Meow everyone. Well, this is it, the final segment of Occupy Toronto as I saw it. No doubt some who have read this will disagree with my take on what took place there and where I stand on certain issues and groups but then, what fun would life be if everyone agreed on everything. I hope you enjoyed reading as much I as I enjoyed telling the story.
Where does the future take us
With occupy Toronto, Decolonize and Idle No more in the books and decomposing, what are the future plans for these professional protestor malcontents? We need to first review what took place, Occupy Toronto FAILED because it was hijacked and turned into the private little fiefdom of a select few elite who had agendas that were secret, secret from what was a so called open and transparent movement. Decolonize FAILED because it was run by the same group of malcontents who wanted more power at the expense of every else. Idle No More FAILED because while it was started by four women who had legitimate concerns for their people, it was quickly hijacked and exploited by the same group of professional protestors who supported the criminality that was going on within certain communities. Idle No More FAILED because they allowed themselves to be hijacked by self serving professional protestors like Vasey and Winney who both uninterested in the real issues our aboriginal person have to face daily, as well as having no clue about what the issues really are. For people like Vasey and Saunders, it was all about inflated egos but greatly lacking the intellectual capacity to actually accomplish what they claimed they set out to do.
These professional protestors have short attention spans and in predictable fashion , were ready to move on to other projects. Sometimes, smaller projects are just what is needed to keep one active and keep connections intact and currant. Often times, these smaller projects are simply be their own pet projects. Sakura Saunders, as one example uses her protest Barrack Gold as her pet project. Indeed, April 24 is her day as this is the day she takes her protest ( this year ) to its highest level as Barrack Gold holds their annual shareholders meeting in Toronto. The usual protestors will be there and no doubt, she will have one or two persons enter under false pretences.
Dave Vasey has a pet project as well, the Line 9 anti pipeline project. Once again, these are only pet projects they use as diversionary actions to carry them over until something big comes along, and it’s coming. More on that later.
The unions are using their own methods to divert attention away from what they really have up their sleeves. The Porter Air strike is a meaningless, nothing strike onto itself, but this is being made into some major actions , once again to divert attention from real plans. It is my hypothesis that this Porter Air strike is actually a test bed to try new tactics by the professional protestors, as well, it appears to be a small training ground for new, up and coming anarchists, sort of like a laboratory where different experiments are conducted. ( stay tuned for my next series on the professional protestors fringe groups ) The Porter Airlines strike is, however, not al what it appears to be. Digging deeper into the people behind the airline and those who are protesting it, one clearly can see this strike is a back door into attacking other companies like Barrack Gold and attacking Israel. One look at the directorship of the airline , and then , looking at the various boards these directors sit on, one quickly will arrive at the true agenda for this strike / protest action.
So far, we have seen some of these professional protestors and anarchists drastically alter their appearances to avoid detection, or at the very least, to make identification harder. They didn’t fool me however J One note of some interest here is that on May 01 , our usual May Day parade, the march is planned to make its way to the Porter Air Strike from the city hall start location. This May Day event is organized by another notoriously violent fringe group called No One is Illegal.
The unions are in major plan mode even now. The Ontario Federation of Labor, yes, the organization run by slippery Sid Ryan has had several key meetings and conferences already to organize a major showdown. Most of the highest level anarchists, fringe group heads, student union leaders, occupy leaders / facilitators where present. The event was held at a stronghold of the most violent of the anarchists, OISE , a University of Toronto think tank. There was however, a second event held the same night that was an exclusive event for the heads and most loyal followers / leaders of the occupy Toronto movement, also at a University of Toronto facility. Just as a matter of interest, they hold the anarchist book fair there as well, so there is a very strong anarchist connection tied to the University. The university itself is no the issue here, it is a select group of highly radical students who attend there, that are problematic. The event in question was a seemingly innocent enough event, a birthday party for the person who the Occupy Gardens fringe group, Jacob Moreland. Everyone who was there is a devoutly loyal follower of Vasey et al. Vasey even held a small exercise that appears to the average person as an innocent little game but in fact, it is a training exercise use by the Rukus society as a means to encourage team work and trust.
