Twenty-five! Count ‘em!! Must be all that bathroom graffiti got ‘em riled up. Or they’ve been suddenly emboldened by “offensive” place names.
If only Mohammed Atta & friends had chosen to march through Manhattan instead, eh? (And gotten their asses kicked.)
Even at their most influential, Father Coughlin and the American Bund never managed to murder 3000 New Yorkers of a Tuesday morning.
* While we’re getting all retro:
(“local musician Pat Bourne’s house was firebombed in the early hours of Feb 6, 2006 by skinheads who accused him of being a ‘Stalinist‘)”
Jesus, what year is it? Calgary: Your 20th Century World Historical Reinactment Headquarters! What next? “Haymarket Days”? An annual “Potemkin” passion play with baby carriage races?
* Of course, you can’t tell the Nazis without a score card. Especially when the 200 “anti-Nazis” who counter-demo’d — and for that I give them enormous credit — say stuff like:
“Calgary’s the only city where they can go out in public, show their faces and hand out leaflets.”
So you (anarchists/activists) hate the police except when you want them to arrest your ideological opponents before they break any laws? But you aren’t the “fascists” or anything…
* I guess there’s a chance of another “Greensboro Massacre (Not)” (I love you, Barbara Kay…) happening during confrontations like that, except that was in 1979 and there hasn’t been one since.
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