Sunday, June 10, 2012

Grand Prix: Silly Canucks Conduct Semi-Nude Protest

(Semi)-Naked protesters flood Quebec streets before start of Montreal F1 Grand Prix
For months, Quebec’s students have been laying bare their grievances against Premier Jean Charest with nightly marches against the provincial government’s proposed tuition hikes and Special Law 78, the bill that was actually meant to end the protests.

But with negotiations stalled and nightly demonstrations dwindling in size, thousands of protesters last night shed their clothes and tried to crash a party on Montreal’s Crescent Street, the road most closely associated with this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, in a bid to resuscitate the flagging movement.
 Months go by in the cold weather of Montreal and no progress, but eventually it gets warm enough in Canuckistan to take their clothes off outside.  The fact that it interferes with the Grand Prix is just a bonus.  If I lived through winter in Montreal, I'd want to strip down to my underoos too.



The protests and media attention have already put a dent in the global sporting event, which usually generates an estimated $100 million in revenue for the city but this year has seen lagging ticket sales.

Protesters screamed at police and chanted slogans like “You’re sexy, you’re cute, take off your riot suit.” One held a sign that said “$ + sexe + pollution = Grand Prix.”
Amusing arithmetic. I wonder if the student is in a hard science.  I hope he/she is working on his/her burger flipping skills.
Protesters told reporters they were naked for a number of reasons; to show the government they have been transparent in their demands to freeze tuition fees, to garner more media attention to their cause, and to discourage police from handling them roughly.

“Our nudity expresses the demand for transparency,” a male student, clad only in gray cotton underwear said. “The government is masked. It conceals its own motives, as we have seen in the negotiations.”
Or it expresses the fact that you really are an attention whore.  I guess that make me an attention John?  I can live with that.
The student requested that his name not be printed for fear that his mother would find out he was taking part in the protests.

He doesn't mind parading semi-naked in the streets in a thong with a fleur-de-lis on it, but doesn't want his mother to see it? Bwahaahaa!

 Picked up in midweek by the Classical Liberal in "Rule 5 Forever".

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