I mentioned that these people and groups are planning something very big. There are two major events coming to Toronto as well as one major national event. In 2014 Toronto is hosting World Pride. In 2015 Toronto is hosting the Pan Am games with the national event also for 2015 being the federal elections. The unions are posturing for that even now, kowtowing to the NDP party / International socialists, and using agents to infiltrate currant running leadership contenders.
International socialist organizer Carolyn Egan
OCAP organizers John Clarke and Liisa Skofield
An array of professional protestors
Student union organizers
Union organizers
We saw this at a very recent Liberal Leadership convention at the metro convention center with Justin Trudeau being the over whelming favorite to win the leadership role. Other leadership candidates were on hand, as was at least one very high placed professional protestor who has attended and participated in several key events that lead up the significant violence.
At the beginning I said that for people like Vasey and Saunders, it was all about inflated egos but greatly lacking the intellectual capacity to actually accomplish what they claimed they set out to do. Case in point, Barrack Gold will be around long after Sakura Saunders. Barrack Gold did not become the worlds largest gold mining company because they quivered at the sight of Saunders and her band of bristol board carrying twits. As for Dave Vasey, the oil companies will be around long after he’s dead and forgotten about.
I have been saying the people like slippery Sid Ryan actually have plans for 2015. Well, don’t take my word for it. See it directly from the horses twitter feed:
A short time ago, there was yet another one of these meaningless, drivel filled protests, this time, against the Toronto Sun media group, because the professional protestors where called out for their fabricated stories and had their lie exposed and obliterated . So, in typical fashion, they organized a protest rally with about two hundred persons attending at the local offices of the Sun Media group, and did what they do best. They chanted useless drivel, which if you listened to it careful, they actually ended insulting themselves, they shouted at the building because after all, we all know that an inanimate structure does have the capacity to listen and respond. ….. NOT, but don’t tell these professional protestors that. They arrived with signs stapled to old broken hockey sticks, they wore their best protest outfits, reminiscent of the sixties, ( some of them smelled like it too ) They came armed with anger and wanted revenge. In the end, they ended acting in the exact fashion to which they claimed this media group was treating them. They called anyone and everything, racists, of course they had no proof. They never do. But then, in the professional protest world, why ruin a perfectly good, anger filled, protest by filling it with facts. A good, professional, protestor never allows facts get in the way of a good protest and slander campaign.
One of the main reporters came out of the building to start doing interviews and of course in typical protestor fashion , they tried to shout him down. It was funny to watch them attack and attack and attack ad nauseum yet the reporter could hardly contain his laughter at the idiocy of these protestors. The spectacle alone was worth the price of admission. One guy wants to beat the reporter to a pulp, another protestors wants to hit him over the head with his sign, one protestor was so stoned he could hardly stand up under his own power. Yes, true to form these protestors did accomplish exactly what they have done from day one, absolutely nothing. The show was decent enough though. Of course there was a splattering of protestors of all kinds. The little old ladies who asked polite questions, the hippies who would rather get stoned and were there because they had nothing else to do for a few hours, ( don’t they get the munchies anymore ? ) to the always entertaining black bloc anarchists. You always get a good show from them. No, they will not always go and smash stuff up, but when they are not smashing things up, the quality of the name calling alone is worth at least one or two Oscars. These black bloc idiots can hold their own against any six year old who is just about to start their first class in grade one.
