Friday, June 2
Eye witness account: Solberg threatened at immigration reform meeting
Journalist Deborah Gyapong was there and took photos:
"About 20 demonstrators, mostly in their twenties or thirties, some older, continued to swarm Solberg as he tried to leave. After he'd left the building, they hounded him all the way to his car and refused to let him get in. One hauled on the tie of Solberg's chief of staff and threw him to the sidewalk."
"On a leaflet the group left behind, it said: 'We reject the divide and rule tactics of Monte Solberg, Joe Volpe and other politicians, and the division between "good" and "bad" immigrants often perpetrated by human rights groups.'
"I guess that means that Canada should not bother to check whether any terrorists are coming into this country, or whether immigrants are willing to play by the rules that have made this country a civilized, decent place to live, unlike many of the hellholes around the world where mobs and warlords do indeed rule..."
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"The big question I have is why no arrests were made. I phoned the Ottawa Police about the incident yesterday and the communications gal hadn't even heard of the case. Involving a cabinet minister? Hello? She found the case report and said she would read it and get back to me. I'm still waiting. I think the Ottawa Police has a major scandal on its hands.
"One of the CPJ spokesmen, who called the police on his cell phone, told me he thought what happened was 'completely unacceptable.'
"'They're giving colored people like us a bad name,' Chris Pullenayegem told me."
"About 20 demonstrators, mostly in their twenties or thirties, some older, continued to swarm Solberg as he tried to leave. After he'd left the building, they hounded him all the way to his car and refused to let him get in. One hauled on the tie of Solberg's chief of staff and threw him to the sidewalk."
"On a leaflet the group left behind, it said: 'We reject the divide and rule tactics of Monte Solberg, Joe Volpe and other politicians, and the division between "good" and "bad" immigrants often perpetrated by human rights groups.'
"I guess that means that Canada should not bother to check whether any terrorists are coming into this country, or whether immigrants are willing to play by the rules that have made this country a civilized, decent place to live, unlike many of the hellholes around the world where mobs and warlords do indeed rule..."
(...)
"The big question I have is why no arrests were made. I phoned the Ottawa Police about the incident yesterday and the communications gal hadn't even heard of the case. Involving a cabinet minister? Hello? She found the case report and said she would read it and get back to me. I'm still waiting. I think the Ottawa Police has a major scandal on its hands.
"One of the CPJ spokesmen, who called the police on his cell phone, told me he thought what happened was 'completely unacceptable.'
"'They're giving colored people like us a bad name,' Chris Pullenayegem told me."
