XPost: bc.politics, van.general, vic.general   
   From: alangbaker@telus.net   
      
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    ConsÑ`cons <" Cons"@cdn.ca> wrote:   
      
   > >> On 1/15/2013 1:54 PM, Alan Baker wrote:   
   > >>> I understood it fine. Your implication is that because they can't attend   
   > >>> in person this equates to some loss of democratic freedom.   
   >   
   > >> Yeah, well, a more bright person than yourself would have taken a clue   
   > >> from this little bit of news:   
   > >>   
   > >>>> Police have arrested six protesters who refused to leave the meeting   
   > >>>> room at the Northern Gateway pipeline hearings underway in Vancouver   
   > >>>> this morning.		   
   > >>   
   > >> "Democratic freedom" - ala your little mind.   
   >   
   >   
   > On 1/15/2013 2:06 PM, Alan Baker wrote:   
   > > Arrested as they should have been.   
   > >   
   > > Access to the process doesn't have to be in person, Karen.   
   >   
   > Especially if that's what the people want.  And the Harper government   
   > does not.   
      
   Sorry, but you've not shown that it is what the people want.   
      
   >   
   > You make a good little minion for the oppressive Harper government.   
   > Send him your resume.  Maybe he'll hire you to corral protesters on  the   
   > streets of Vancouver - or is it Burnaby?   
      
   He hasn't oppressed anyone in this, Karen.   
      
   And it's Kitsilano; the same place it's been for nearly 20 years.   
      
   :-)   
      
   --   
   Alan Baker   
   Vancouver, British Columbia   
   "If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall   
   to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you   
   sit in the bottom of that cupboard."   
      
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