For a group who claimed to be a part of Occupy, one thing they should have spent more time occupying, is a classroom, a shower and a clothing store. ( not that I am Mr. Fashion ) Of course, when all was seemingly lost and the protestors were all out of intelligent questions, ( which would be after the first question ) , they resorted to their old standby, FUCK YOU . Well, I don’t claim to understand this bunch of Neanderthals, but my guess, albeit hastily arrived at, is that telling the media guy to FUCK YOU is not likely to garner any level of support and bring in allies. Oh, wait, I am assuming that these Neanderthals can actually think for themselves, silly me. It is exceptionally clear that the only thing idle here, with this bunch, are their brains, for those who actually possess any appreciable cranial matter. Great leaping kitty cats, it just occurred to me, Judy Rebbick might write another one of her books, this time, about Idle No more. Well, at least she will also create a whole new industry, of bird cage liners. I can see the title now, “ Occupy This, the blockade of brain cells “. Hopefully, she will write this mélange of clap trap using small, little words, four letters or less, to allow even Krystalline Kraus to understand it.
Whether it’s Occupy Toronto, Decolonize, the Student protests, Idle No More, it makes no difference to these professional protestors. To them the buzz word is “ Social Justice. “ It always made me laugh rather boisterously when ever I heard the term “ social justice “ because these guys have absolutely no concept of what justice actually is. I have always wondered who bestowed some special power to these people to enact some brand of justice anyway. It is laughable that these people actually think they have the power, and the intellectual capacity, to not only understand what justice really is and how it must be not only fair and well thought out with checks and balances, but then to dispense it. Justice must be fair, it must be based on the premises that all sides have had their opportunity to present their case, before a legal authority as recognized by the state. Its not social justice these protestors want, its absolute anarchy they seek. It appears that anarchy , regardless of form it takes, what name it wishes to give itself comes with a shelf life. Case in point. I received a twitter feed message a short time ago about the possibility of the genesis of yet another new flavor of the month protest or series of protests. It seems as if, as predicted, the idle No more band wagon is losing it appeal and obviously by now, the public is onto the scam that idle No More has become. Support is dwindling faster than an anarchist supply of spray paint. While this is the first message out there, as far as I am aware, it appears that the new flavor of the month is to be along the lines of Confront Climate Change. Now, if these professional protestors can do something about the cold here in Toronto and protest until it gets to about 70 degrees F, and actually achieve the temps I desire, they just might get even my support. I wonder if Trey Winney will be sent out to blockade the snow and cold.
Like any really bad nightmare, the Occupy Toronto protestors went from bad to pathetic in almost no time. They started with allies and turned them into enemies. They went from a household word, to the definition of a pariah. Even the unions who slept with occupy Toronto, divorced them faster than a Brittany Spears marriage. The coup de gras came on January 26 of 2013 when the unions organized what was to be a huge protest for the leadership of the liberal party of Ontario. They came by the thousands, about twelve to fifteen thousand in total. They came from the left, they came from the right, the middle ground showed up and for the most part, it was a schmooze fest where everyone hugged and kissed each other in so called solidarity against the government. In their usual fashion, OCAP was pissed off, the anarchists were angry ( aren’t they always ? ) and the confused remained confused. The anarchists tried their very best to intimidate people once again , but as usual, the moment people started to speak, using big and intellectual sounding words, the anarchists got confused and had to regroup. One of the best lines from the days event came from Greg when he and I were at the park where the protest was taking place. We were trying to engage one of the anarchists into a conversation, however, it proved to be a worthless endeavor. The anarchist in Question, Doug Kynikos seemed greatly confused when we tried to discuss respectful discussion. Greg and I agreed that we needed to move and look for intelligent life. Greg immediately noticed such an intelligent life form, a squirrel. Doug could learn a lot from that creature. Personal hygiene is the first thing that comes to mind.
There were the usual speeches from people like fast Freddie Haun , the Ontario head of CUPE and slippery Sid Ryan the head of the Ontario Federation Labor. I wonder, do these guys get paid by the word on a per speech basis? I don’t ever recall hearing to much of absolutely nothing as what I heard this day, the same thing with each speech, over and over again. If their high pitched whine wasn’t going to induce vomiting, surly what they had to say would. I have to wonder if Krystalline Kraus is their speech writer, because like her articles in rabble.ca, their speeches were about as nauseating, thoughtless and drivel filled.
