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Originally Posted by Sliver
Nenshi's approach is bang on. If this was July he'd probably be handling it different, but in two weeks it could be -20 and they'll be gone. There is no reason whatsoever for a conflict with these r-tards and I think it undermines their dopey non-message even more by basically ignoring them.
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I totally agree. OccupyCalgary is proving nothing by hosting a bunch of homeless people in the park and dopey children at Olympic Plaza (I made the trip to Olympic Plaza and found basically what amounts to total full-blown communists, frosh post-secondary students still hormonal after reading Naomi Klein for the first time, or sophmore post-secondary students who have moved on to reading Chomsky). Their presence should be ignored by the press and the mayor should just keep on handing out bylaw tickets and sending the police to check up on them and maintain a presence until winter weather arrives and the movement dies a slow death. The last thing Nenshi needs to do is give them an outlet to their message by forcibly removing them and forcing the story back into the news.
McIver is a total hack talking about cracking skulls. Basically just an off the cuff comment unconstrained by actually being accountable to an elected office aimed at the Calgary Sun crowd.
FWIW I'm not really a Nenshi supporter but I agree with how this was handled.