Meow everyone. Most of my readers will be very familiar with one of this cities most notorious professional protesters and promoters of violent protests, Sakura Saunders . Among her many projects, she is best known for her seemingly obsessive desire to confront Barrick Gold , the worlds largest gold mining corporation, at every turn . She has been a thorn in their side for years, and while she does have a right to protest, her protests against this company have been riddled with fabricated accusation, lies, misdirection and of course the usual misinformation that she and other professional protesters are well known for . Sakura’s interest in reporting the facts about this corporation are about the same as my interest in contracting bubonic plague .
We start this story back in 2007 when Sakura Saunders and her cohort in crime, Natalie Lowery protested the Barrick Gold anual general meeting held each year at the Metro Convention Center . Back then, it was really a non event with only her and perhaps a few other malcontents showing up while they were killing time , waiting to see their parole officers . Yes, these professional protesters don’t have jobs like you and I so hence, they have time to protest anything and everything. Ok, really, who would hire them anyway? Sakura , being the loud mouths ego filled little l spoiled brat that she is, had to show that she was the ” oh look at me , I’m the poor innocent little victim here as she was arrested after being warned to leave private property . Here is the glorious video of her arrest and the spectacular ass she made of herself for the cameras :
As you can see, the writing on the wall started way back then . Don’t worry if you don’t know what I am referring to as yet, you will soon enough. Over the years , her little hatefest of Barrick Gold only intensified and sadly, drew into it others who would rather follow a hardened criminal as opposed to actually research what this company really does . Remember, professional protesters need not have facts to work with, so long as they have their own twisted opinions to draw upon . Sakura in particular, has gone to some great lengths to intimidate this corporation , even going so far as to wear disguises , making her way up to their corporate offices and videoing them while inside. She has been banned from a variety of buildings in downtown Toronto for long history of criminal harassment .
For those who need to be reminded of the appearance of this criminal, here she is :
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As the years went on, Sakura Saunders meet a person of equal contempt for the law and another criminal my readers are , or should be very familiar with , ” Dog Catcher ” Darius Mirshahi. Darius is another professional protester who has the intelligence of a rusted spoon . I suspect his criminal record has more pages on it that he has fingers , but certainly out number the functional brain cells he has. Here he is :
Darius, when not committing crimes is busy hob knobing the globe ( by the way, like Sakura, he too, is too stupid to have a real job ) He claims to be a rap artist but one listen to his ” music ” , and one suddenly gets the desire to vomit , and I am being polite. Well, one day, these two met, and before long, they got married…..or did they ?
There is certainly evidence that supports the fact they are married as seen here :
Married to your beliefs
Getting married isn’t the obvious next step it once was. Last year Statistics Canada decided to stop tracking marriage and divorce rates, partially due to funding, but also due to the changing nature of relationships. While marriage continues to play a defining role in economic planning of both society and the individual, it’s becoming much less necessary for public and legal declaration of the joining of two people. Today, many couples are taking the time to decide whether the step is even necessary.
“To me the whole thing was to have the family one spot to meet each other and acknowledge that it is a permanent situation,” says Brenda Kerber who married her partner of over five years at the age of the 36. Kerber represents a growing trend in Canada where people are getting married later in life. In 2000 the average age of women getting married was 31.7 as opposed to 25.9 in 1980. Couples are treating the decision to get married as more of a capstone after careers and economic priorities are set. Franki Harrogate had never set marriage as a priority in life, but realized that her partner was someone she could accomplish her goals with. “If it wasn’t him, it wouldn’t have been anyone,” says Harrogate.
The decision to get married is one couples are coming to later, but the decision is still rooted in the desire to publicly declare the joining of two lives and share in that celebration with family. “We wanted to have a public ceremony because we thought that it was a great opportunity to bring our communities together for a really wonderful occasion,” says Sakura Saunders. “It was as much about them as it was about us.”
Saunders married her partner in Toronto this past summer. As environmentalists and anarchists, the wedding was designed to not only be a celebration of the couple’s love, but also of the political beliefs that existed within their relationship.
