture is hilarious.

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I said I wanted A VENTI DECAF "SOY" LATTE NO WHIP WITH AND ADD SHOT.. Not his crap! This is CLEARLY Half and Half. You officers should arrest those elitest coffee pricks! Man, I am so angry I could point!

Okay seriously, you made me spit water all over my screen at work. How do I explain this!

As a member of the Canadian Military (insetrt rowboat joke here), I find it odd that most of my coworkers think the occupy protesters are nothing more than a bunch of law breakers that are viiolating city ordinances and being a nuisance. I defend the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms (borrowed heavily from the US Bill of Rights)

As I listen to people biatch amnd moan that these people have no right to disturb local business merely by their presence I am reminded that the governments involved had no right to commit tax payer dollars to sustain failed bankd and business. I don't hear my coworkers moaning that their personal tax burden has significantly increased so that we can stay comfy and have our children pay the price. I hear them cheer the guy with the "occupy a desk" sign. Never mind that most of those desks have moved to India or China.

It is my duty to uphold the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. For some reason when you add jobless protesters into the mix that want to see the income equity rebalanced, all I hear is people talking about bulldozing the protests, bashing the "hippies" and getting back to business as usual. That style of business has led us to the precipice of perhaps the greatest depression the world has ever seen. Asking for change in the form of protest is a right. It is not a privlidge. Peaceful assembly is a guarantee under the charter. Cops coming in and pepper spraying and tearing downd structures leads to conflict. This creates a non peaceful asembly. It is however, the authorities that generate this discord.

The system is broken. Very broken. The protesters may not have the answers as to how to fix it but they are trying to bring attention to the problems and to those that might have the knowledge to effect real change that can fix things..

Representative of the unwashed masses: All the hooligans are getting ready for the Grey Cup in Vancouver this Sunday. Think the Canadian version of the Superbowl. The home team (BC Lions) is favored and playing in the recently re-opened BC Place (cap ~54,000).

Oh yeah, Nickelback is the halftime show.

What, could possibly go wrong?

I hate my country sometimes...