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Jayx1
Prime Minister of TOTA
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: The Socialist People's Republic Of Canada
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was this yesterday? Again, wheres the tear gas?
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May-16-2009 17:35
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E2EK1EL
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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May-16-2009 17:42
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MarkT
Automatic Static

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Toronto
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| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
It's been pointed out that this effectively sets a precedent in Toronto that you do not need a permit or anything else to block major roadways with a demonstration. All you need is to notify the police that you'll be shutting down, say, Bloor and Yonge, round up a few kids and a big enough mob to deter a violent confrontation, and make whatever gibberish demands are important to you. It's totally legal.
So I say we round up every moderate and conservative in the GTA, bring our families (not just the kids - some elderly folks would definitely improve the impact, and a few wheelchairs would be absolutely killer), and block Yonge St from Queen's Quay to Bloor for an entire day demanding that Miller step down as mayor immediately.
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I challenge you to make it happen!
the average person here is so politically complacent that we have no need to worry of this becoming a regular occurance 
on a side note...
Asians > Tamils
I'm at work today and the Falun Dafa march just went by on College/Bay. Full band, uniforms, flyers, big professional banners.
the Tamils could learn a thing or two on protest aesthetics from these folks. 
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May-16-2009 19:13
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LKD
Omni-peasant

Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Its June 18th, 2005, I'm at the Skybar
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| quote: | Sri Lanka army 'defeats rebels'
The Sri Lankan president has declared a military victory over the Tamil Tigers after 26 years of bloody civil war.
Speaking on a visit to Jordan, Mahinda Rajapakse said he would return home to a nation totally free from the "barbaric acts" of the rebel group.
However, senior officials told the BBC fighting rages on in a tiny area of the north-east where the Tigers' leadership is said to be cornered.
More than 70,000 people have died in the bitter war for a Tamil homeland.
The last weeks of the war have been marked by a growing chorus of international concern over the fate of Tamil civilians caught up in the intense fighting.
Sri Lanka's military spokesman, Brig Udaya Nanayakkara, says 25,000 civilians have made it out of the conflict zone in the past 72 hours, 11,800 of them on Saturday alone.
However, more remain inside the small area where the Tamil Tigers may be preparing for a fight to the death.
The UN and Western governments have called on Sri Lanka to exercise restraint in its pursuit of a military victory over the Tigers.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has become the latest leader to speak out on the issue, declaring on Saturday that there would be "consequences" if Sri Lanka did not work to ensure an orderly end to the conflict.
'Humanitarian operation'
Speaking in Jordan, Mr Rajapakse said: "My government, with the total commitment of our armed forces, has in an unprecedented humanitarian operation finally defeated the LTTE militarily.
"I will be going back to a country that has been totally freed from the barbaric acts of the LTTE," he added.
“ We have restricted the LTTE to [a] one sq km-like area, so we will mop up and seize the rest of the LTTE cadres and the leadership ”
Gotabhaya Rajapakse Sri Lanka defence minister
But the BBC's Charles Haviland, in the capital, Colombo, says a senior government spokesman in Jordan with the president could not confirm that fighting had ended in the north-east.
There are now concerns that the Tamil Tiger leadership is preparing for a last stand, our correspondent says.
The Tigers' leadership has said repeatedly that they will not surrender, and are thought to be keeping thousands of civilians as human shields.
There have also been reports that the Tigers are preparing a mass suicide in the face of a military defeat.
A UN spokesman, Gordon Weiss, told Associated Press the organisation still had "grave fears" for the safety of an estimated 30,000 to 80,000 people still inside the combat zone.
Earlier, Sri Lanka's defence minister told the BBC that the army was closing in on the remaining fighters for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (the full name for the Tamil Tigers).
"We have restricted the LTTE to one square kilometre-like area, so we will mop up and seize the rest of the LTTE cadres and the leadership," Gotabhaya Rajapakse said.
He said the army did not know exactly where to find rebel leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran, but expressed confidence he would be tracked down.
"If he has not committed suicide then he should be there," Mr Rajapakse said.
Prabhakaran began the fight for a separate state for Sri Lanka's minority Tamils in the early 1970s, progressing into a violent civil war in 1983.
Tigers landlocked
The capture of the Tigers' last remaining stretch of coastline earlier on Saturday was hailed as a decisive breakthrough by Sri Lanka's army.
For the first time ever the rebels do not have sea access, and the army is "progressing" to clear remaining rebel-held land, Brig Udaya Nanayakkara said.
Speaking after the president's statement, he said military action in the north-east was ongoing, also branding it a "rescue, humanitarian operation".
The Tigers once boasted a deadly and much-feared naval strike capability, often using boats to launch lethal attacks during the long years of their guerrilla campaign.
State TV showed images of explosions and plumes of smoke rising from close to the coastline, as well as images of celebrating troops in coastal areas.
The army said the scenes proved that the Tigers were blowing up their own caches of ammunition, but there is no independent confirmation of that claim.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/...sia/8053542.stm
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