Only about a year ago, the unions were kissing the proverbial ass of Occupy Toronto. On January 26, 2013, the unions didn’t even acknowledge the existence of Occupy Toronto in any of their less than memorable, if not outright nauseating speeches. With the exception of two or three of the original Occupy Toronto crowd, all the others were very noticeably absent from this event. Even the flavor of the month, Idle No More was barely there, save for maybe four or five persons. Oh, wait, I forgot, the Idle No More bandwagon was doing some water ceremony and according to Krystalline Kraus , no one was allowed to leave until the water ferries told them they can leave. Let this be a reminder to you children, those evil cigarettes and whacky tabacy will get you every time. I am fully expecting that the next Idle No More protest will pay tribute to the unicorn and leprechauns.
Occupy Toronto failed in very much the same manner as the G20 protestors failed, as did Decolonize failed, as did Idle No more failed as will everything these professional protestors will ever do, fail. In all cases, the leaders themselves were, and continue to be, the architects of their own demise. They directly created the very problems they claimed to be protesting, by their actions. Occupy Toronto went so far as to alienate even the most hard core activists by their actions. Rather than try and mend fences with those they have hurt, they, instead took great pains to create even greater rifts between themselves, the public and even the police who went out of their way to show their very best side. Yes, even the police were hurt by what took place during the G20. Every single officer on the Toronto Police force was now going to be under the most intense microscope where those looking for some sort of perverted personal vindication were going to look for even the most miniscule infraction by the police and make a media circus out of something that would have been otherwise nothing.
Occupy Toronto even took pains to turn their collective backs on the very people whom just a few short months ago, they took great pains to exploit. Those persons without homes were seemingly made welcome at the park encampment, even so far as canonized, for being the reason occupy existed in the first place, some even staying with the Occupy movement after its eviction. However, these same persons were largely ignored and forgotten about by these same leaders / facilitators. The persons who had no homes made their own encampments in other parks, ravines and even some private spaces for a while, yet, these so called leaders / facilitators were far too busy kissing union asses, or trying to stay nice and warm in their forest hill homes to even bother to visit the very people they took great pains to exploit just a few months prior.
The Occupy Toronto leaders / facilitators are the text book example of what a hypocrite and hypocrisy looks like, if one where to put a face to hypocrisy. In many cases these persons still outside had little to no food or clean water. I know that myself and others who really did care were not going to watch people starve and suffer so yes, a few bucks when it can be afforded was not an issue. To me, human life has a far greater value than political ideals. As badly as I and others were treated by Occupy Toronto leaders / facilitators, these persons who were ignored by them ( them being the leaders / facilitators ) treated us with dignity and respect.
Occupy Toronto started with grand and lofty ambitions, as does every professional protestor and their intended target, but soon after, they realize that their grandiose plans have ways of heading into their own directions. These leaders / facilitators where either not able to see this, or simply refused to look at and address possible pitfalls, and indeed, fell into the trap of thinking that they were going to control every variable as they arose. In the end, it was their own egos that took control and once egos showed up, all was lost, and lost beyond any hope of recovery. It was the other enemy that prevented them , however , from seeing this, the every present and all powerful, ignorance.
The leaders / facilitators thought they were better than everyone else, their arrogance had a stench greater than the overflowing porto-potties and it seemed as if they were the only ones who where oblivious to its overpowering and nauseating fumes. These professional protestors thought that because they spend most of their adult lives doing nothing but protesting “ the man’ , they knew it all. They failed to take into account that there were many there who were far and away, infinitely more intelligent they these leaders / facilitators were ever going to be and can see clearly that this occupy thing was heading down the irreversible road of doom, before it got off the ground. These leaders didn’t care, as they were going to be paid regardless of the outcome. The only variable in play was the number of new cult members they would gain, the number of ruined lives they would leave in their wake.
