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• mdblog 01:31 on 2012/05/17 Permalink

  In other news, five cancer patients died last Thursday when their caregivers weren’t able to make it into the hospital in time to administer their treatments due to the metro smoke bombing.

• MB 02:22 on 2012/05/17 Permalink

  Wow, mdblog, how’s that for some hyperbole? Show some respect for the person who just got stabbed, and leave the politics for another thread.

• Ian 05:06 on 2012/05/17 Permalink

  I heard that the student protesters didn’t want to fight Hitler, just like the NDP. If you’re trying to become a parody of yourself, mdblog, keep it up – you’re doing a fantastic job.

• Chris 08:47 on 2012/05/17 Permalink

  mdblog, if you’re going to invent stupid analogies, at least make them make sense. The hospital system doesn’t work like that. There are always people on-site, the off-site on-call people that come in are extras. That, and cancer treatments are days/weeks between each other, and a few hours delay wouldn’t even matter much.

• mdblog 10:49 on 2012/05/17 Permalink

  Sorry to have offended you all but I’m mad as hell about all this. You think it’s disrespectful to bring politics into this story? Well then you should complain to Kate who made the reference in the first place. She could have just as easily mentioned that the stabbing had “apparently” nothing to do with the thriving drug trade in the area, but she didn’t. She linked it to the student demo.

  I am here expressing my opinions, thoughts, and reactions to the news stories posted here. If you feel I am too impassioned, try comparing what I’m doing to these protesters who are destroying OUR city. You would defend their right to do all this destructive bullshit and I’m the one making a parody of myself? If so, what have these protesters made of themselves and their movement?

• ant6n 12:06 on 2012/05/17 Permalink

  The destruction coming from students is negligible. The delays for people due to the protests is close to negligible (at most 15 minutes). Society is not falling apart because of the students. There’s no revolution, nobody’s hanging anybody. The metro smoke bombings were the most noticeable thing that happened that’s related to the student demos; but these students are not representative of the overall movement, and where not instructed by the movement – and overall, they were harmless, not worse than what the STM will come up itself in terms of delays.

  The biggest threat to society I see right now is that we are tearing each other apart. There’s a ridiculous amount of hatred, and hate speak. People all of the sudden are willing to give up basic democratic rights because students are holding a sit-in. The lunacy is not coming from the students.

• mdblog 12:14 on 2012/05/17 Permalink

  Fair enough. But if there is lunacy, it’s coming from everyone, students included. I don’t think one can characterize one group as the voice of sanity here without betraying some intellectual honesty; not to mention common sense.

• Kate 17:08 on 2012/05/17 Permalink

  Wait a second:

  mdblog: [...] you should complain to Kate who made the reference in the first place. She could have just as easily mentioned that the stabbing had “apparently” nothing to do with the thriving drug trade in the area, but she didn’t. She linked it to the student demo.

  Actually, the initial article I saw did that. There was an incident downtown at the edge of the square where a lot of demo actions have begun and ended. It’s common sense to note that although an incident may have happened nearby, police had indicated that nothing connected the two. I’m not sure what you think I said or didn’t say that was misleading or mistaken.

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