fuck the po-lice

just catching the news...

in vancouver tonight, there was a council meeting to discuss what to do with a budget surplus of about 5 million bucks a year for the next some-odd years. rumor had it they were thinking of putting it away as an olympic slush fund. in a city where we have the worst homelessness problem in the country (and not the highest population), where people have been protesting for years the lack of spending on the east side to help house people, where tent cities have sprung up all over the place and the dispute over this issue has been unending. in this city, they want to use the surplus money for the olympics, a bourgoise indulgence, a useless 3 week testicle swinging show.

so anyway. at this council meeting all the same protesters appeared as was expected, to have their voices heard about funding a woman's shelter on the east side. infuriated because they've been trying to be heard for years and years and years, they tried to get into the meeting and speak. but they were taken down by the vancouver police with pepper spray. the chretien legacy, alive and well...

and then the newscaster goes on to talk about how civil unrest and street crime has increased over the years in vancouver. doesn't anyone see the correlation?

don't worry, go eat your fuckin' taco chips, fatass. i'll deal with this.

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posted by Courtney at 11:32 p.m.

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