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Laodicean wrote:She was fired.
Sometimes revolutions are good, or at least — even with all their excesses — necessary. But surely most would agree that only in the most dire of circumstances would the uncertainty and potential for widespread opportunistic violence that follows revolutions be preferable to the status quo. To the overwhelming majority of Canadians, the election of a majority Conservative government probably isn’t quite worth throwing the nation into chaos. That Ms. DePape is not one of them tells us all we need to know about how seriously we should take her statement.
Stephen Morgan wrote:Laodicean wrote:She was fired.
Disobedience is rarely advantageous in a work environment. Or so I hear.
Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella said in a statement that he deplored DePape's actions, "which constituted a contempt of Parliament."
On Friday March 25, 2011 the Canadian House of Commons found Prime Minister Stephen Harper guilty of contempt of Parliament. According to parliamentary law, contempt of parliament is a federal crime. Being that Harper has been found guilty of a crime Harper is barred from seeking re-election on May 2, 2011. No federal government or cabinet minister has ever been found in contempt before.
Matt Gurney: While rogue page calls for a Canadian Spring, dozens die in Damascus
Matt Gurney Jun 3, 2011 – 9:39 PM ET
Chris Wattie/Reuters - DePape probably doesn't intend violence in the streets, but that's what a "Canadian Spring" would mean.
Today, I liveblogged the Throne Speech while watching the feed on CBC NewsNet, and due to the CBC’s camera angles, didn’t see Bridgette DePape (a.k.a. Bridgette Marcelle) approach the Prime Minister and Governor General and hold up her “Stop Harper” sign. I found out about it via Twitter, as both reporters and government officials in the Senate reported the rare protest during a major speech. Indeed, it wasn’t until after the speech had concluded that I (and the rest of Canada) learned more about Ms. DePape, who helpfully released a press statement (with her phone number) even before she’d been escorted from Parliament in her newly unemployed state.
In her statement, she called for a Canadian version of the Arab Spring. As that pearl of wisdom reached me, via both online and televised mediums almost simultaneously, I couldn’t help but note the irony of Ms. DePape’s statement. Exactly while I was reading her call for a Canadian Spring, CBC was providing a news update from the Middle East. Today’s stories: Dozens killed as violence continues to flare across the region.
That’s not to say that Ms. DePape wishes to see violence on the streets of Ottawa, Toronto or Edmonton, of course. No doubt she much prefers the peaceful kind of popular revolution, with hippies placing daisies in gun barrels and the like. But it does speak to the mindset of those so wildly opposed to right-wing parties winning power that they consider almost any price worth opposing the Harper agenda — including, apparently, chaos and anarchy.
Just look at the news coming out of the Middle East today. In Damascus, Syrian troops opened fire on protesters emerging from evening prayers in Damascus, killing at least 34. In Yemen, rebels of unknown affiliation attacked the Presidential Palace, wounding both the Yemeni President and Prime Minister (with as-yet unknown collateral casualties). This might not be the kind of people’s revolution that Ms. DePape would herself choose for Canada, but it is how nearly all revolutions end up eventually. Even the French Revolution, which gave us many of the building blocks of our modern civilization, had its own terrors. The guilotine did not become a commonly used implement amidst the stability of the monarchy.
Sometimes revolutions are good, or at least — even with all their excesses — necessary. But surely most would agree that only in the most dire of circumstances would the uncertainty and potential for widespread opportunistic violence that follows revolutions be preferable to the status quo. To the overwhelming majority of Canadians, the election of a majority Conservative government probably isn’t quite worth throwing the nation into chaos. That Ms. DePape is not one of them tells us all we need to know about how seriously we should take her statement.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... -damascus/
2012 Countdown wrote:If she plays this out, she could have a future in politics. The rabble love a rouser, and her statements/resasoning in regard to the stunt is effective and compelling.
Jeff wrote:"... in theory, we're in the presence of Her Majesty, that is the sovereign. That isn't Stephen Harper's room. That's somebody else's room."
Jeff wrote:Stephen Morgan wrote:Laodicean wrote:She was fired.
Disobedience is rarely advantageous in a work environment. Or so I hear.
Well - that depends.Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella said in a statement that he deplored DePape's actions, "which constituted a contempt of Parliament."
She lost her job. I'm sure she expected to.
Meanwhile,On Friday March 25, 2011 the Canadian House of Commons found Prime Minister Stephen Harper guilty of contempt of Parliament. According to parliamentary law, contempt of parliament is a federal crime. Being that Harper has been found guilty of a crime Harper is barred from seeking re-election on May 2, 2011. No federal government or cabinet minister has ever been found in contempt before.
He kept his, and even received a promotion.
Matt Gurney: While rogue page calls for a Canadian Spring, dozens die in Damascus
Matt Gurney Jun 3, 2011 – 9:39 PM ET
Chris Wattie/Reuters - DePape probably doesn't intend violence in the streets, but that's what a "Canadian Spring" would mean.
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JackRiddler wrote:Canada is Syria! Don't delude yourselves, if you intend to hold strikes or camp out for social justice. The well-armed Canadian security forces will faithfully carry out orders to shoot dead the whole lot of you unarmed rabble!
Performing from her self-penned, critically acclaimed play, She Rules with Iron Stix, Brigette DePape asks whether art is an escape from real world problems or part of their solution.
A playwright since the age of 15, and a third year international development student who has contributed to sustainable development projects in Senegal and Bosnia, DePape explores the possibility of new worlds: changing our actual world through activism vs. creating new worlds through fiction. She attempts to reconcile responsibility and creativity, suggesting that plays can be a powerful tool for cultural change.
Presented at TEDxYouthOttawa on March 4, 2010 at Ashbury College in Ottawa, Canada.
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