Toronto was an angry city over the G20 and these professional protestors were going to try and capitalize on that anger, They failed. As angry as the citizens were of what took place at and during the G20, that anger was actually anger towards those who perpetrated these crimes. This cities peace and trust was ruined by professional protestors with no ambitions but to destroy what hopes existed in other people. These professional protestors had nothing to show for their years of protesting and rather than try and make whatever they can to be a positive contributor to society, they, rather, took out their anger on anyone and everyone who had accomplished something, accomplished anything. If you were well educated, you were a target. If you had a good job, you were a target. If you made sound financial decisions, you were a target. If you lived in a house, owned a car, had a business, yup, you were a target.
I mentioned that some had fallen. One of the persons who attacked Greg was , I am happy to report, finally arrested. Several of the former persons from Occupy Toronto were able to find homes to call their own. Some, like Trey Winney “ drank the kool aid “ and became yet another statistic in the world of cult indoctrination. In Trey’s case, he went back for seconds. In a way, I am happy that he is doing that he thinks is, at least, in his belief , a worth while endeavor. I just hope that his aspirations do not land him inside a prison cell, or worse.
Dave Vasey, Sakura Saunders and company continue to live in a world of make belief and fairy tails where they really think that they will be able to single handedly convince people they ( Vasey et al ) are right. I am guessing, as well, they are still waiting for the wedding invitation between Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. I think I will buy them each a pair of tights and a color marched cape. On second thought, I will spend that money and invest it in stocks and bonds. I hear that Barrack Gold stocks are going to do well this year. One thing is for sure, I will not be buying any of Rebbicks books, no need to, as I don’t have a bird cage that needs lining.
Occupy Toronto did have one very positive after effect. It brought together some like minded persons who would become fast friends, hopefully, long lasting. So to the friends made during this series of encounters and events, we went for a ride and came back stronger, smarter, a little more wise and certainly more aware. I learned a great deal from each of you and I hope that I have become a little smarter as a result and continue to grow, to be a slightly better person as a result of my associations with each of you. Thanks, I couldn’t have done with out y’all.
Lastly, to those who are, or wish to be, my detractors, I have this to say. I don’t care about being liked or being popular. I am not here to win a popularity contest . If I wanted to be liked or worshiped, I would have been a rock star and then y’ all would be worshiping the ground I walked upon. I am not, nor ever will be politically correct. If you want politically correct, call a politician, I have never been or ever will be diplomatic. If you wanted a diplomat call one. I call it as I see it, tell it like it is. I will not change who I am just to suit some one else’s idea of what or whom I should be , for if I complied to everyone’s idea , I would no longer be myself but rather all I would be is some part of some one else’s, desire. NO THANKS. I am true to myself and I will stay that way. If you like it, great, if you don’t like it, equally great, see you , and as you leave, don’t let the door hit on the ass on the way out.
Thee you have it, Occupy Toronto in a nut shell. A pointless exercise, that accomplished nothing, other than creating animosities as opposed to allies. However, Occupy is not the only movement to accomplish nothing. My next series will a no holds barred look at the various major, ultra left wing, fringe groups and what they claim to do, as opposed to what they actually do. Stay tuned ……………..
So then , where does OCAP get it money from. We don’t have to look very far to find out. OCAP funding is only known to John Clarke but has been generally acknowledge by him to be from some CAW locals, CUPE and their members, individuals and from the sale of native reservation cigarettes. Supposedly the finances of OCAP are overseen by the Executive Committee, but as at fundraising events the money goes straight into Clarke’s pocket, it is unknown if the amounts are accountable to anybody but John Clarke.
However, while OCAP love to claim it represent the poor people of this city, here is actually what they REALLY think , based on their actions. They want POOR people who are already hit hard financially to get hit even harder by supporting them through such fundraisers. Real classy there John.
Actually John Clarke not only wants you to support these fundraisers, we also wants YOU to help him get CPP and a pension. What? You think I’m joking? Well, read for yourself in his own words:
Hey, Johnny Ol’ boy, if you want CPP and a pension, here is a really novel idea, get a friggin job where they provide same and stop using the most vulnerable people in this city as your cannon fodder and your personal financial support system.
