Firebombing Anarchists
Gentle souls, all. They simply have a major disagreement with the ineptitude and intransigent interference of government in their lives and the lives of the general citizenry. Perceiving how it could all be done infinitely better without governing entities prescribing and proscribing and interfering and complicating and controlling society.
Everyone, let's face it, likes to get off on criticizing government. In various degrees for any number of reasons, some fairly irrelevant and some critically important. Most of us make do with grumbling disaffection, telling ourselves we'll get our revenge at the polling booth. And then there's a minuscule proportion of any society that plan a more immediate, attention-getting device to ensure their message of discontent is heard sharp and clear.
The almost-comedic antics of the video-taping crew who took it upon themselves to firebomb a downtown Ottawa branch of the Royal Bank and in the process discommode RBC employees, with the message the bank was targeted because it had sponsored the Vancouver Olympics, staged on "Indian land" corruptly taken by a far earlier government agency, could be assumed to have been the clumsy work of a gang of young men.
Inspired by their sense of self-righteous denials of those world-controlling entities like the G8 and the World Bank, with their agendas to enrich the already-wealthy of the world, while tormenting and alienating and exploiting the already-disadvantaged of the world. They fight for justice and humanity and any methods they choose to utilize in the process are legitimate and fair, against a far more powerful antagonist.
And then, like a crossword puzzle that seems puzzling at first, but then just absurd, it is discovered that the combined investigation of police forces of the RCMP, OPP and Ottawa Police Force, have pieced together, thanks to citizen vigilance and a surplus of videos and their own astute background checks, a tale of stupidity gone absurdly awry. The thread begins with an outlier physics professor.
The University of Ottawa a year or so ago had an academic and performance disagreement with physics prof. Denis Rancourt whose course on physics-and-activism made for some fairly wacko-descriptive news items before he was finally dismissed by the university. Now, one of his students, 50-year-old C.F. Haridge, was found to be in possession of a stash of ammunition, after he was linked with the firebombing incident.
Claude Frederic Haridge, former student of Prof.Rancourt has, in fact, a number of criminal charges on his record. He loves electronics, and posted online this very thoughtful line: "Hopefully I'll be able to give back some of the stuff I've learned and help others develop some great ideas." The bank firebombing was obviously one of those great ideas. He has also, just incidentally, demonstrated against 'Israeli attacks on Palestinians'; clearly his passions are many.
One of his colleagues of the trio is a retired public servant, whose last position was at CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency. Quite obviously, this man too, Roger Clement, 58 years of age, is still heavily engaged in his ideas of doing good in the world. The deserving world of the global disadvantaged. No longer employed by Canada's international aid agency, he has turned his fancy to strewing chaos at home, through active anarchy.
And he it was who rented the SUV used as the getaway vehicle after the bank firebombing. The third of the troika is, by comparison, a raw youth at 30, Matthew Morgan Brown, a known activist previously arrested as a result of his zestful demonstrations during the 2007 Montebello Summit and at the time of former U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 visit to Ottawa.
This motley crew did create some buzz, and they did get their collective anarchist-ego stroked by national news coverage. When news of their bank firebombing hit the international press they must have been utterly ecstatic. Nothing, truly, succeeds like success. And if your goal is to attract attention they did succeed magnificently.
And having succeeded to the extent to which notoriety permitted them, they can be seen as the architects of the government's need to ensure no further 'protests', or anarchic chaos, or violence from whatever source, mars the smooth performance of the upcoming Toronto and Huntsville G8 and G20 summits.
A costly enterprise, in total.
Everyone, let's face it, likes to get off on criticizing government. In various degrees for any number of reasons, some fairly irrelevant and some critically important. Most of us make do with grumbling disaffection, telling ourselves we'll get our revenge at the polling booth. And then there's a minuscule proportion of any society that plan a more immediate, attention-getting device to ensure their message of discontent is heard sharp and clear.
The almost-comedic antics of the video-taping crew who took it upon themselves to firebomb a downtown Ottawa branch of the Royal Bank and in the process discommode RBC employees, with the message the bank was targeted because it had sponsored the Vancouver Olympics, staged on "Indian land" corruptly taken by a far earlier government agency, could be assumed to have been the clumsy work of a gang of young men.
Inspired by their sense of self-righteous denials of those world-controlling entities like the G8 and the World Bank, with their agendas to enrich the already-wealthy of the world, while tormenting and alienating and exploiting the already-disadvantaged of the world. They fight for justice and humanity and any methods they choose to utilize in the process are legitimate and fair, against a far more powerful antagonist.
And then, like a crossword puzzle that seems puzzling at first, but then just absurd, it is discovered that the combined investigation of police forces of the RCMP, OPP and Ottawa Police Force, have pieced together, thanks to citizen vigilance and a surplus of videos and their own astute background checks, a tale of stupidity gone absurdly awry. The thread begins with an outlier physics professor.
The University of Ottawa a year or so ago had an academic and performance disagreement with physics prof. Denis Rancourt whose course on physics-and-activism made for some fairly wacko-descriptive news items before he was finally dismissed by the university. Now, one of his students, 50-year-old C.F. Haridge, was found to be in possession of a stash of ammunition, after he was linked with the firebombing incident.
Claude Frederic Haridge, former student of Prof.Rancourt has, in fact, a number of criminal charges on his record. He loves electronics, and posted online this very thoughtful line: "Hopefully I'll be able to give back some of the stuff I've learned and help others develop some great ideas." The bank firebombing was obviously one of those great ideas. He has also, just incidentally, demonstrated against 'Israeli attacks on Palestinians'; clearly his passions are many.
One of his colleagues of the trio is a retired public servant, whose last position was at CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency. Quite obviously, this man too, Roger Clement, 58 years of age, is still heavily engaged in his ideas of doing good in the world. The deserving world of the global disadvantaged. No longer employed by Canada's international aid agency, he has turned his fancy to strewing chaos at home, through active anarchy.
And he it was who rented the SUV used as the getaway vehicle after the bank firebombing. The third of the troika is, by comparison, a raw youth at 30, Matthew Morgan Brown, a known activist previously arrested as a result of his zestful demonstrations during the 2007 Montebello Summit and at the time of former U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 visit to Ottawa.
This motley crew did create some buzz, and they did get their collective anarchist-ego stroked by national news coverage. When news of their bank firebombing hit the international press they must have been utterly ecstatic. Nothing, truly, succeeds like success. And if your goal is to attract attention they did succeed magnificently.
And having succeeded to the extent to which notoriety permitted them, they can be seen as the architects of the government's need to ensure no further 'protests', or anarchic chaos, or violence from whatever source, mars the smooth performance of the upcoming Toronto and Huntsville G8 and G20 summits.
A costly enterprise, in total.
Labels: Canada, Crisis Politics, G8, Government of Canada
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