Reply #61: dog only knows [View All]

[iverglas]

A couple of decades ago, I was on the steering committee organizing a rather major international kind of event. My responsibility was security and the demonstration.

I liaised regularly with the RCMP. I conveyed our desire that the CPC-ML (Communist Party of Canada - Marxist-Leninist) not be part of our demonstration. We were a broadbased coalition of labour, political, religious and other credible and highly visible organizations and had no interest in having our activities hijacked by the loony and highly untrustworthy and very loud-mouthed "left". CPC-ML basically consisted of a half-dozen people who showed up at other people's events and shouted their own slogans non-stop for the duration.

At one meeting, we discussed these concerns with Sgt. Larry. As we were getting ready to go, Sgt. Larry leaned back in his chair and put his boot up on the table and mused perplexedly, "Who are those people, anyway?" Well of course I replied, looking equally perplexed, "We always thought they were you people!"

Was I wearing my famous sweater? I have no idea, because I have no idea what sweater that was. We did have Tshirts made up for the steering committee and the marshalls. I must still have that somewhere.

I don't expect my police services (this "LEO" business is just soooo 'murican) to trust CPC-ML, or the black bandana gang, any more than I do or any rational person does. I don't expect them to trust biker gangs or drunks with car keys or corrupt prime ministers, either. What use would they be if they did??

I'm sure you had a point. And I'm just about as sure that I'll never know what it was.


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