Here in Canadia, we're certainly no slouches when it comes to trampling on basic rights. Remember this little blast from the past?:
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"BCCLA Board member Craig Jones has filed a civil suit in B.C. Supreme Court against the RCMP as well as the Prime Minister's office for violating his constitutional right to peaceful protest during the APEC forum and leaders' summit held in Vancouver November 18-26, 1997.
On November 25, Jones was arrested, assaulted and jailed for over 14 hours for simply displaying signs on the lawn of his campus residence...... [/FONT]
[FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2]The lawsuit describes the events of November 24 and 25, when RCMP officers first ripped signs that Jones had placed on a fence along the motorcade route. The signs read FREE SPEECH, DEMOCRACY, and HUMAN RIGHTS. When Jones, a UBC law student and official observer of the protests on behalf of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, objected that removal of the signs violated his constitutional rights, he was told by a high-ranking RCMP officer: "Don't be stupid; go to bed."
On the next day Jones positioned himself with the same three signs along the motorcade route in an area which the RCMP had designated for residents of Green College, where Jones lives. ....[/FONT]
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[FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2]... He was approached by officer who told him to remove the signs. When he politely declined, Jones was thrown to the ground by two officers, handcuffed and jailed for fourteen hours before being released without charge. The RCMP confiscated Jones' three signs together with several more from other students present...." [/FONT]
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[FONT face=Arial size=2]And of course who would ever wanna forget this little "blast" from the past? The first commentator is Terry Milewski, who later lost his job for being too friendly with the protesters (seems he lost his cynical detachment and had offered some sort of strategic advice to anti-APEC activists). The last commentator is some thug, best forgotten, who speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
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