The wedding took place in a public park with a critical mass bike ride to the wedding dinner that had been postered with radical messages of love and silk screened red anarchy hearts. “Having these highly visible messages made our wedding a demonstration promoting anarchy, which is just as much about dismantling state and corporate power as it is about mutual aid and love,” says Saunders. “It was also an opportunity to expose our family to a bit of rebellion and get them to engage with us in these liberating actions.”
Saunders’ wedding is just one example of how couples can challenge the traditional Western white wedding to more accurately reflect the political beliefs upon which a relationship is founded. The idea of giving a bride away, as property, can be a rather alarming thought these days. Religious tradition has created the giving away of the bride to mean the father has cared for his daughter and that responsibility is now transferred to the husband. Some families today see this tradition to mean the bride’s family approves of the groom, but its traditional roots, and the exclusion of one parent or the other can cause problems and troubling throwbacks for any feminist.
“We emphasized quite strongly the ideas of partnership and used words like spouse rather than man and wife,” says Harrogate who danced jointly down the aisle with her partner. “Our hands would support each other, clasped in partnership in our life together. No one person would be leading the other.”
Kerber and her partner decided to each walk down the aisle with a parent.
“The concept of giving the bride is repulsive to me,” says Kerber. “There was no way I was going to do it. At 36 years old I’m no one’s property.”
But Kerber didn’t want to hurt her father’s feelings and so came up with the idea to have her father walk her down the aisle and her partner’s mother walk him. “Equality was a big aspect for our wedding. We wrote the same vows. We were agreeing to the same thing and pledging the same thing,” says Kerber.
The way the ceremony and reception look can also reflect the political belief that weddings shouldn’t be consumerist affairs that can cost in the tens of thousands of dollars. Saunders and her partner bought wooden wedding rings instead of buying into the gold and diamond industry that violates human rights, expropriates indigenous lands and causes environmental devastation. And the couple integrated an alternative gift registry where, instead of buying presents, guests could volunteer to help with different aspects of the wedding.
Legally there are very few requirements that need to be included for the marriage to be official. To get married in Alberta, both parties must publicly state: “I do solemnly declare that I do not know of any lawful impediment why I, (name) may not be joined in matrimony to (name); I call upon those persons present to witness that I, (name), do take thee, (name) to be my lawful wedded wife/husband/spouse.” The statement must be made in front of a marriage commissioner—civil or religious—and two witnesses. Of course you must be of legal age, a citizen and not intend to marry your cousin (that’s a legal requirement) but outside of those rules, your public declaration of love can look however you’d like, and reflect whatever political beliefs are important to you as a couple.
Digging deeper, I found wedding picture of this wedding as seen below :
As you can see from these images, this event was the who who of the professional protester / criminal crowd .
Sakura and Darius were the two key figures who organized a recent activist assembly / conference in Ottawa . However, shortly after, a rather ominous message was sent by Sakura as seen here :
On its own, and to the uninitiated, it may not mean much. However, Sakura, as with all of these so called ” activists ” , their ego’s and the need to try and generate sympathy when they screw up is too great an opportunity for them to pass up . So, one simply has to be patient and the truth will usually come to those looking for it . Case in point. It appears that our favorite criminal, faketivist and ,professional protester and useless individual has been forced to leave Canada :
However, people always looking for new scams and places to hide for a while, to let things cool off a bit. Could Mexico be that cooling off place for them :
Remember, the Pan Am games are coming , and approaching fast . Sakura Saunders will at some point want to return back to Toronto. Also, she will want to be here again to protest here pet project, the Barrick Gold annual general meeting held every April or early may in Toronto. This is a tayler made opportunity for law enforcement to strike a strong, and very hard, decisive blow early against these professional protesters , as Sakura Saunders is their star, their queen so to speak. By denying her re-entry into Canada, it would be a huge demoralizer to the rest of these neanderthals and would certainly contribute to a far more peaceful year, especially for 2015. Sakura Saunders is GONE, at least for now, lets take steps to keep her out for GOOD .